Isn't it congress that controls spending? Congress has had the reins for the last 3 years of the Obama administration, each of which have seen massive deficits dwarfing the worst of the Bush years.
I am. Larger landslide in '10 than in '94, btw argues just the opposite.
John McCain had a negative effect on his own party. He, btw was leading in September.
Then why did they overwhemingly vote the Republicans into the congress? See- my hypothesis explains 2010. Yours does not. People were not happy with the Pelosi congress and what they had done since 2006, so they ousted them.
People are already waking up to the fiscal catastrophe that awaits the US, which Obama and his policies have greatly exacerbated. His recent budget does nothing to alleviate their concerns.
Massive, massive tax increases. Gutting the military. Massive increases in domestic expeditures, fairy-land economic and tax forecasts. It's an unmitigated disaster.
Did you see the numbers for Cain? I sure did. Cain was winning in Illinois, and he was getting lots of minorities out to vote for him.
The Republicans might not get a majority of them - but they don't need a majority of them, especially if the much vilified white men all come out to turf Obama.
I am. I'm seeing 15 point swings away from Obama. I'm seeing Obama struggle to break 50 percent as an incumbant against all manner of republican challengers - as a sitting president.
That - speaks volumes. The last time we had an incumbant this weak was probably Carter in '80 for the historical parallels.
Given that the US had their very first ever debt downgrade under the Obama administration - it's not the GOP policies that are the problem. People are going to look at their pocketbook, look at the future for themselves and their children. They are going to look at the party that will help them out. If the state itself is going to fall apart than every single one of the Democrat policies is suddenly null and void.
I suppose we could go back to the 75 percent effective tax rate under Kennedy - but wouldn't that speak volumes as to how far we have fallen?
I work in a 50 percent hispanic district. Do you really want to know how well Obama is thought of here? People are really hurting and they are not happy right now. I'm not talking old people, I'm talking folks closer to my age - folks trying to get out in the world and make a job. Folks that are having to move back in with their parents because they can't afford a place of their own. Who if they have a job are fighting to hang onto the hours that they do get.
That's the reality of the way things are now and have been for awhile now. Obama hasn't brought about prosperity - he's made the lives of individual Americans, particularly young Americans much harder.
Demographics are working against Democrats btw - Bush states in 2000 are growing compared with Gore states. All the Gore states are shrinking, and shrinking badly.
If the Republicans manage to convince folks that they are the best shot at their children finding work and prospering then the game would change would it not?
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