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 11-04-2009, 08:04 PM | #1 |
 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Booyaville (yeah!) Gender:  Posts: 10,791 Thanks: 1,019 Thanked 686 Times in 467 Posts | The rest of yesterday's elections While most people aren't morons and understand that our losses yesterday were NOT a referendum on Obama (even in conservative leaning districts they know what it means to split a ticket), I have a bad feeling that Fox News and their right wing allies will spin this as a loss for Obama's policies. Living in NJ, I know Christie was elected because he wasn't Corzine, who is extraordinarilly unpopular around here, not because of Obama, who still enjoys a 58% approval rating here. So no one get the wrong spin on this. We just hate Corzine. I hate him too although I voted for him (I figured Christie was going to be worse, and now I have low expectations for him). In Virginia I read that opinions on Obama are pretty much split down the middle, with less than a percent more disapproving. Virginia also has a history of voting for the party out of power for their governor. I'm pretty shocked NY 23 went for the Democrat rather than the crazy Glenn Beck right-winger (the day before the election he got on one knee and pledged himself to Glenn Beck's Sith Order). I would still think this district is conservative though, and Owens isn't exactly a liberal. If it were a center-right Republican it would've gone to the Republican in a landslide. Probably the only thing that made me happy was Cincinnati voting to let the city go ahead and build a streetcar line. Transit wins again. -CSM |
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| 11-04-2009, 10:10 PM | #2 |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: If there's a bright center to the universe I'm on the planet it's farthest from Gender: Posts: 3,747 Thanks: 1,598 Thanked 320 Times in 224 Posts Blog Entries: 1 | I'm just about ready to kill everyone on both sides. Whenever one party wins the other party says "It's still a victory for us cause statistics and stuff." And vice-versa So yeah, it's severely getting on my nerves. |
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| 11-04-2009, 10:54 PM | #3 |
| Awesome member  Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Why do YOU want to know...? Gender:  Posts: 15,896 Thanks: 1,130 Thanked 1,919 Times in 1,046 Posts | Ugh, elections pissed me off. In Arizona, most of the propositions to fix our dismal education system failed. Basically, the dumbest state in the US voted to stay dumb. |
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| 11-04-2009, 10:54 PM | #4 |
| Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Booyaville (yeah!) Gender: Posts: 10,791 Thanks: 1,019 Thanked 686 Times in 467 Posts | ^I never said it was a win. I just said it wasn't a devastating loss. -CSM |
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| 11-05-2009, 12:17 AM | #5 | |
| Senior Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: DenCo Gender: Posts: 9,850 Thanks: 127 Thanked 365 Times in 192 Posts | Quote:
Newt actually had this right when he potshotted the kooks that came in to push up some fringe candidate in a right-center district. Local leaders know what's better for a district than grandstanding governors and unemployed former VP candidates. They forced out the candidate that would have won 60-30-10 less than a week before the election and then wonder why they lost. Let a disorganized party tear itself apart. These tards need to follow the tried and true doctrine of not attacking themselves and let the other side tear each other apart. It worked for the GOP since FDR died. These idiots are crying, and screaming that it isn't fair that the ousted candidate took 5%, or that there was voter fraud, or that it's a good showing. This is a huge defeat for the fringe wing. If you go for the shot, you have to score. They failed. They lost. They sank time and money into what should have been an easy win if they left good enough alone (in addition to wasting several million from the GOP's national committee) and turned it into a narrow loss. There are more moderates out there than fringe kooks, and if they keep doing this idiotic strategy, they're going to be skunked in 2010 even though they should be making massive gains in the House. | |
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| 11-05-2009, 01:33 AM | #6 |
| Fairy-Slaying Maniac  Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: 1592 Miles Away From Here Gender: Posts: 18,062 Thanks: 148 Thanked 683 Times in 482 Posts | Yeah, go Fringe wing! Implode your party! |
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| 11-05-2009, 06:17 AM | #7 | |
| Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Booyaville (yeah!) Gender: Posts: 10,791 Thanks: 1,019 Thanked 686 Times in 467 Posts | Quote:
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| 11-06-2009, 12:49 AM | #8 |
 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender:  Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,151 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts | Voting for someone based on their party just means you didn't have a clue who to vote for. It's too bad we can't keep a politician's party a secret until after the elections. :P |
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| 11-11-2009, 01:10 AM | #9 | |
| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Ohio Gender: Posts: 2,751 Thanks: 61 Thanked 13 Times in 10 Posts | Quote:
I just hope the economy in Ohio gets better...the last thing I want is John Kasich as my governor... | |
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