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IMHO: GOP Tsunami?
Oct. 26th, 2010 11:23 amBy now, it's fairly obvious that the Democrats are going to get shellacked nationwide in next week's election. The odds are even 1 in 5 that the Republicans will take back the majority party position in the Senate.
Most of the readers here are shaking their heads, saying, "Don't voters remember who caused this mess?"
Yes. Yes, they do.
"Independents" are those people in the middle of the bell curve. They are not ideologs, they don't subscribe to theories, they want results they can touch.
And the Obama administration looked at the gigantic recession and Wall Street collapse around the housing market house-of-cards, and said, "Let's work on health care!".
The folks in the middle of the bell curve, who catapulted Obama into the White House with a landslide victory, didn't care about that. They wanted him to fix what Bush broke, not spend the better part of a year on a side issue.
No, your arguments that this is a long-term fix that will eventually help the economy have no effect here.
What those folks in the middle saw was that the "Other Guy" they voted for abandoned them, in favor of some tail-of-bell-curve thing they didn't care about.
Most of the readers here are shaking their heads, saying, "Don't voters remember who caused this mess?"
Yes. Yes, they do.
The final Politico/George Washington University Battleground Poll before voting Nov. 2 shows the GOP with a 14-point edge among independents — the group largely responsible for the Obama/Democratic wave two years ago — and a five-point lead in the bellwether generic ballot matchup. The Republican lead swells to 12 points in the generic ballot among those "extremely likely" to vote.
"Independents" are those people in the middle of the bell curve. They are not ideologs, they don't subscribe to theories, they want results they can touch.
And the Obama administration looked at the gigantic recession and Wall Street collapse around the housing market house-of-cards, and said, "Let's work on health care!".
The folks in the middle of the bell curve, who catapulted Obama into the White House with a landslide victory, didn't care about that. They wanted him to fix what Bush broke, not spend the better part of a year on a side issue.
No, your arguments that this is a long-term fix that will eventually help the economy have no effect here.
Independents are helping build Republican momentum, rising from just 29 percent who said they backed or leaned toward the GOP around Labor Day to 44 percent now.
On individual issues independents are siding with Republicans, including health care (62 percent dislike Obamacare), the economy (66 percent say the Democrats' policies aren't working) and overall governance (69 percent say they have less faith in Washington now than they did before Obama's election).
What those folks in the middle saw was that the "Other Guy" they voted for abandoned them, in favor of some tail-of-bell-curve thing they didn't care about.
