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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 06, 2010, 11:05:39 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9498293
Oh my.
kentuck (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-06-10 10:35 AM
THE BLUEGRASS PRIMITIVE
Original message
First of all, the Repubs did not win a mandate.
Because their approval rating at the time of the election was about 22% - lower than the Democrats and much lower than the President's. They did not win because people agree with their ideas. They won because they were able to mount a propaganda campaign of hatred by their Tea Party pawns and were able to get more crazy people to the polls.
It would be a mistake for the Democrats to misinterpret this election. Voters do not agree with the policies of the Republican Party. Unfortunately, in this election, they did not agree with the Democratic Party policies either. But this is no time to give away the store, believing the people support everything the Republicans are for. This is a time to stand on principles and conviction.
Is this like that speech Oliver Wendell Douglas used to give on Green Acres?
Where fifes and drums played in the background as he orated?
underpants (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-06-10 10:37 AM
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1. Well they were smart- they got numbers by going after Blue Dog Dems who had barely won in 2006 or 2008- like Perriello, he won by 727 votes two years ago.
They spent their corporate money in a constructed organized manner to flat out get numbers.
no it wasn't a mandate at all but the press declared it over and that it was months ago.
BeFree (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-06-10 10:58 AM
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3. No mandate
Half of the few number of people that voted were motivated by liars and deniers financed by the largest dump of money ever in a midterm election.
We have obtained the best government money could buy. And all the buyers could get were a few bluedog congressional seats to show for it. What a waste of money.
Now, the half of the few that did vote, guided, by not lies and denial, but voting for progress, need to uncover just who bought those bluedog seats, and send them all a message that our democracy is not for sale.
It comes down to money for these people, and they get their money from us.
Time we cut their allowance.
rfranklin (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-06-10 10:38 AM
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2. However, they will act and speak as if they did...
And they will create the impression in most people's minds that they did. Aided of course, by their media echo chamber.
Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-06-10 11:36 AM
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4. Old people voted, young people did not.....which is typical of mid-term elections.
But in the last two years older Americans have had their fears and (especially) their racism brutally stirred up by the Right, so that all logic about voting flew fight out the window. We're talking about people who have enjoyed the benefits of the New Deal their whole live voting for people who are against things like on the grounds that it is Socialism. The person seen holding that sign saying "Keep the government out of my Medicare" pretty much sums up this radical disconnect.
And the racism---geez. I was just thinking this morning that racism makes people act like lunatics. Many older Americans seem to be so scared of that colored man in the White House they will vote for anyone opposed to him.
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DUmmie said, And the racism---geez. I was just thinking this morning that racism makes people act like lunatics. Many older Americans seem to be so scared of that colored man in the White House they will vote for anyone opposed to him.
So afraid that they accidently elected more to send to Washington.....they're undercover.
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Heaven forbid the DUmmies look at the diverse set of people the republican party just elected and sent to washington.......
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They are so predictable and idiotic.
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Everybody KNOWS that a real mandate is 52/48 popular vote election.
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-06-10 10:58 AM
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3. No mandate
Half of the few number of people that voted were motivated by liars and deniers financed by the largest dump of money ever in a midterm election.
This DUmmie must be referring to the ungodly amount of money that the unions poured into the campaign coffers of the DemonRats this election. More money was spent for the Dems overall than for the conservatives.
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The DUmmies are partially right, this is not a mandate nor an endorsement of the GOP, this is a mandate for conservatives. If the GOP acts conservative then in 2012 we will upset you goons once again.
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The DUmmies are partially right, this is not a mandate nor an endorsement of the GOP, this is a mandate for conservatives. If the GOP acts conservative then in 2012 we will upset you goons once again.
I think it is a mandate against the growing government and massive spending. That is why so many establishment GOPers lost in the primaries. It pisses me off when the establishment blames the Tea Party for Angle and O'Donnell. If the party had backed them right from their winning their respective primaries, then there might have been a different outcome. I lay the blame for not winning the senate squarely at the feet of the GOP.
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I think it is a mandate against the growing government and massive spending. That is why so many establishment GOPers lost in the primaries. It pisses me off when the establishment blames the Tea Party for Angle and O'Donnell. If the party had backed them right from their winning their respective primaries, then there might have been a different outcome. I lay the blame for not winning the senate squarely at the feet of the GOP.
Amen! The fact that the GOP was bad mouthing them hurt their campaigns worse than any of the shit the dems threw at them.
If the GOP had been behind the candidates that the voters chose, Harry Reid would be sending out resumes now.