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TOPIC: "A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP" (Scott Rasmussen, WSJ, 11/1/10)


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"A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP" (Scott Rasmussen, WSJ, 11/1/10)
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Read @ WSJ
(Emphasis added)

A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP

Voters don't want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves.

In the first week of January 2010, Rasmussen Reports showed Republicans with a nine-point lead on the generic congressional ballot. Scott Brown delivered a stunning upset in the Massachusetts special U.S. Senate election a couple of weeks later.

In the last week of October 2010, Rasmussen Reports again showed Republicans with a nine-point lead on the generic ballot. And tomorrow Republicans will send more Republicans to Congress than at any time in the past 80 years.

This isn't a wave, it's a tidal shift—and we've seen it coming for a long time. Remarkably, there have been plenty of warning signs over the past two years, but Democratic leaders ignored them. At least the captain of the Titanic tried to miss the iceberg. Congressional Democrats aimed right for it.

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But none of this means that Republicans are winning. The reality is that voters in 2010 are doing the same thing they did in 2006 and 2008: They are voting against the party in power.

This is the continuation of a trend that began nearly 20 years ago. In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected president and his party had control of Congress. Before he left office, his party lost control. Then, in 2000, George W. Bush came to power, and his party controlled Congress. But like Mr. Clinton before him, Mr. Bush saw his party lose control.

That's never happened before in back-to-back administrations. The Obama administration appears poised to make it three in a row. This reflects a fundamental rejection of both political parties.

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Elected politicians also should leave their ideological baggage behind because voters don't want to be governed from the left, the right, or even the center. They want someone in Washington who understands that the American people want to govern themselves.

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Very good summary.

No matter who is fueling which ads... bottomline, neither party is liked anymore.

Now, I especially like that concluding paragraph.  And, I wonder how likely it is that this set of politicians will govern BY THE PEOPLE.... when they are all beholden to special interests already and we cannot even challenge them as most of that special interests are not even known.



-- Edited by Sanders on Monday 1st of November 2010 03:04:03 AM

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Thanks to the PUMAs and the Tea Party for casting these against the Dems, not-for-the-GOP votes.

Interesting line at the very end of that article about a book Scott Rasmussen wrote also: Mr. Rasmussen is president of Rasmussen Reports and co-author of "Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System" (HarperCollins, 2010).

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I can't help but wonder what Donna Brazille is going to think tomorrow night since she told Hillary supporters to "get over it" and the party didn't need its moderates anymore.

I think her, Pelosi, and Dean need to be held accountable for the fraud the pulled on this nation.

But more important, I think the voters will send a message that we will not put up with the hard partisinship of either side.  And the Republicans better wake up to that reality in a huge hurry. 

The independents are ruling the elections and won't hesitate to bounce them on their collective ears if they try to push us too far to the right.

A nice thank-you they could send to the independents should they win tomorrow....end the ridiculous DADT.

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