One of the most bizarre campaign themes of Obama down the stretch was his complaints about outside money from mysterious places and donors influencing the outcomes of elections. Nancy Pelosi told Democratic benefactors that “everything was going great” until there was a flood of outside money pouring into races. Apparently, I missed that part of the nightly news where San Francisco was somehow magically | Read More »
While the mainstream media- an unofficial arm of the Democratic Party- contemplates an alleged civil war within the Republican Party, largely overlooked is the impending battle within the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, that final battle may have been delayed two years by the voters of Nevada, particularly the lackey union members and Hispanics who fell for the garbage of Harry Reid. Had Reid lost to | Read More »
As a recent post by Eric Erickson notes, there will undoubtedly be speculation about the great Republican civil war between the GOP establishment and the TEA Party activists for control of the party. In reality, this is nothing more than a distraction device perpetrated by the spin-meisters in the Democratic Party and their affiliates in the mainstream media and on those obnoxious liberal web | Read More »
Naturally, as Election Day draws very close, several races are tightening. The Obama machine is in overdrive as he attempts to recapture the spirit of 2008. He’s ignorant of the intervening two years and the general anger at politicians out there. The “hope and change” he espoused is anything but that and the blame has to be laid clearly at the feet of Obama. | Read More »
As every reader of this site should be aware, the battle between New Jersey’s largest teacher union- the NJEA- and the Governor, Chris Christie is one of the greatest story lines of 2010. After his inauguration, it did not take long for the union to step up its attacks on Christie and the Republican Party. Faced with a huge budget deficit, he was forced | Read More »
For anyone interested in understanding how demographics affect election outcomes, I suggest The Big Sort by Bill Bishop. For nowhere is this tendency more obvious than in California. For example, of its 53 Congressional districts, 33 are rated Democratic with an average rating of 17.6 per district. Of the 20 Republican rated districts, they are an average of 8.1 per district. In only one | Read More »
Say what you will about California, but perhaps a bigger bastion of liberal, Democratic Party power is in New York State. With a Democratic Governor, two Democratic Senators and 93% of their Congressional delegation Democrats, they clearly out perform California. At least California has a “Republican” Governor and only 64% of their Congressional delegation is Democratic. There will be some changes in New York | Read More »
For all the hoopla about Democratic gains in the northeast of late, a real look at Pennsylvania reveals that is is basically a conservative state. If you color in the southeastern corner and southwestern corners of the state blue- the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas- the remainder of the state looks like a giant “T.” And although Democrats have pushed into that “T” in recent years, | Read More »
Ohio has played a pivotal role in Presidential politics for years now. It was the key state for Bush in 2004. In 2008, it went to Obama. The axiom that you cannot win the Presidency without winning Ohio still stands. Considering that Ohio should be a debacle for the Democratic Party in 2010 may be the handwriting on the wall for Obama in 2012. | Read More »
After the possible taking of Obama’s old seat in the Senate in Illinois, the Republican Party has the unique opportunity to take the seat of the current Majority Leader in the Senate, Harry Reid in Nevada. If only Nancy Pelosi would fade away into obscurity, this would be the ideal, most satisfying year in politics. In the Governor’s race in Nevada, incumbent Republican | Read More »
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