Posted on 10/31/2010 5:57:08 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Voters don't want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves.
In the first week of January 2010, Rasmussen Reports showed Republicans with a nine-point lead on the generic congressional ballot. Scott Brown delivered a stunning upset in the Massachusetts special U.S. Senate election a couple of weeks later.
In the last week of October 2010, Rasmussen Reports again showed Republicans with a nine-point lead on the generic ballot. And tomorrow Republicans will send more Republicans to Congress than at any time in the past 80 years.
This isn't a wave, it's a tidal shift—and we've seen it coming for a long time. Remarkably, there have been plenty of warning signs over the past two years, but Democratic leaders ignored them. At least the captain of the Titanic tried to miss the iceberg. Congressional Democrats aimed right for it.
While most voters now believe that cutting government spending is good for the economy, congressional Democrats have convinced them that they want to increase government spending. After the president proposed a $50 billion infrastructure plan in September, for example, Rasmussen Reports polling found that 61% of voters believed cutting spending would create more jobs than the president's plan.
Central to the Democrats' electoral woes was the debate on health-care reform. From the moment in May 2009 when the Congressional Budget Office announced that the president's plan would cost a trillion dollars, most voters opposed it. Today 53% want to repeal it. Opposition was always more intense than support, and opposition was especially high among senior citizens, who vote in high numbers in midterm elections.
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I read it differently. Americans do like Big Government - they just don’t want to be forced to pay for it.
Thanks for the Halloween mask photo.
After Tuesday, we need to work hard to make sure that 0bama is gonna be a 1-term president, and be replaced with a conservative Republicans. In addition, we also have to work hard to replace the RINOs and liberal Dhims with conservative Republicans in Congress.
The dems just tell everyone that someone undeservingly richer than them will have to pay for the handouts.
There just aren’t that many rich people to pay for it. If there were, the Democrats would be the ones winning by a landslide on Tuesday.
Americans aren’t stupid.
That almost made me spit up my dinner!!
Exactly.
IMO, the focus in the next two years has to be the issues that a majority are in favor. Spending control, lower taxes, repeal of Obamacare, and help for job growth, small businesses. If they focus on what the majority want, their approval will rise and set up longer term success. If they go too strong on more divisive issues, they will lose support. The BS is the more success they have with jobs and economic growth, the more likely Obama survives 2012.
” And tomorrow Republicans will send more Republicans to Congress than at any time in the past 80 years.”
How much popcorn do you think we’ll need?
That face could make a one hundred-twenty-six car freight train with four locomotives take a gravel road!
If you are a pub...even a minor pub....this is the year to vote....your vote is worth a million times more this year..this is the year the table is set for us...we wont get a year like this again in our lifetimes.....VOTE!!! DRAG PEOPLE TO POLLS!!! DONATE!!!!! MOVE IT MOVE IT!!!!!...I have voted and im car pooling people to the polls....DO IT!!! MOVE IT!!! THIS IS OUR CHANCE!!! WE CAN FRIGGIN GET CALI FOR GODS SAKES!!!!
In a macabre kind of way that finger is scarier than that face.
"But none of this means that Republicans are winning. The reality is that voters in 2010 are doing the same thing they did in 2006 and 2008: They are voting against the party in power."Thanks to the energy and focus of the tea party folks, many entrenched, ruling class Republicans lost their primaries. Many of the more conservative candidates who unseated them will go on to win a seat in Congress. The Dems need to do the same with their own party. Chances are that they won't as Dems seem to like big government.
America must never forget who the Democrats really are, and how they held America hostage against our will after they seized control of our government. They must never be trusted again with power.
Good luck with that. At some point, the GOP will mess things up and the Democrats will run Washington again. That’s the nature of a free society.
The question is if the Democrats will learn anything from their defeat this coming week. My guess is they won’t.
-—Voters don’t want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves.-—
Unfortunately a lot of Americans are fine with Washington calling the shots in their personal lives.
A better way than trying to convince politicans of what the people “want” is to just site the Consitiution as a limiting document. That should cover all the bases.
"But none of this means that Republicans are winning. The reality is that voters in 2010 are doing the same thing they did in 2006 and 2008: They are voting against the party in power.
Because your right. The Americans wanted them to improve the economy and serve them in the congress, and they went there and failed and tried to expand their own power.
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