During the last 14 days the White House and President Obama have gone on the attack, and their strategy is pretty simple: "Let's acknowledge the voter anger and make sure it gets funneled toward something else." Thus we have seen political attacks on just about everyone--and everything--out there. The problem, though, is that voters aren't angry with Karl Rove, John Boehner, the Chamber of Commerce or even the "undisclosed financing" of elections. Voters are angry about the economy and they have two devastating perceptions of this administration: voters think it is incompetent and that it has overreached over the past two years.

An even bigger problem for the White House is that voters may have already tuned the President out; virtually every possible metric used to evaluate the outcome of the midterm elections suggest a massive GOP victory. So let's just come out and say it: there is no reason to think that Republicans will do any worse than 1994 (when they picked up 54 seats) and there is plenty of data to suggest that it will, in fact, be a better year for the GOP. Our projection--based on all current available data--is that the GOP will gain between 60 and 70 House seats in November.

The White House and Democrats want this election to be a "choice," but midterms are rarely ever "choice" elections--that's what Presidential elections are for. Instead, midterms are a referendum on the President and the party in power. So let's look at the key metrics that we use to evaluate voter perceptions of the President and Congress:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-lombardo/21-days-to-go-and-democra_b_760085.html

Even they get it...

And this comment from one of their typical lib posters explains why they will lose, and lose big.

QuoteNoMoniker     2 hours ago (8:03 PM)
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So what does this mean? That Americans are just stupid this year? The horrible effects of disastrous Bush/Cheney years, and worst recession in 70 years, are still with us and can't be fixed in only a couple of years. So, the Republicans are poised to take advantage of problems they basically created.

If the GOP wins the House, or both, I hope that the Tea Partiers act the way they do now, in front of a national audience in Congress, on Fox News, etc. They will embarrass themselves. They have NO real solutions to our predicament -- you can't just do tax breaks, tax breaks, tax breaks all the time -- or what happened under Bush wouldn't have happened.

What solutions DO Tea Party-types have? Nothing, really. They seek to ride a general voter dissatisfaction (high unemployment, incredible foreclosure crisis, that both started under Bush) to win seats during a Congressional election in a recession, with no alternative, useful policies. All it's going to be is tax breaks for the wealthy (and higher deficits that they say we will "grow ourselves out of"), repealing health care reform and bitching about "ACRON," "Pelosi," "Reid," "Barney Frank," "soft on terrorism," etc., when things don't go in their favor.

What decent national leaders do the GOP have? Name one quality person -- ONE. Pawlenty? Huh? There are none...

Here is what you need -- Romney and Palin in 2012 -- PLEASE!

Stay crazy, Tea partiers. You'll overreach and do yourselves in. Count on

Quote from: Solar on October 13, 2010, 06:47:46 PM
And this comment from one of their typical lib posters explains why they will lose, and lose big.

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Braindead...

Quote from: Cryptic Bert on October 13, 2010, 06:52:27 PM
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Braindead...

Ahhh, the CNN mind.