Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida — GOP highlights in 2010 now marked by bitter Senate primaries

... The GOP envisions a road to a Senate majority — it needs a net gain of four seats to win control — but at this stage, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida aren't prime real estate....

Germany was already deeply divided between Left and Right, and this division rapidly intensified. The situation was made worse by the fact that Germany lacked a conventional, broadly based conservative party, so much of the hardline Right-wing vote went to the Nazis.
By late 1932 many politicians felt that the political structures were deadlocked and that something drastic had to happen to continue the process of government. On the advice of the German Nationalists (the DNVP) and some others, President Hindenburg invited Hitler to form a coalition government of Nationalists and Nazis. At the time it was assumed that the Nazis were the junior partners in the coalition. Within a few weeks Hitler upstaged the DNVP, established a dictatorship (March 1933) and two months later Germany became a one-party state.
Hindsight can distort. It would be wrong to regard the whole period of the Weimar Republic as one long build-up to Nazi rule. Until Germany was hit by the Great Depression, the liberals, moderate socialists (Social Democrats - SPD) and moderate conservatives (DVP) were in the ascendant and formed most of the German governments of the 1920s.

Bottom line is that the only choices the Germans had at the time was a Socialist (Hitlers Party), and or the Communists.

Some choice!

You are of course right, and I just wrote all this in our new “Patriot’s History of the Modern World, vol. 1, From America’s Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb,” due out in November. But it is also true that there were a half-dozen parties and in 1932, in fact, the Nazis only got 44% of the vote-—but were put in because the other parties would not unite around an anti-Nazi party/candidate. So technically, you’re correct, but more broadly, I’m on solid ground.

Clever “Plug” in your response :) LOL. I will check out your writings. It sounds interesting, and I have always respected folks who inform themselves of history. It is at least a starting point for conversation. I do disagree however on the parties coalescing to unite against Hitler, who was at least a Nationalist, the greatest threat to Germany was the Communists. Thus the reasoning for business, landowner, etc to throw their support behind Hitler. No win scenario really. The Commies would have done the Nazis in had it been the other way around.
Funny thing though, Both of them Fellers were book writers also...specifying there intentions, and plans. Barry: Mein Kamp Hitler: Dreams for Mein Fathers, or something like that. Like I said whats the diff. :) :)

Election night on FR is going to be a funeral parlor if things go as I expect them to. romney was born to lose.

OH, NO. There will lots of celebrating and cheering if what you expect to happen happens. So many FREEPers will supposedly be CHEERING and TRUMPETING Romney's loss.

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