Mister President, No One Is Falling For The 2-1 Spin
November 7, 2009 · carl · Print This Article
This weekend we will be bringing you a series of articles that may escape your notice otherwise, but that we feel are important enough that you should know about them.
This article points out that no matter how much of a happy face they try and put on it, the Democrats received a real setback this week.
Or put another way, Republicans won two races decided by millions of voters — and Democrats won a small race dominated by party operatives. In addition, the GOP made some historic gains in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Washington state special elections to boot.
In the context of Bob McDonnell’s huge win in Virginia and Chris Christie’s surprisingly comfortable win in New Jersey, of all places, the fact that Bill Owens scraped up enough votes to win NY-23 is a testament to the superior political insider maneuvering of the Democrats over the Republicans. So you mean the GOP party apparatus stinks? Well yes, but I think we knew that already.
What we did not know was just how overwhelming the anti-Democrat tide would be among voters. In the three talked-about races, it was a blowout of something like 55%-42% overall in precincts that voted for Obama 56%-44% just a year ago. The raw totals will end up a tad under 2.4 million GOP votes to 1.9 million for the Democrats in round numbers.
For the record, Barack Obama “voted present” by not even watching the election returns — let alone commenting — as his party suffered the massive 25% reversal. (Okay, I don’t believe White House reports that he didn’t watch, but who could blame him a little fib considering the magnitude of the actual loss?)
The stunning stat of the night might be this: that McDonnell beat Creigh Deeds by a thousand times the margin he did in 2005. Or it might be that Christie overcame a 700,000 party voter disadvantage to win a race with about two million total voters. Or it may be that all this happened with zero references to “reaching across the aisle” or mavericks. So what does this mean?
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For the first time in 8 months, I fell good inside, and safe. I feel like, there are others out here that see things as I do. God bless your courage, stay safe.
Hope yea now I feel it. Thank You