Comments on: Thoughts on Polls, Political Economy, and Growth Expectations

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:53:02 +0000

As I begin, I will agree with Markg8′s ‘They made the mess and went from trying to hamstring any efforts to fix it while out of power and are actively trying to make it worse after taking over the house in 2010.’ And also Michael’s ‘The Republican “brand” is (correctly) starting to change from “a piece of America” to “people who hate America and its citizens”.’
Then I’ll add my thoughts on The Two(Schizophrenic)Faces of The Radical Right.
It’s not normal that a Political Party would so blatantly announce that they are doing ‘Everything Possible to make the President a One Term President’, repeatedly and intentionally do things to maintain the Economic Disaster we were in, keeping Millions of Americans Out of Work by refusing to pass a Jobs Bills ‘That Was Pain For’, and not seem to share any of the blame.
Then, to top it off, they then run an ill informed, and unqualified candidate that not even they approve of. And He(they) then attempts to blame the President for All of the Things The Republicans are largely and directly responsible for. The Jobs Number being just one example. (And secretly cheering any BAD News that comes along with regard to the economy) While saying ‘How Concerned They Are For America…! WHAT??? They NEED Help!
My only confusion is Why ANY Independent Voter can’t see this and realize the best and only solution is to rid the House and Senate of Every Republican up for election! Thus allowing Our President to Truly Improve the Situation.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:46:34 +0000

I think the big change is that the Republican “brand” is (correctly) starting to change from “a piece of America” to “people who hate America and its citizens”.

The right-wing freakout over an African-American President was just too sustained and too far away from centrist values to be papered over. Romney is the third GOP Presidential candidate in a row who is obviously unqualified for the position (Romney’s not in touch with reality; McCain was simply not healthy enough; Dubya was stupid and cruel). I think that the old model, which held that both sides really were difficult to tell apart, is coming to an end. The Dixiecrats really are different from the rest of the country, and the GOP is a Dixiecrat party.

By: markg8

markg8 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:59:29 +0000

I’ve been phonebanking for Obama on Sunday and Tuesday nights with my local township Democratic organization for over a year and a half here in IL, to IA, and occasionally to WI and OH. We’ve also done one on Monday nights in the last month or so for a couple of local House candidates, Bill Foster (IL-11) and Leslie Coolidge (IL-6). Also canvas on Saturday mornings for Foster and we send a car load or two to IA on day trips to canvass out there.

From what I’ve been hearing indies are fed up with gridlock. Romney doesn’t impress them, even diehard Republicans will vote more against Obama than FOR Romney. The general impression – which I do nothing to discourage – is that we have to boot the GOP to get the economy moving again. They made the mess and went from trying to hamstring any efforts to fix it while out of power and are actively trying to make it worse after taking over the house in 2010.