[chickadee]

I disagree a bit with Rasmussen on this:

"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.

I think Pelosi and the Dems sealed their fate when Pelosi "deemed" the healthcare bill to have passed. The electorate worked hard to get Scott Brown elected in order to derail Obamacare and the Dems cheated. They did not play by the rules.

The electorate spent untold hours on the phone with their Congressional reps. They attended town hall meetings where it was clear that they were more informed about the dreadful healthcare bill than the Congressional reps running the town halls, only to be ignored and bullied by people who are supposed to be working for them.

[KC_Conspirator]

disagree a bit with Rasmussen on this:

"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.

[luvbach1]

I agree with you. By Rasmussen’s reasoning the voters will send the Republicans packing in 2012 no matter what they do to staunch the tide of Obamunism.

[RightFighter]

For what it’s worth, they never actually used the “deem amd pass” strategy. They just talked about using it. I think on that issue, at least, they understood that the peasants with the pitchforks would not stand for it.

[Soul Seeker]

Obamacare, I agree, is what sealed their fate. TARP was bad. The stimulus was bad. Obamacare broke every faith and every constitutional rulebook. They were warned. They chose to spit in our face and kick us to the ground. That’s when I decided to make them pay. I still hate Republicans. I still distrust them. But Democrats must pay. Republicans needed to as well, hence the primaries.