Comments on: TRENDS FOR 2010 BEGINNING TO WORRY DEMOCRATS

By: charles

charles — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:27:39 +0000

Well the Dems and obama have exploded the deficit with a stimulus that hasn’t worked and a serious of other spending sprees in about every department. The only answer the Dems have to our problems is the government. How about this we eliminate the income tax replace it with a tariff or 12 to 15 percent sales tax to support the military and let people solve there own problems. When there hungry let them get there own food, when there out of work let them find work, and let the market handle the economy without government intervention. If you got rid of the Department of Transportation people would have the money from that to purchase cars or take cabs. We don’t need a big government we don’t even need a middle sized government. We need an army and we need border security and that’s all I feel the Fed should do, because they would do one thing and get it right.

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By: jackson1234

jackson1234 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:36:56 +0000

Who would have thought as little as three months ago there would be a possibility the House majority could change hands? Charlie Cook, who has a good record, believes it is just as possible the GOP could pick up more than 20 seats than win less than 20 seats. Stu Rothenberg, who earlier this year claimed it impossible the GOP would retake the House in 2010, has started to do a walk back of sorts. His record is quite good, too.

A GOP-controlled House in 2010 is a long shot but possible now. The best result for the GOP, I think, would be a narrow Dem majority wehrein that party’s brewing civil war between moderates and liberals would reach fever pitch.

As for the Senate, it likely ain’t gonna happen. Then again, unlike the House, the Senate has frequently shifted parties in recent decades because this nation despite all the “Part X is Dead” bullshit remains split down the middle. Again, a few months ago most observers didn’t think the GOP would gain Senate seats and that seems more than likely now.

It is a long way off, but one thing seems certain: Obama has done to his party in a matter of months what it took Bush eight years to accomplish—greatly (but certainly not permanently) weaken it. Perhaps that is the bright spot to this Administration.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:30:25 +0000

Do you mean http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ ? I went to 538.com and got a vile domain squatter who deserves no links.

Ooops! Copied the link right from the Politico article. Should have taken the link from the website.

Thanks for the heads up.

ed.

By: theblackcommenter

theblackcommenter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:56:50 +0000

Deficits won’t bother people if the economy is propped up by infusions of cheap cash, which is what I predict will happen. I suspect that the delay in releasing stimulus monies will end in time for there to be some economic progress near election time and then Dems can run on economic “success” of their policies, even though they are just paper profits due to an inflated currency.

There will of course be a lag between the boom and the bust but one just long enough to get BO back in office in 2012. Combine that with a lackluster candidate (a la Bob Dole) and 2016 is the next realistic shot.