Posted on 10/24/2006, 12:59:55 AM by Mobile Vulgus
Testing a Theory...
By now, we have all seen this business where the Media Dinosaurs are touting the upcoming midterm elections as already in the bag for the Democrats. But, we are also starting, just this week, to see stories disputing that assumption.
Rove and Bush are said to be strangely buoyant and upbeat about the chances of the GOP keeping their majorities. Several pundits and magazines as well as some pollsters are beginning to say that, while the GOP will lose some seats, the Party won't lose all power in some great midterm Democratic landslide.
So the question becomes, how could all the leftist pundits, poll skewers and Democratic Party fellow travelers be so far off with their predictions for a total Demo take over?
Maybe they aren't. Well, not in private anyway. Maybe they have known all along that this is going to be but a mildly successful Democrat Party election, with the Dems taking a few seats in both houses of Congress. But maybe they know full well that this won't be a tidal wave of Demo success.
And, maybe they are misreporting it all on purpose?
Why would they do that, you ask? To further the false claims they have spouted since the 2000 election that the system is "rigged" against them, that's why. They know full well that the American electorate has been leaning centrist to moderately conservative since 1980 and they also know full well that their ideas are dragging them further left every year.
So, how do they reconcile their steady decline as a leading Party in the country? Do they alter their stance and drive to the middle to try and satisfy the electorate? No, they drive further to the left and then try to blame the system for rigged elections.
So, perhaps this whole mantra of a Demo landslide is being misreported so that when it doesn't actually occur the left can then come back and claim that it is all just more "proof" that the system is rigged against them.
Again, why do that? Well, if the Dems can undermine the trust people have in the system, this will alienate moderates -- or swing vote -- who might stop voting out of disgust (taking part of the GOP's votes with them in the process) and they can anger their base enough to come out full force to "get even" with the evil Republicans who are rigging the vote.
Scotching the centrist vote in a time when elections are so often won by 3 and 4 percentage points is quite an interesting and possibly successful strategy. Get rid of the people that could vote either way and gin up your base with inflammatory claims of GOP vote fraud and you get a won election as well as the elbow room to continue your drift left without being slapped by the electorate for it.
And who can doubt that the mainstream media would fall all over themselves to assist such a plan? Or, if they aren't necessarily in on the plan from the beginning, who can doubt they will at least be inclined to slavishly report Democratic Party happy-talk since they so lovingly root for their pals in the DNC anyway?
So, there goes my theory. The MSM and the Demos are over reporting a success in November so that they can then come back afterwards, after it doesn't pan out, and say they have further proof that the system is "broken" and "rigged" against them in order to drives centrist or moderate voters out of the electorate. This, in turn, will eliminate enough GOP votes and pump up their own base enough to win close elections in the future.
The Dems are trying at their own concept of a "Rovian battle plan". Unfortunately it is a plan that doesn't deal honestly with the electorate. But who could be surprised at that?
THEY ARE SCARED SO THEY THINK IF THEY WOULD WIN THEY WOULD FEEL BETTER BUT GUESS WHAT......
THEY ARE LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VOTE REPUBLICAN VOTE REPUBLICAN VOTE REPUBLICAN
So when they steal an election no one will question it.
Goes along with the saying perception is reality.
Or at least the Democrats and drive by media hope.
They did that w/ John Kerry, too, before they accepted defeat. LOL
Well I absolutely think that in private Democratic meetings they are worried and pushing the MSM to flood the next 2 weeks with Diebold/touchscreen/election fraud stories. They will certainly fall back on that if/when they don't win. As to the theory on alienating voters b/c the system is rigged, the only ones that will be alienated are the ones who will claim the system is rigged against them.
I believe that the more they scream about "rigged" elections, the more they will lose.
Dick Morris is on Hannity right now saying that the republicans are starting to rebound in the polls and the tide may be turning back our way!
Why are the Dems Already Claiming Victory?
for the same reason that the republicans are claiming the same......................
because not a single vote has been counted yet...............
It's not a theory....they've already tried it 3 times since 2000.
Very weak. If not for the mushy middle of old fashioned, yellow-dog dems who are both patriotic and conservative in their core, the current leftist whack jobs who are the democratic leadership, would have no chance at all.
In fact, I keep trying to post here the results of the last poll that counted, the red/blue state map. When I look at that, I see that the only way the dems can regain power is for most of America not to vote.
As I have said before, the fact that myself and a bunch of other idiots voted for Perot to "teach republicans a lesson" should be lesson enough for all of us.
To my fellow conservatives: Please, vote. If you do, we all win. If you don't, we all lose, more than we can possibly afford.
Howard Dean isn't smart enough to pull this off. He may be a doctor but as a political strategist, he's an idiot.
Karl Rove may be the public face of the Republican Party, but Ken Mehlman is great in the trenches.
MSM is trying their best to influence an election without realizing how little influence they have any more.
Do I like all Republican policies? Nope, far from it. However, getting 60% of what I agree with is far better than what I'd get from Democrats and I don't think I'm that far out of the mainstream in thinking that way.
It hasn't worked in the past 8 years. I believe the American public knows which party "rigs" elections.
What is "very weak"? The theory or the Democrats?
That guy flip flops more than Kerry
If you think like I do, we were never behind and it was all MEDIA-DRIVEN BS. Phony scandals, racist remarks that never happened, ignoring DUmocrat corruption and scandal are all signs that they know they have already aborted their chances at re-taking control.
They'll lie solidly for the next two weeks, slinging mud until something sticks.
The leftist press (aka MSM) doesn't report news. It beats the drums of leftist propaganda.
They Dems have been for YEARS trying to change the rules of how we do our elections
They hate the Electoral Voting process and want candidates to be elected by POPULAR VOTE
This is more about 2008 then it is 2006
they did the same thing in 2004 and 2002. its an old trick to keep voter home
Don't yell. Don't yell. Don't yell. Turn off the Caps Lock key.
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