Lemme see if I got this right:
Losing two state races = referendum on President Obama.
Winning two Congressional races = never mind.
When you’re the world’s only remaining super-party, you create your own reality.
Who is getting this free health care? Is it workers who get it from employers? Is it politicians with their health care? Perhaps it is you?
Reading is fundamental.
Yes. A few years ago polls showed the opposite, and the Democrats were the ones wringing their hands. Ideology has not changed.
The Republican brand is not all that popular just now, largely because of economy/Iraq issues. These tend to be cyclical.
(FTR, I also disbelieve the specific poll numbers that you quoted, but it’s irrelevant here, as above.)
Right, but when that happens the parties swing back to the middle in order to survive.
Not sure what you mean by ‘the opposite,’ but I’m sure that the Dems have never had numbers like that.
A) Those poll numbers directly address your absurd contention that the two parties are always equidistant from the American center.
B) If you simply don’t believe them, that’s nice, but I could say the same thing about any evidence or argument you produced. Once you go down that avenue, there’s really no point in debating, is there?
Those specific numbers are not important.
No, they don’t. As previously explained, there are other issues that impact popularity of political parties, beyond ideology.
OK.
Mirrored statement:
Mrs. Pelosi said “From my perspective, we won last night. We had one race that we were engaged in – it was in northern New York. It was a race where a Republican has held a seat since the Civil War, and we won that seat. So from our standpoint, no. We had a candidate that was victorious who supports the health-care reform… So from our standpoint, we picked up voted last night, one in California [CA-10] and one in New York.”
To paraphrase, the only race that mattered was the one the Dem’s won. 
To be fair, “From my perspective” for Mrs Pelosi is arguably “from the perspective of the House of Representatives”, in which case its true that the Dems had a good night.
From a federal perspective, she’s right, though.
I think the significant exit poll data is that showing that Obama wasn’t really a factor one way or the other.
Yeah, I can see that. But when I first heard her statements I quoted above, my initial reaction was to roll my eyes. And that’s why I think it’s spin, from the other direction. That’s all spin is, presenting things from a desired perspective.
I don’t buy into the pundits who are saying that the “other side” got bitch slapped. I think both major parties are exaggerating (or downplaying, as case may be) the implications of the races.
Absolutely. The House of Representatives’ Blue Dog Coalition lists 52 members. There are now 258 Dems in the House, while there were only 256 last week. This means Pelosi now needs only 12 Blue Dogs, rather than 14, to pass a bill. Don’t think that isn’t important.
It’s always funny when someone agrees with me and then tells me I’m wrong.
Anyway, you basically said precisely what I thought happened. Scozzafava dropped out without enough time to reprint the ballot, but that the selection committee gave the nod to Hoffman when she dropped out. Pretty much as I said.
But you may continue the time-honored tradition on the dope of calling someone an idiot while agreeing with them, but just adding a little more detail.
“It has been a Republican stronghold for well over 100 years. In some parts of the district, the last non-Republican to represent the area in Congress was a Whig.”
You great ball of fetid iguana kidneys, I’m telling you that you have no idea what I was saying, and you completely missed the point. I was talking about the votes received by the candidates. The ones that went to the Republican did not go to the Conservative by some magic. They went to the Republican Candidate, even if she had dropped out of the race. The interesting thing is that there was only a three day margin, and yet only five percent voted for the candidate-that-was-not-there.
This means, among other things, oh blindfold over the eyes and nipples of Justice, that Ashcroft really did lose to a dead man, it was not simple inertia that made him lose.
You are talking about something entirely different, endorsement by a party. Endorsement does not transfer votes.
The Democrats won a very closely contested district which was only lost due to the meddling left-of-Rockefeller Republican and lost the two governor chairs by a wide margin (in New Jersey the third party candidate, Daget attracted moderate Republicans and Libertarians who would overwhelmingly have voted for Christie) yet they claim they had a good night? Also the massive drive to legalize homosexuality for the last year is finally being slowed and this is the first major conservative victory since Prop 8. Also pretty much proves outside of Massachusetts voters will not approve of homosexual marriage.
“Legalize homosexuality?”
Typo; homosexual marriage.
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