Politico: 'The Horizon Is As Bleak For Democrats As It Ever Has Been'

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Politico: 'The Horizon Is As Bleak For Democrats As It Ever Has Been' By Noel Sheppard Created 08/30/2010 - 23:56

Politico Monday evening ran the following headline:

Tidal Wave? 10-point Poll Edge for GOP

Inside, the news [1] wasn't much better for the liberal press:

The Gallup poll, coming at the end of a brutal August for Democrats and President Barack Obama, reinforces the rapidly forming prevailing view that the horizon is as bleak for Democrats as it ever has been.

The headline of the Gallup poll in question was also sure to elicit gasps in newsrooms from coast to coast:

GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot

So will the opening paragraph:

Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP's largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup's history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress.

The rest of the article [2] was full of other nuggets destined to ruin a lot of liberal media member's days tomorrow:

The Republican leads of 6, 7, and 10 points this month are all higher than any previous midterm Republican advantage in Gallup's history of tracking the generic ballot [3], which dates to 1942. Prior to this year, the highest such gap was five points, measured in June 2002 and July 1994. Elections in both of these years resulted in significant Republican gains in House seats.

The news continued to worsen for left-leaning journalists:

Republicans are now twice as likely as Democrats to be "very" enthusiastic about voting, and now hold -- by one point -- the largest such advantage of the year. [...]

The last Gallup weekly generic ballot average before Labor Day underscores the fast-evolving conventional wisdom that the GOP is poised to make significant gains in this fall's midterm congressional elections. Gallup's generic ballot has historically proven an excellent predictor of the national vote for Congress, and the national vote in turn is an excellent predictor of House seats won and lost. Republicans' presumed turnout advantage, combined with their current 10-point registered-voter lead, suggests the potential for a major "wave" election in which the Republicans gain a large number of seats from the Democrats and in the process take back control of the House.

This poll was released late in the afternoon Monday. As such, there isn't a huge amount of reporting on it yet.

How will this stunner get covered in the next 24 hours?

Stay tuned.

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NOVEMBER.....

[newfreep]

1. October surprise
2. Voter fraud

The socialist ‘rats will not go quietly into the night.

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when you look at what all they have done in the last 4 years, you have to wonder how anyone in their right mind could ever elect another one

[Pollster1]

The Horizon Is As Bleak For Democrats As It Ever Has Been'

This is true because the horizon is as bleak For America as it ever has been. I still believe that freedom will win over the next few years, but I am less certain than ever before. I pray daily that Obama will finish four years in our White House, long enough that the voters who made that horrible decision will learn from the extended misery caused by their mistake and never again vote for socialism or for liberalism. This is the deciding decade in America's history, far more dangerous than an external enemy like Hitler or Stalin.

[prisoner6]

Anyone else think that most of the MSM stories of impending doom for the rats are a tactic to keep the conservative turnout low in Novemeber?

[who knows what evil?]

That’s possible; but so many conservatives want to take personal responsibility for sending the Democrats down to defeat that it won’t matter HOW big a lead Republicans have...they are going to vote. ‘Piling on’ is only considered unethical in sports... :-)

[Son House]

Stir up the base with worry over evil Republicans

[Huebolt]

The entire election process is another arm of the government. Another Franken-stein maneuver is certain. History shows a ruling class is rarely unseated without a lot of chaos and unrest.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

It is amazing to me the absolute shock... amongst the GOP. The Republican Party not only has everything to run on (positive message) and everything to run against (negative message), but they also have that fabled aura of “inevitability” that every campaigner seeks to create.

And yet? Where is the Republican Party? The way Gingrich organized 1994 was by running as a Party. It was a team effort. It was “We are Republicans and this is what we stand for”.

Where is that today? Those who are embracing the Tea Party movement and in returned are embraced by the Tea Party movement will do well. But I fear that a lot of Republicans (including many long serving Congressmen) will be post turtles come January.

They will be in leadership but not understand how or why. The Tea Party needs to be a movement long after 2010 in order to make the impact. That means 2 or 3 or 5 more waves of RINO cleansings in the primaries.

[screaminsunshine]

At this point people would vote for a Kangaroo before a Democrat.

[screaminsunshine]

I think the sooner he is evicted the better.

[Jimmy Valentine]

November indeed, if that misbegotten son of a sea cook Cornyn does not manage to give it all away.

There are more than DemocRATS we need to get rid of out there.

[tanknetter]

Stir up the base with worry over evil Republicans

Also lure Republicans into complacency by creating the perception that the election is a lock two months before it actually happens.

Complacency by an opponent is what gave Scott Brown the "Ted Kennedy Senate Seat" earlier in the year. Is also what lost John Kerry the Presidency in 2004. Conservatives/Republicans need to approach this like we're 5 points behind, not 10 points ahead ...

[Adder]

Boehner said yesterday there would be a written document of priciples or goals sometime soon after Labor Day...around the 14th-ish.

If’n I recall, the Contact with America wasn’t issued until after Labor Day back when.

I think folks are SO p-oed that they would vote for Mr. Hanky instead of a dumblecrat. I am to that point for sure.
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[jocon307]

“The Tea Party needs to be a movement long after 2010 in order to make the impact. That means 2 or 3 or 5 more waves of RINO cleansings in the primaries.”

Yes, that is absolutely right.

And don’t forget we must work at the local level too.

And at the party level.

Work, work, work. This is what we must do.

[reefdiver]

Evicted? Hes never there. Party boy is showing himself a great time while the country just drags along

[SkyPilot]

Voter fraud.

It is easier than it has ever been. I can tell you, with 100% confidence, of two sitting Senators who literally stole their elections in front of the voters, the media, the local precincts, and the courts.

Members of the Obama campaign have been documented (by Democrats!) to have participated in massive voter fraud, including locking the doors on Hillary Clinton supporters, stealing caucus forms, busing in people from other states (right under the noses of the media!), voting the dead, voting illegals, tampering with voting machines, holding votes in unauthorized places and manipulating results.

Let's not even discuss Eric Holder's New Black Panther buddies.

Currently, Under 18 USCODE PART 1 CHAPTER 29, vote fraud is sometimes a felony - and at that not a serious felony.

In most cases, vote fraud is a misdemeanor - and Democrats engage in it because they know that even if they are caught, arrested, brought to trial, and convicted, the penalties are still low.

Two former political workers for Ald. Bernard Stone, 50th, were each sentenced to nearly a year in Cook County Jail on Wednesday for attempting to manipulate absentee ballots in Stone's hotly contested 2007 election. Anish Eapen, a precinct captain and a Streets and Sanitation worker who was Stone's ward superintendent, was convicted in June along with unemployed student Armando Ramos following a bench trial that began late last year. Prosecutors charged the men with approaching residents in the ward and offering to help them cast absentee ballots, in some cases even filling out ballots for some of the alleged victims.Both faced multiple felony vote fraud charges, but Circuit Judge Marcus Salone found them guilty of attempted absentee ballot violations, which are misdemeanors. At Wednesday's sentencing hearing, Salone rejected the pleas of attorneys representing Eapen and Ramos for sentences that did not include jail time, saying that "the reality is that they attempted to steal democracy." Eapen, 40, was sentenced to 364 days in jail, and Ramos, 36, was sentenced to 270 days. Reached for comment Wednesday, Stone called the case "a witch hunt" and said Eapen and Ramos are "political prisoners." "They were convicted of misdemeanors — misdemeanors that are no longer crimes," said Stone. "Not felonies, misdemeanors, like spitting on the sidewalk."

Spitting on the sidewalk?!

Vote fraud should be treated as it is - TREASON. It is messing with the very foundations of our freedom and liberty.

Treason. That is what has to happen.

[fso301]

The best thing Democrats have going for them is that they will run against Republicans.

[I still care]

I’m getting a little concerned about what may happen in October, and not just for voting reasons.

Some people will do anything for money and power, and I’m sure some of them are in Congress, if the laws they pass are any indicator.

That October surprise may be something beyond our wildest nightmares.

[nikos1121]

Unfortunately what you say is very true.

McCain was the worst candidate. We voted for him because all of us here knew that the other guy was venom...

Not that he’s elected, I want the bas*ard in office all four years...I want things to get much worse before they get better....I don’t want innocent lives hurt, we can rebuild our bridges and monuments...but I want Islam to strike in the heart of the heartland of this country...

Americans need to wake up to the reality of what is going on and still to go on. The Europeans know...Why don’t we get it?

Islam is the enemy. Islam is Sharia law. There is no radical Islam...Islam is radical in its nature... It is no more a religion than Communism or Nazism...

Forget the birther issue... forget that. Leave this sick SOB in office, and his band of juvenile inexperienced elitist until 2012. Have him diss Hillary Clinton, so his party is super divided....and let’s have a rout.

I know it’s a pipe dream, and who knows what can happen, but it is delightful, the thought that we will take the House and Senate back.... Two years ago, I thought that was impossible....