Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama’s slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year’s congressional races and may even threaten their House control.
Fifty-four new Democrats were swept into the House in 2006 and 2008, helping the party claim a decisive majority as voters soured on a Republican president and embraced Obama’s message of hope and change. Many of the new Democrats are in districts carried by Republican John McCain in last year’s presidential contest; others are in traditional swing districts that have proved tough for either party to hold.
From New Hampshire to Nevada, House Democrats also will be forced to defend votes on Obama’s $787 billion economic recovery package and on energy legislation viewed by many as a job killer in an already weak economy.
The Tea party movement is not tied to a party nor are they agreed on what to do in all respects but they do want to be listened to and treated with respect. They want a halt to wastrel spending and government growth at least for now.
The Dems have dumped all over them. A lot of them aren’t going to come back unless somebody else is at least as foolish.
I’m not sure how many Republicans can hitch their wagons to this rebellion against the socialist/elitist. To many of them have bad track records.
I know Nancy P. and friends have made themselves the targets of an ocean of ill will.
While Obama is much more likable he’s coming off as a long legged Mac Daddy. That is somebody who says a lot of things you know he knows isn’t true to try and con you into going along with what he really wants to do.
I heard a lot of people who say they support his cause say they don’t believe what he says.
I will merely note that the future isn’t going to be what we expect. Everybody still has plenty of time to bleep up in completely unexpected ways.
For one thing the situation in the middle east is not stable and most of us aren’t even thinking about that; then the New York cops arrested some would be terrorist so we may get unlucky and get hit again… Lot’s of cess still to happen before the next national elections.
Seems to me that the Dems didn’t win in 08 rather, the Repubs lost. Perhaps the dilema for voters in 2010 will be a choise between Repulicans that are not trustworthy enough to adhere to their principles and Democrats that can always be trusted to ardently persue theirs.
#81 Insightful post.
Although Rush Limbaugh is scrambling to have us go Republican, arguing a third party only insures the statists will will…
It depends on whose running…
If conditions continue to deteriorate (as those who foresaw the meltdown, predict)…all those who voted for the bailouts etc will be toast…both parties…
Just as the Republican party arose in a unique time in history…its possible a new party could arise…one uniting Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, conservatives…all having the common ground of LOVE FOR FREEDOM…
We don’t like Government telling us what to do…we tell it what to do…
Screw them…they have no business telling me what to smoke, eat, drink, how much to exercise, whether my grandmother can have a pacemaker…etc etc…who the f@@@@ are they?
Their stupid theories of what is healthy, will be change next week…their bogus theories of what will happen in weather 10 years from now…contradicted by their inability to predict what the weather will be next week…
They are, without a doubt, the most egotistical MORONS I have ever seen.
Of course the Democrats will lose seats – it’s just a statistical reality. Will they get blown off? I doubt it. Trends move slowly, it took years of Republican bumbling for Dems to get and hold the line
Americans hate other Americans so passionately, it’s not surprising Americans hate everyone else in the world too.
Why don’t half of you put on blue hats and half of you put on red hats and then just get on with killing each other until there’s no-one left?
The rest of us could use the peace and quiet and if we happen to wear rags on our heads, we’ll all feel a lot safer too.
Yours Truly,
The Rest Of The World
If the GOP takes power, the country is screwed. In only 8 years they took us from prosperity to veritable poverty. If Congress falls to the psychotic right, we will be the richest 3rd world nation in the world.