(H/T: Hot Air Headlines) On at least one passage, at least. She wrote an article for Newsweek (yeah, it’s still publishing! Good show, that) where she assured her readers that of course they don’t need to worry about the 2010 election shellacking that the Democrats will be getting in the Senate, because a lot of those elections will be one-offs:
This is an off-year election, and there’s no popular politician with coattails to ride, but the voters are restive, and that’s always dangerous for the party in power.
‘Off-year election.’ Hey! You mean, like 2006′s was? And like 2014′s is going to be*?
Moe Lane
*You have to think of these things in the long-term, that’s all that I’m saying. Just about everything that’s true about the 2010/2016 dynamic is going to be equally true for the 2006/2012 one.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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...there’s no popular politician with coattails to ride
mbecker908 (Diary) Monday, May 31st at 12:44PM EST (link)Huh? But but but whaddabout that guy, you know, the president?
By my calculations, 2010 comes six years after 2004
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, May 31st at 1:28PM EST (link)which favored the good guys.
To think I was worried about the 2010 Senatorial playing field just after the 2008 election. This represents a Democratic “home game”, and they’re going to get crushed!
And who says they'll have a popular POTUS for coattails in 2012?
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Monday, May 31st at 2:36PM EST (link)Just pointing out the obvious…
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
http://www.zazzle.com/enemy_of_the_statist_tshirt-235977043035297478
Who says that Toonces is gonna be the Democrat nominee?
Conservative Phantom Monday, May 31st at 2:58PM EST (link)This guy is looking more and more like navel lint with each passing day and you can’t tell me that there aren’t a few in his camp who are seriously considering take a shot at the primary.
Watch what happens with the SecOfState after this November because if anyone is pre-positioned for a shot at President Toonces it’s gotta be that old hag with her, “See, I told you so,” issue about the 3am phone call. She could also drag out the philanderer-in-chief and remind everyone about what and economy should look like. It goes on and on.
Popcorn futures are looking pretty good right about now.
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Semantic question
msctex (Diary) Monday, May 31st at 3:44PM EST (link)When did “restive” become synonymous with “enraged?”
Off Year Baloney
drfredc Monday, May 31st at 4:10PM EST (link)Yes, this year has an “off year” election. However, the Obamacrats may want to spin this election, it’s likely to repeat (in part) the GOP take over of the Congress in 1994. The 1994 election result pretty much held for 12 years — it’s only exception was 2006.
IMHO, this was in large part due to the RINO leadership of the GOP Senate and the earmarking crowd it largely supported and protected from both parties, with a nod from the Bush White House. It’s highly possible that a Bush veto here or there on some of the RINO spending that the 2006 Dem takeover of Congress would have never happened. But alas, that didn’t happen.
Always, Fred C