Posted on 08/10/2014 6:08:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Ask voters in North Carolina’s Research Triangle what November’s midterm elections are about and one will tell you drones. A second will say closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yet another, the middle-class squeeze.
At a Sunday school classroom in Ypsilanti, Mich., voters are concerned about deteriorating roads, teen sex parties, truancy in schools and violent crime. Six hundred miles west at a Republican campaign office in Urbandale, Iowa, people fear that America is on an irreversible decline — like Germany after World War I, as one man predicted.
Across Colorado, voters are thinking about a whole other set of concerns — veterans’ care, driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants, the soaring cost of housing, the erosion of Christian conservative values, Russia’s rise, and fracking.
This is an election about nothing — and everything. Unlike in previous midterm election years, no dominant national theme has emerged for the 2014 campaign, according to public opinion surveys as well as interviews last week with scores of voters in five key states and with dozens of politicians and party strategists.
Even without a single salient issue, a heavy cloud of economic anxiety and general unease is hanging over the fiercely partisan debate.......
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It’d be nice is the GOP could offer us a little tax relief.
More BS from the Washington Post.
Liberal Translation:
“We liberals have screwed EVERYTHING up en royale, and we have nothing to blame the Conservatives with unless we make up even more lies, because if we don’t, we’re gonna get creamed again in November.”
Hmmm... I would have went with Obamacare, illegal immigration, 46 million receiving government subsistence, lack of jobs and the obvious lack of leadership on the world stage.
I’m saving the violation of the Constitution, IRS, Benghazi, VA, Fast and Furious, the EPA, missing emails and the clear persecution of those who aren’t Marxist or useful idiots for the impeachment hearings starting January 20.
That seems like a concise compilation to me.
And taking $ away from government solves a lot of those other problems.
WoPo trying to muddy the water. While it’s true that the Dems have no theme — Obama having proved himself inept at anything, the GOP will certainly have a theme. Obama and the complicit Dems.
“Detranformational change”.
Can't believe he went on vacation with everything that is going on...particularly because he has sent our boys into Iraq...on the pretense that he's some big humanitarian in regards to these Yazidi (who are generally Kurds) . But he never mentions Christians.
Must have something to do with "Kill All the Christians and Jews".....and "the sweetest sound"....and "I will side with
Boy, you can tell they asked in a liberal area.
With the help of the MSM.
Total BS from the post. This is more “fake like people are not blaming the adminstration and his democrat allies” article.
That sort of encompasses most of it.
Drones? Gitmo prison? Middle Class squeeze? Deteriorating roads? Teen sex parties? Fracking?
NONE of these are even on the radar. Now the crisis on our southern border, the importation of Ebola to the US, excessive regulation particularly by EPA, or the growing tsunami of debt, and the degree to which it was compounded by the adoption of this badly mismanaged farce called “Obama (failure to) care”, THOSE are probably much more real in the minds of at least a goodly portion of voters this fall, and none of them are going away, either.
Well put.
BUMP!
My sense of it is that the “theme” of the election is not discovered until after it is held.
When GOP stomped in ‘94 it became the Year of the Angry White Male.
I don’t think I recall hearing “soccer mom” until after whatever that election was.
Urbandale, Iowa is 600 miles west of Ypsilanti, Michigan? Looks like another elitist reporter consulted a “flyover country” map, where anything between the coasts is marked as “here there be dragons.”
Negative and not good enough. We non-Democrats have subsisted too long telling each other all the sad gossip about Obama. The real question is, "Where do we go from here?" We are no longer running against Obama. It was never good enough to tell the electorate merely that, "We are not Obama."
PROGRAM. PLAN. LEADERSHIP. Without'em, we'll continue to decline no matter who's in power.
I think the Post is correct on this one.
It isn’t that there aren’t any issues, as has been pointed out by Freepers, there are dozens of issues, all very real and personal to nearly all Americans.
Unfortunately, the Republican party is unaware of what they are.
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