Rough week for Democrats

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

As for Rubio, Rasmussen is the only major poll showing Rubio beating Meek, whereas every poll shows Crist beating Meek. Take your chances with Rubio, please.

New Rasmussen poll out today. Rubio over Meek in the general, +17. Rubio over Crist in the primary, +12.

This of course follows a Quinnipiac poll a few days prior showing Rubio +3 on Crist, and +9 on Meek.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Republicans have no plan, no focus, no anything (other than Steele, the Dems not so secret weapon, leading their counterattack), and all the passion of the Republican base is being directed at eliminating moderate Republican candidates in the primaries who can't win in the general election.

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Scozzafava, Rubio, Patrick Hughes (to beat Kirk), Mike Lee to beat Bennett, etc.

Mark Kirk won the GOP Illinois Senate primary last night, beating Patrick Hughes 56-19%.

What was that about "all the passion" again?

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Tex

Sure, because Obama will sign anything with the word "Reform" on the bill no matter what's in it. It will most certainly be some watered-down version of it now, and it will have come at an extremely high political cost.

Bump.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

this is almost worthy of adding to my signature.

Bump.

[MikeWaters]

The piper will be payed. Mark my words.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

All Republicans are getting a polling bump right now. Get back to me in November.

As you wish.

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

... all the passion of the Republican base is being directed at eliminating moderate Republican candidates in the primaries who can't win in the general election.

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

... the tea partiers are doing everything in their power to promote candidates who are less electable in the general than the current party candidate.

Hmmm. Such as?

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Scozzafava, Rubio, Patrick Hughes (to beat Kirk), Mike Lee to beat Bennett, etc.

Let's see ...

Scozzafava didn't run.
Kirk in primary, Kirk in general, 48-46%. And Obama's old seat, to boot.
Lee in caucus, Lee in the general. 62-33%.
And Rubio?

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Take your chances with Rubio, please.

Done. Hello, Senator Rubio, 49% in a 3-man race!

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

You and your fellow tea partiers are one of the best thing to happen to Dem election fortunes this year.

I don't think I have ever met a cockier person with a worse grasp of the American electorate.

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

And yes, it is a very good year to be a Democrat. Perhaps the best year in decades ...

60+ seat gain in the House, bigger than 1994; bigger than 2006 and 2008 combined. 6 more in the Senate, not a single Republican seat lost. At least 9 new governorships and 19 additional state chambers (hello redistricting). Major red across Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and pretty much the entire mid-west. Not an endorsement of Republicans, but an express rejection of Obama.

Congratulations on your best Democrat year in decades. You can change the world.



Dedicated to the memory of PaloAltoCougar.

[MikeWaters]

Is it any surprise these insufferable morons jumped ship and didn't show up to the polls to vote for Obama's stooges? This really is an idiocracy.

So is PAC literally dead, or is just a figurative thing that he is dead to cougarguard? I'm still embarrassed for him over his endorsement of Obama as the wise man to lead this country.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Is it any surprise these insufferable morons jumped ship and didn't show up to the polls to vote for Obama's stooges? This really is an idiocracy.

So is PAC literally dead, or is just a figurative thing that he is dead to cougarguard? I'm still embarrassed for him over his endorsement of Obama as the wise man to lead this country.

I meant it as a figure of speech. I assume PAC is alive and well.

There are several interesting stories that have come out of this election. But the funnest one to me is this: if a Republican wins the presidency in 2012, they will almost assuredly also retake the Senate. There are too many Dems in red states to survive another Republican election. So there is the potential for a completely Republican controlled gov't in 2012. After '06 and especially '08, that seemed totally unthinkable.

In any case, new extreme liberal/socialist policies like the health care bill are now officially dead for at least the next two years, and likely much longer.

That's something to cheer.

[MikeWaters]

I'm interested in how the congress is going to take on the healthcare thing. They can't repeal it, but they can just not appropriate any funds for it in the spending bills. That's going to lead to a huge standoff. We know how the standoff went for Gingrich, with the govt. shutdown and all.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I'm interested in how the congress is going to take on the healthcare thing. They can't repeal it, but they can just not appropriate any funds for it in the spending bills. That's going to lead to a huge standoff. We know how the standoff went for Gingrich, with the govt. shutdown and all.

I think this is a very different environment from 1995.