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I sort of agree with Eleanor Clift.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 31st, 2010 at 12:30 PM  | 

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(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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  • mbecker908

    Huh? But but but whaddabout that guy, you know, the president?

  • 6eorge Jetson

    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!

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    Just pointing out the obvious…

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com Conservative Phantom

    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.

  • msctex

    When did “restive” become synonymous with “enraged?”

  • drfredc

    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.