Posted on 10/07/2010 2:31:37 AM PDT by Scanian
It's clear that Democrats are less enthusiastic about voting this year than Republicans. The latest evidence is from Gallup, which reports that the GOP's 3 percent edge in congressional voting among registered voters rises to 13 and 18 points when you include just those likely and very likely to vote.
So why are Democrats less enthusiastic? And why has "the progressive donor base," as Democratic consultant Jim Jordans reports, "stopped writing checks"? It's not just because the economy remains sour or that President Obama failed to jam a public option in the health-care bill.
I find a more convincing explanation in an offhand phrase in a brief article by Adam Serwer of the Center for American Progress on The Washington Post's opinion pages. "There's no question," Serwer writes, "that Obama has completely reversed on his promises to roll back Bush-era national-security policies."
For it is not economics but foreign policy that has motivated the left half of the Democratic Party over the last decade.
When Howard Dean's supporters were declaring that they wanted to "take our country back" in 2003 and 2004, they weren't talking about repealing the Bush tax cuts. They were talking about withdrawing US troops from Iraq and taking a more conciliatory stance to the leaders of Old Europe and Iran.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Apparently not enough because they’re everywhere.
The Crats will get their normal turnout of Misfits. The Republicans will overwhelm them.
I call this TOTAL BS.
Other then the highbrow elite Marxist, the Dimocraps
are still the party of gimegime.
I agree with some of the article, but economy trumps foreign policy. Even the most brainwashed Obots must realize there’s little hope or spare change.
You are right. The article, IMHO, is incomplete. There are three groups of electorates: the conservatives, the independents, and the liberals. 0bama won because he managed to attract the independents vote for him, adding to the liberal base. The economic condition and his economic policies have driven the independents away from him, and energize the conservatives. This alone, however, could not explain why the liberal base has been unenergized. After all, on economic front, they won many things that they had been dreaming for generations; and one should expect they would be more energized to make sure their demands are fulfilled (e.g., public option). The article offers a good explanation to this question: The reason libs are unenergized is not 0bama’s economic policies, but his foreign policies...
They’re worried about losing their jobs, while most blacks who continue to support Obama think he’ll pull a rabbit out of a hat for them. More wholescale reparations and whatever’s needed to put gas in the car and pay the mortgage. For them it’s all about the color of his skin.
Blacks know there are no rabbits in the hat, but they are determined to “stick by their man” even if they don’t like Tammy Wynette’s songs.
I don't know... STDs?
“STDs?”
And black on black crime.
“while most blacks who continue to support Obama think he’ll pull a rabbit out of a hat for them.”
True and I have many black friends who cannot stand Obozo who can affirm this. They think and see that those that still hitch their horse to him are on a downward spiral headed for even more heartache and despair.
This guy is partially right. But like many Republicans assessing Bush's problems this guy fails to understand how issues can work together against the president.
These liberals are mad that Obama is still spending money on war while only passing what they consider a too small stimulus bill due to deficit concerns. And they are mad that Obama-care has no public option, which would have been taxpayer funded. To them the war is about $$$,they want that money spent by government here, much like the anti-Vietnam war heme. These are the types of connections they used against Bush(Iraq, the deficit and rising gas prices) , now backfiring on them.
They so wanted to bring Iraq troops home, but now they finally got it and they have (there are no) no jobs for them.
Hope and change is dead. Hispanics are losing interest in democrats too, failure to pass the Dream Act.
Bush put them in place to save the country he loves.
Obama has kept them to save his own skin. He hates America, but he wants to destroy us economically, not by terrorism.
And this is just one column. I'm sure he understands that many Democrats just want a handout, but there are certainly other issues at work, including Obama's being forced to accept the protection of America, and the ideological far left idiots' being upset with him for it.
Your pretty much on the money sickoflibs. In a nut shell the demrat’s circular and juvenile arguments have come back to bite them. It’s easy to be a Marxist as long as the capitalists keep capitalizing—i.e. the country—and indivdual citizens—are/is relatively wealthy, employed and have a positive outlook on life.
The Usurper Onada and his band of angry commies have done what all commie regimes do—kill the golden goose or never give it a chance to flourish.
As you know I am no fan of Bush, yet Obama’s excuses blaming Bush for his (Obama’s) unemployment policies results are not gaining sympathy with me. If Obama were doing the right things, encouraging private sector employment, I would cut him slack (many others would not.)
Many of the arguments Democrats used to bring down Republicans wrt Bush are backfiring on Obama. Now that Obama is president he is finding that surrender is NOT as an attractive option (to him) as it was when Bush was president and would get the blame.
I’d like to believe that but no amount of enthusiasm on the right can completely overcome party registration, burgeoning Dem war chests, “walking around money,” flim-flam, union operatives dragging slobs to the polls, community organizers doing the same, and the classic FL trick of backing a bus up to an old folks’ home, filling it with seniors, and ordering them to vote for anybody with a “D” next to his/her name.
I think some of the numbers that Dick Morris and the like are throwing around are waaay exaggerated.
We should remember that 0 made it into the Dem presidential picture as an anti-war and anti-Gitmo candidate and has done little to satisfy the lefties who were expecting him to keep his promise.
No matter, the Dhimmis have been preparing themselves for a rough election cycle for decades and they will drag every homeless bum, every old person, and every college kid they can to the polls. And then the vote fraud will commence.
It will be very hard to overcome their cruddy tactics and money with conservative enthusiam alone.
The anti-war stuff would give the wingnuts something to hang their hats on...but 0 really hasn’t given them crap to shout about, has he?
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