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Subscribe to RSSChristine O’Donnell may have received enough national recognition to prompt a Saturday Night Live cold open, but two new polls show that the Delaware Republican appears unlikely to be the state's next U.S. senator.
A University of Delaware poll released Wednesday showed O’Donnell trailing Democrat Chris Coons by 19 points. And a Fairleigh-Dickinson University poll showed Coons up 53 percent to 36 percent.
For all the national buzz that the Palinesque perennial candidate has received, her supporters in her home state are comparatively lukewarm about her bid, according to the Delaware poll. Only one third of O’Donnell supporters said that they would be “very disappointed” if she lost the race, compared to two-thirds of Coons supporters who said the same about the Democratic candidate.
Tea Party darling O’Donnell stunned GOP rival Rep. Mike Castle, a moderate former governor with broad appeal and high name ID in the heavily Democratic state, in the state’s Sept. 14 Republican primary. The Fairleigh-Dickinson poll showed that Castle would be leading a hypothetical matchup with Coons by double digits.
Both polls also showed the Democrat in the race with a substantial advantage among independents, a phenomenon that could affect other Tea Party-affiliated candidates. Only 25 percent of independents nationwide have a positive opinion of the Tea Party movement, according to the latest NBC/WSJ poll. And more than half of independents said they have a negative impression of Sarah Palin, whose endorsement helped to vaunt the little-known O’Donnell to primary victory.
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This may be the fate of teabaggers all over the country. That would be great!
In this particular case maybe she can put one of her witchy spells on her opponent to make sure he won't do things in private she doesn't approve of.
They're loud but they don't have the force they dishonestly claim to have. They lie about fiscal conservancy: they want to cut everything but SS, Medicare, Medicaid and Military spending...which is 80% of the budget! They lie about their numbers. They lie.
The media destroyed this lady. I didn't see where all of that lefty Mahr's clips from high school was relevant.
I'm quite sure no one in this room would pass muster if that is the standard.
If the citizens of Delaware choose to let the media and left-wing shows dictate decisions, then that is on them.
"they want to cut everything but SS, Medicare, Medicaid and Military spending...which is 80% of the budget!" - FatSean
You are mostly right except that many do want to cut social security, medicare, and medicaid in many ways. Some even want to cut the civil rights act.
inthemiddle.... It is not the media..... She screwed her staff from her2, count them 2 other campaigns in the last 5 years.... The people who are hammering her the most are Republicans like myself.... She is exactly where she wants to be... in the spotlight..... btw... wait until she loses this election, states she won't run anymore and then keep the remaining funds in her election coffers.... watch... take my word for it... She will be an instant millionaire.... on the backs of others.....
The media didn't destroy this women, she planted a time bomb on any compaign she would have years ago with her stupid comments.
BTW, how is she suppossed to have a successful campaign when she won't take questions at any of her events? Know one knows who she is, what she stands for or what she intends to do in office. Better go with the devil you know than the devil you don't.
Monty,
I don't have a dog in this fight either way. I live in Texas. What I'm saying is NO ONE is perfect and we ALL have skeletons. I take what former anything says with a grain of salt.
I did not still do not like McCain but in 2008 we didn't have a choice but to back him or stay home. Sometimes you just got to suck it up unless of course you're a RINO.
You say "Wait till she loses". That does not sound like a fellow republican. I coached a Pee Wee football team a few years ago that never won BUT I would never say to anyone "wait till they lose then we can go to McDonalds".
I don't hate for anyone making money.
In spite of the fact that this is the 3rd straight election in Delaware for US Senator in which "Junior Grizzly" has run, she remains a political neophyte...an unknown...and like it or not the voters need her biography.
It's not the media's fault that the biography we're getting is a dumpster fire.
The Tea Partiers actually have no one to blame but themselves. Anger is a poor motivation to do anything because you're not thinking straight. In this case, you chose a candidate with a background that a rational Republican would look at laugh.
But, no, the majority of voters in the primary chose to let their anger rule their choice. They will pay the price in November.
stupid
Wrong AGAIN ITM...
Would you please explain to all of us HOW the media MADE her say those asinine & goofy things she did?
The things she stood for in her youth, helped shape who she is today - that is why they are relevant. Plus, alot of these clips are NOT from high school. She was in her 20's.
inthemiddle
Believe me ... I don't have a problem with people making money.
As I stated in an earlier post... I worked to get Mike elected. she beat Mike and there is some history there. Her scortch earth campaigned against him was deplorable.
As for the RINO comment..... Reagan stated a person that is for me 80% of the time is 80% my friend... not 20% my enemy. So RINO's as we are sometimes called, stand for people who are reasonable and want to forward an agenda for many or all constituents. I was always taught that we are AMERICANS FIRST!!!!! party should come a distant second.....
Common ITM. O'Donnell is a nut job. We need serious and intelligent people in the United States Senate unlike the Senator from SC or his protege O'Donnell. Just what we need another I'm like you candidate a la GW.
Thanks, but no thanks!
Thank you Sarah Palin! I think that nitwit is secretly in cahoots with Democrats to ensure as many nutwits as possible are nominated so the democrats can run against their personality rather than having to defend their record. As for the Rino comment, there is no single monolithic standard for what makes a person a Democrat or a Republican, there are only shades of grey. The Rino or Dino labels are only used by fringe elements out of mainstream thought.
None of the clips are from High School, they are all in her mid to late 20's to late 30's. No where in a single clip released to date did she ever claim her period of "dabbling in witch craft" was in high school, as opposed to college. Watch every clip, high school was never mentioned until the comments about dabbling in witch craftbecame public, then as a defense she claimed this was in high school. I personally think she lied on Bill Maher to sound more interesting and to get asked back to the show, but instead of saying she made it up to sound more interesting she claimed it occurred in high school.
The media hasn't attacked her unfairly, they exposed her own stupid comments, ranging from personal private sexual behavior own engages in by themselves in private, to claiming scientist have created mice that possess human brains. This women's own words have been used to expose her as a nut job.
monty, the conservative movement today is like the Spanish Inquisition. they demand absolute and unfaltering agreement with their so-called principles. You don't need to actually have a plan to balance the budget or define what programs and services you want to cut on the way to "smaller government". You just have to testify using the prescribed words. If you don't, you're the enemy.
wakeup-1950437
Common ITM. O'Donnell is a nut job. We need serious and intelligent people in the United States Senate unlike the Senator from SC or his protege O'Donnell. Just what we need another I'm like you candidate a la GW.
I'm assuming you are referring to Al Franken when you refer to serious and intelligent. Apparently the guy can't stay awake during session. and when he is given the gavel he doesn't follow protocol. So how is so intelligent and serious?
I don't have a problem with people making money but I do have a problem with how they make their money. There are a certain number of people that are in the spot light now that don't really have an agenda but make money by telling the people what they want to hear not what they would really accomplish once they would be elected. One in particular just likes getting paid for her appearances and not having to say anything intelligent.
Nope. Marco Rubio is the true Tea Party candidate.
'Christine the teenage witch' is a prime example of what happens when someones 'anti-masturbation'! lol
Hey SmallerGov Now - You do realize that Marco Rubio so far has NOT come out in favor of the AZ Immagration law. In fact he's stated the didn't think that was the right way to go about handling the situation. BTW - he's still facing some ethics allegations from his days in the FL legislature.
In these days, anything that has been said even 20 years ago, seems to surface. We all have skeletons, but some are larger than others and some we stuck our foot in our mouths. Those things come back to haunt us at some point. This lady has been running for office for quite some time. She is not a fresh face to the politcal game. I still say she needs to come clean about how she supported herself over the last few years not showing employment. Why she said she attended certain schools when she just got her degree a couple of months ago? Questions needs to be answered.
The media did not destroy O'Donnell--they were her words, her views, her beliefs--the media could not make that kind of crazy up. It wasn't the media who started an investigation into her possibly illegal use of campaign funds to buy food, pay rent, etc. No different that Sarah Palin, the media asked her simple and easy questions--she could not answer. If candidates want to be taken seriously, they must first be serious.
She espouses no political ideas whatsoever, save for her preference to legislate and outlaw masturbation.
What scares me about her and many of these teabaggers is that if allowed to run the roost, we would indeed see America turn into a third world country. These candidates have shown that they know enough to get themselves (and all the rest of us) into serious trouble.
So go ahead and put down those elected officials with stellar educational backgrounds, who've worked on complex issues that are difficult for lay people to understand -- but if you put the illiterates into office, rest assured, we will be in a truly sorry state.
@middle,
It's a load of crap to say the media is responsible for destroying O'Donnell. Her own words from out of her own mouth -- that's what destroyed her. Sane people in Delaware actually heard what she had to say, and rightly perceived her to be an idiot. Happily, it looks like Delaware will not be putting an idiot in the Senate this November.
That said, O'Donnell's probably going to pull a Palin and turn her gross ineptitude into a gig as a national spokesperson for the ultraconservative wing-nuts in the GOP. Who knows, that may have been her "plan" all along?
IntheMiddle, TX
The media destroyed this lady. I didn't see where all of that lefty Mahr's clips from high school was relevant.
I'm quite sure no one in this room would pass muster if that is the standard.
If the citizens of Delaware choose to let the media and left-wing shows dictate decisions, then that is on them
#1.2 - Wed Oct 6, 2010 2:04 PM EDT
IntheMiddle, TX
I don't think that is the case at all. She has demonstrated her incompetence in a number of ways. O'Donnell simply isn't intelligent enough to be a US Senator and the people of Delaware recognize this.
Good to see you Karenann & GREAT thoughts!
inthemiddle,
no one would probably be as clean, however when you present yourself as the cleanest place or this moral compass, it is the job of those that know you to prove you are a big fat liar. she liar and the is getting caught from all angles. just like the rest of the tea bagger. they are a bunch of morons who got elected by a few crazy minority. welcome to the big stage, everyone is watching you and are ready to prove you wrong.
When we kick you leftie-liberals out on your ass we are going to vote Obama care into the ground. If we can not make it go away we will make it so hard to use that it will die on its own.
Then we will privatize Social Security and Medicare. Putting these socialist programs in the hands of professional investment houses will make them far less expensive to the real Americans who pay the taxes!
Sic-n-tired... take TWO of the Red pills and call us in the morning will ya?
Man, the teabaggers are really taking this one pretty hard. They've been under the illusion that they weren't a fringe minority for years now, and suddenly reality kicks in and they're lost.
I'd almost feel sad if they weren't the party of disbanding constitutional rights, of voter intimidation, violence, and terrorism.
Looks like the public option is on the table again, over 70% of the country want it, and Obama is looking it over again. if you want the public option vote as many Democrats in as you can, even the Republicans Independents who want the public option need to vote the Democrats in this election!!!
Forget the public option. Single payer would save everyone more money and provide health care for all in this country
Your right!!!
No way. Really? Tee Hee, this indicates there is intelligent life in America!
Funny how the leftist always believe the leftista. LOL
The only poll that counts is next month.
I loved Rachel Maddow's show last night that was broadcast from Newark, De. I am optimistic that conventional wisdom across the U.S. is wrong just like it was during the "08 Presidential campaigns. I can't help but think that the electorate is a lot smarter than they are being given credit for.
I believe that the democratic party will hold it's own in the midterm elections and pundits will once again be scratching their heads about where they got the wrong interpretations of the voters.
My confidence is with the American voter's.
K Mac in Okla
I loved Rachel Maddow's show last night that was broadcast from Newark, De. I am optimistic that conventional wisdom across the U.S. is wrong just like it was during the "08 Presidential campaigns. I can't help but think that the electorate is a lot smarter than they are being given credit for.
It was the bomb. I loved it too. The fact that Christine O'Donnell is behind in 2 polls gives rise to the testament that even some indepedent members of the TB are waking up to these reckless foolishness.
I give them credit for it; now if the only others could open their eyes.
Mark my words; Christine O'Donnell will garnish lots of national attention on the Comedy Channel, SNL, blogs, and Bill Mayer.
Beverly:
Who, pray tell, is Bill Mayer?
Kmac, you go, you are right on!
The reports of the Dem's demise were greatly exaggerated by the blow hard Gop/Baggers.
I predict we'll hold the line on Nov 2 and might even pick up a couple of seats.
Now if Jari Askins could pull an October surprise on Barbie Fallin I'd be happy.
Thanks Skip. I am pulling very hard for Askins. I met Fallin on a couple of occassions during some training sessions before my retirement. She was very nice but not impressive to me.
She is opposite of what my principles are and therefore will not get my vote and I am trying to get as many votes for Askins as possible.
I think she means Bill Maher.
I know all of you left leaning, Liberal, Socialist are hoping that all the tea party candidates are going to lose but don't let this one crazy lady get you too excited. I am an Independent voter and I would not vote for her either. She has committed political suicide and she just doesn't know it. I just wish the Liberal media would have published all this trash on her before she ran , then she would not have won the primaries, but I guess that was their plan.
I would say to all you socialist libbies out there though, dont get to excited because you are going to take a sever ass whipping in November but ,you more than likely have won this one.
Way to "sever" the "ass whipping" from the mental faculties, so you don't get "to" excited! Allrighty...
joe, Sometimes spell check doesn't work, especially on grammar. Thank goodness you TB's are going to sever that ass from the whipping. A lot less painful that way.
BTW don't count your chickens before they hatch!
Are you still smarting from that severe ass whipping that liberal, socialist, fascist, commie Obama put on your boy in 08? Just sayin'.
ummm...Delaware is a highly democratic state so does not really matter who is running for the Republicans...This was not a state they were counting on..
Granted she is a nutjob but aren't the Democrat nutjobs as well touting the stimulus package?? Health Care will NOT Cost us a Dime?? Cap and Trade is a joke....At least this lady is not making law and voting on bills that will effect us.....If these were all good for the Average American, how come no Democrat is saying "I voted for these and will help you..." they are running away from it.....THOSE ARE THE TRUE NUTJOBS
Gio-2336938
Umm, your wrong, they we're counting on Mike Castle winning and picking up and extra seat in the Senate. Now, they have Christine O'Donnell, and this isn't want they wanted or expected. You never can tell w/ voter animosity especially when the machine is trying to tell them how to vote.
O'Donnell is your problem now, live w/ it
@Gio:
You said: "Delaware is a highly democratic state so does not really matter who is running for the Republicans..."
Did you miss this part of the article: "The Fairleigh-Dickinson poll showed that Castle would be leading a hypothetical matchup with Coons by double digits."
Agree, Gio. Delaware was not even on my list of potential targets. But anyone who thinks that Dems will hold their own and maybe even pick up a couple of seats......you're not living in reality. The independent voters will be swinging the other way this cycle. Repubs may not get a super majority in the House or the Senate, but will easily pick up enough seats to make it close to even numbers.
Rachel's show was really good last night. Enjoyed the interviews with the voters who flat out told the democrats to start running on the good they have done, to start challenging the republicans on why they did not protest the deficit spending from 2001 through Jan 2009.
Also enjoyed Lawrence O'Donnell's show--his interview with Michael Steele was fun. Steele doesn't "do policy", therefore he has no idea what the minimum wage is or if it is good or bad or if the GOP plans to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Obamacare--he just does politics not policy!
Sure your Leftist polling makes you confident, but us Tea Party Republicans know the truth: minorities do not vote.
We will put malt liquor and Corona on sale the week before the election to make sure the blacks and the browns get good and loaded and they will forget to vote all together.
One thing about white people: they VOTE, rain or shine.
Pack your bags, liberals, theres a new wave coming to Washington!
Like I said above... take TWO of the Red pills and call us in the morning!
Curious why you felt it necessary to qualify your rant with WHITE people... I have VOTED in every election since I was of age!!!
Newsflash... in case you didn't know... I'm WHITE so it kinda shoots your theory to @!$%# now doesn't it?
It was outstanding, real people enthused, great interviews. FUN! Rachel is a genuine talent.
Sic-n-tired
One thing about white people: they VOTE, rain or shine.
We will put malt liquor and Corona on sale the week before the election to make sure the blacks and the browns get good and loaded and they will forget to vote all together.
Oh my god, how you dare go there without the facts?
The bodies of three civil-rights workers—two white, one black— were found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson. James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24, had been working to register black voters in Mississippi, and, on June 21, had gone to investigate the burning of a black church. They were arrested by the police on speeding charges, incarcerated for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who murdered them.
Read more: Civil Rights Movement Timeline (14th Amendment, 1964 Act, Human Rights Law) — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html#ixzz11doglRp1
As I’ve said before, the GOP/TP has no sense of history. For over 400 years, Black Americans have proven themselves to be an audacious, resilient, resolute, and respectable people.
That you do not recognize these superfluous qualities demands you check out the history of the voting right of Blacks; despite those obstacles. Btw: in the Election of 1868, President Grant achieved a narrow majority of the popular votes nationwide. Had not President Grant garbed support from Black voters; he would have lost otherwise. The manipulations laid out by the White American society never has broken the will of the Peculiar Institution.
Unambiguous social control apparatuses were put in place prior to the Missouri Compromise, 13th, 14th, 15th amendments despite the thousands of Blacks who sacrificed their lives obtaining the right to vote who exercised that right as long as two centuries ago such as...
Opposition in the former Confederate states developed quickly and took many forms including violent voter intimidation and seems to be recurring because the GOP/TP is advocating unattractively much of the same today with Voter caging.
The Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty, the Eau Claire Tea Party, and the Racine Tea Party are affiliated with the national Tea Party Patriots, which is linked to Koch-funded FreedomWorks. The Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty and the Eau Claire Tea Party are also listed as AFP Wisconsin coalition members.
To recap, it appears that a network of Koch-backed groups killed a proposed Wisconsin law to protect voters, which then cleared the way for an overlapping set of Koch-backed groups to move with an alleged voter suppression plan. What’s more, Koch-funded AFP is currently attempting to further influence the outcome of the election by airing millions of dollars in attack ads targeting Democratic U.S. House and Senate members in Wisconsin and other states.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/22/koch-voter-suppression/
Abraham Lincoln would not recognize the Republican Party of today.
Also to get your peeps out, that all depends on where ya at. From what I've seen most TBs don't know which way is up.
Awesome post Beverly, this is 1950s and 60s revisited with a new name, the Tea Party. It's sad to see the GOP fall so far from the Lincoln GOP.
The GOP is marking another 40 year run for Dems in the WH and beyond.
Arch-75703
Awesome post Beverly, this is 1950s and 60s revisited with a new name, the Tea Party. It's sad to see the GOP fall so far from the Lincoln GOP.
The GOP is marking another 40 year run for Dems in the WH and beyond.
Thank you, I wish more people and TBs could realize we don't need to re-live pre-civil war and Jim Crow days.
The scary part is that she actually has the support of 36 percent of the people.
Those poll numbers confirm for me that they are not to be trusted.
After the hammering Ms. O'Donnell has received in the press the past month there is no way 30% of the people of Delaware support her for that Senate seat. She is not qualified and the good people Delaware know that.
Just no way!
Sheila,
What are the qualifications to be a Senator? You should know before passing judgement.
I'm looking and I don't see anywhere it says you have to be squeaky clean all of your ENTIRE life and a Rhodes Scholar.
"I'm looking and I don't see anywhere it says you have to be squeaky clean all of your ENTIRE life and a Rhodes Scholar" - IntheMiddleTX
I dont think that's even a fraction of what is asked ofODonnell. Take the issue of Rhodes scholar or not: I think most would be happy if they found that she had actually attended just one of the three colleges she had claimed one way or the other over time. Few other politician has remotely this level of issues. Not even Angle. Even Karl Rove denounced her candidacy. Anyone that loves this country should, seriously.
Qualifications for Senator:
http://answers.encyclopedia.com/question/qualifications-becoming-u-s-senator-134902.html
Well TEX the qualifications for a US Senator in Texas are a little different than in the rest of the nation. In Texas you only have to be legally ALIVE and breathing on your own to be a US Senator. It helps if you're brain dead as well. That's a big campaign advantagein the Lone Star State.
Sadly, the same is true north of the Red River.
And in Texas, the only qualifications to be president is to be a village idiot!
Stop ripping on Texas. Don't forget Texas' gift to the world: Check City, Payday Loans, and Rent-a-Center.
Thanks Dem. I also forgot that wonderful gift to the American people - that upright, highly ethical, mental giant Tom Delay!
3 quarters of Congress fit the "Brain Dead" scenario. The other quarter are barely breathing.
Stereotyping Texans is not a classy move...
Having said that.... The only people who would actually vote for this Chritine O'dummy are mice with transplanted human brains.
Skip, That was just to funny! LOL!
V...
I think you got it wrong. It would be "humans with transplanted mice brains." LOL.
Dem in Texas -- my second laugh out loud of the day. How could we forget those gifts!
red-gemini
Ms Christine O'DidIreallysaythat, didn't mention that part of the liberal experimental surgery agenda...
I can only go by the information provided by her eminence the Witless Witch of the Right.
These people are the ones that decided long ago that only republicans can save the world. Most people tend to make a decision and then look for facts that support it (Bush going to Iraq). The intelligent ones look at all the facts and then make a decision. This is why democrats have a wider variety of opinions.
If nothing else it has reinforced my beliefs that people are not actually THAT stupid to vote for this Bible Spice wanna be bimbo!
Just think we get (4) more weeks of revealing insight from her thanks to Bill Maher!
Then with any luck she'll just slink away into the night and have couple of meatballs while practicing her black magic! lol
Feisty
Then with any luck she'll just slink away into the night and have couple of meatballs while practicing her black magic! lol
I think she'll try to fly off on her broomstick as if she's the perfect homemaker, providing of course, it doesn't get stuck in a certain part of her anatomy. She's so stuck up. LOL
Kirk and Brady are falling too in their quests. How 'bout that!
Then with any luck she'll just slink away into the night and have couple of meatballs while practicing her black magic! lol
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Moose Meat meatballs I would bet.
LOL or perhaps some 'mouse-meat' pie... with a side of human brain!
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Hiya Bev! I'm encouraged with what I'm seeing going on in our GREAT state! The races are certainly tightening... we MUST stay vigilant and focused between now and 11.2...
Guess I'll have to hold my nose and put up with Gotcha Gregory to see Alexi clean Kirk the jerk's clock on MTP Sunday! ;0))
The really scary part is that 36% of Delaware thinks so little of the Democrats candidate they would vote for that goofy woman!
I think 36% is just about the base of the republican tea party which might explain it.
I think she is probably a nice person, just like Sarah Palin is probably a nice person--they're just a bit too wing-nutty for me plus they are incurious and lack knowledge about important things like foreign policy and economics. President Bush was not dumb but he was incurious and disinterested in detail and he rarely bothered to ask tough questions.
Gotta disagree with you Jody on Sarah Palin being a nice person... it's been well documented she's a vindictive b!tch!
Look at the e-mail her secessionist husband sent to Joe Miller... trust me the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in that klan! ;0)
Remember... EVEN her kids got in that school teachers face when she dared to asked Sarah a question?
Otherwise... I agree about Christine... she's not bright enough to be mean!
Don't count her out when she fails here. Don't forget, with all her privy info that China is plotting to over throw the US, I'm sure they would reward her services by being their Ambassador to the highy "evolved" mice of Delaware.
Bible Spice - now that is funny and I don't care who you are.....
And when not if she gets a Faux TV Show - her theme song will be
Every time I cast a spell I touch myself
I love big government
but not so big that it:
What we need now is to continue to make government more efficient not reduce or increase it. There are countries with less corporate taxes and where the government is a fraction of ours and does not deliver the first set while delivering the next and business has not created more jobs there (Nigeria for instance with zero - in cases of actual collections - to low taxes, low education, no health care, no unemplyment benefit, high crime, more illness, poor infrastructure, poor traffic and air control, little power supply, resulting in impaired business growth).
Reducing the government so it cant perform the first set of tasks will be a mistake. Increasing it to perform the second task will also be a mistake and will not create more jobs but less. This is where the angry, unrealistic, tea party principles want to take the country - at least for the seemingly sane members of the group.
America things are bad but its insane to vote in the same folks and principles that got us there and even worse to vote in their insane realtives aka the tea bag folks.
Right on!
Excellent post, J Richter! That sums up what government should be and why it is necessary.
well put J Richter! I am a moderate who is sick to death of being called 'liberal' by random "republicans" just because I don't share their extremist, right-wing views. I think you have summed up what many of us think is the role of government in this country
Look at the the MSNBC polls and then look at Gallup,Ipsos,Rasmussen,Wall Street Journal,Zogby,Sabato,Real Clear Politics,etc.For MSNBC to be right everyone else in the country would have to be wrong.Fact is Obama and the Dems. are going to take a big bad beating on Nov. 2nd.Liberals are in dreamland because they don"t want to see it.
joe-1729280
Look at the the MSNBC polls and then look at Gallup,Ipsos,Rasmussen,Wall Street Journal,Zogby,Sabato,Real Clear Politics,etc.For MSNBC to be right everyone else in the country would have to be wrong.Fact is Obama and the Dems. are going to take a big bad beating on Nov. 2nd.Liberals are in dreamland because they don"t want to see it.
What you don't see is the polls show the righties losing instead of gaining; obviously. Better check out an optometrist.
MSNBC does not have a poll to look at.
"A University of Delaware poll released Wednesday showed O'Donnell trailing Democrat Chris Coons by 19 points. And a Fairleigh-Dickinson University poll showed Coons up 53 percent to 36 percent."
Try again
...and it is this point that really highlights the downside of having only 2 major political parties to represent the Country.
I am a big believer in the significant difference between being 'for' something vs. being 'against' something.
The argument is against which party is in power and the name of that party is secondary.
People are frustated at the state of country...the revelation of the strangle hold big business has on law makers...the reality that Wall Street makes money when things 'look' good and probably even more money when things 'look' bad, yet repeated have the connections to bully their way to the front of the line when seeking favors from all levels of government. That the country is built to run on debt, not on common prosperity and equality. It's built to have imbalance and that divide only seems to get wider and wider.
Bottom line a vote 'against' the party in power is not a vote 'for' the party not in power, but because of the political structure that is all that can happen.
Republicans and their pundits can rejoice that their Party may regain a meausure of control in the Congress, but from where I sit it is a result of default, not something earned via merit.
The moral of this story is to get out and vote in the primary. Otherwise you get nut-jobs like this that can't even discuss the issues. Democracy works best when we are arguing over governing philosophy rather than diplomas, witchcraft, and mouse brains.
"The moral of this story is to get out and vote in the primary."
Exactly! Don't forget about South Carolina and Alvin Greene.
Didn't Coon's expouse Marxist beliefs? I guess that's not a problem for the folks in Delaware.
In college, while he was a member of the Young Republicans, in jest..... The good folks in Delaware, like myself, Read...... Try it sometime....
Dahly-1755482: Didn't Coon's expouse Marxist beliefs? I guess that's not a problem for the folks in Delaware.
No he did not. That is just the spin that was put on it by Hannity and others. He repeated a statement of some of his friends that gave him a nickname in "fun". The statement was made by Coons, according to what I understand, while addressing a gathering. I heard the statement, although I can't remember all the details, and immediately knew what was meant.
Wouldn't a true vote against the party in power be one for the individual who runs as neither the republican or the democrat? Both of those parties appear to be different in name only.
Dahly-
You got it all wrong! Probably on FOX NEWS.
He wrote a satirical piece for his college newspaper.
Nothing to see here.
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I am a Castle Republican... which is to say a dying breed... But O'Donnell won't get over 40% of the vote. Again, she won in a closed Republican primary. If you don't know Delaware, the bottom 2 counties are like Alabama and Mississippi. The Upper County, and biggest by far, is a cross between Philly, DC, and NY in population. Remember... this is where all the banks and other industries incorporate. Believe me when I say, We are reasonable and like to work out problems... not demonize our opponents. Not only will she cost the Senate race... she is having a drag on the whole Republican ticket in our state. The congressional seat, formerly held by Castle, will go to a Democrat as well. Can you say BONE HEAD MOVE?????
Thank you! Thank you! Thank yoooou! MS. O'Donnell! We need more Republicans like "You"!
Honesty will provail as Rachel proved last night you dont run away if you dont have anything to hide thats why the dems were there in force
Who gives a &**(() what Rachel Maddow has to say.
Everyone is focusing on one insignificant state "Delaware" to say, "hey the teabaggers are wrong bla bla, look across the country, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania etc etc. these states are going to boot out democrats,
Why is this you might add, Well I believe we have reached critical mass with social programs, we have enough and dont want more, We have medicaid medicare, SSI with more and more people using these 3 big programs its enough.
So in saying that, and knowing that democrats always want more social programs then youve got nothing to offer but more of that. If the people who have a job and worked hard for there career dont see the need for more of these programs, then it will not happen no matter how much you complain and want people to submit to big government they will not.
Focusing on Delaware as a product of how the whole country might vote is ridiculous to say the least.
Doug-125012
Well I believe we have reached critical mass with social programs, we have enough and dont want more, We have medicaid medicare, SSI with more and more people using these 3 big programs its enough.
Doug, the programs you mention have been around for decades and they are not all considered "social" programs. Both SS and Medicare are paid into by the recipient. As well, the use of these programs HAS increased as has the US population. See below:
SS, created in 1935 when US pop. was 120M+
Medicare, created in 1945 when US pop. was 130M+
Medicaid, created in 1965 when US pop. was 180M+
Todays estimated population is 310M+
So yes, more people are using the programs because our population has exploded.
Given the size of our poplulation as compared to 4 or 5 decades ago we can't really expect our government to get smaller and maintain it's ability to protect the citizenry.
We CAN certainly demand more efficiency. Maybe we should use this as the base for everyone coming together. Isn't this something we can ALL agree on?
Hey Doug...
I'm pretty sure that I remember a lot of hooplah from you tright-wingers about Scott brown's victory in Massissachuits being a "mandate" against the Obama administration. You cant have it both ways!!!
What about the wiccan pole? where does she stand there?
What a Teabagger skank.
It's disturbing enough that 36% supports her.
It is very disturbing that 40% still support Obama. I feel your pain.
". . . the Palinesque perennial candidate . . ."
That's what we have here: Attack of the Bimbos!
The American people were tricked twiced by the Bush and Karl Rove group; hopefully the people are seeing through these tribal groups that are only trying to cause destruction to this great nation! The tea party are nothing but a second group of Bushs people.
Thank you ,Delaware
Don't you mean Delawitch?
 Can't she just wrinkle her nose and win the election ... oh wait, she is NOT a witch ... never mind.
I don't think the country is ready to give the keys to the country back to Conservatives after their last 8 year stint....
I'm sorry she's not going to win. It would have been a lot of fun hearing her rail against masturbation on the Senate floor every day for the next several years.
I nearly spat out my Diet Coke at this, Matthew! Thanks for the visual...
The proof will be apparent this November.
I look forward to the thrashing the neo-Socialists will receive.
I look forward to seeing a lot of the loony left eating a big old piece of humble pie!
Listening to Limbaugh is detrimental to your well being dude.
Steven... She will lose.... You don't have to wait for November.... I live here and know a lot of the same people.... She is not a mean person, just not very bright and trust me ... she never expected to beat Mike Castle... Now she doesn't know what to do....
Steven,
Liberals and or Progressive if you like have been around a long, long time. Win, lose or draw we will still be here to stick it to you. Do the names Theodore Roosevelt or William Jennings Bryan ring any bells? Like I said we will be here to stick it to you win, lose or draw. So ENJOOOOOY!
Bite down HARD tea heads. This is only the beginning of wiping your fantasies away. DOWN the DRAIN with the swill.
Two college polls? LOL! Yeah, no bias there. I wonder what the sampling was? "Like the people in the Poli-sci class totally don't like her". I can't wait for November 2nd! It will be a blood-bath for libs! O'Donnell may not win, but with Feingold and Reid and all the others most likely losing, the Obama agenda will be totally destroyed! Thank God. Say no to Marxism!!!
Rick, how exactly is Obama, or the Dems marxist? I would like to hear your definition of Marxism. And please remember, Karl Marx himself claimed to not like the communist parties that existed at the time he wrote the Communist Manifesto. If you really equate modern Democrates or Obama to Marx then you clearly have no clue what Marxism truly is.
Rick, turn your TV off beck and co. are turning your brain to mush like the rest of the followers...marxism? hahahaha
Dem in Texas (my but you must feel lonely, unless you live in Austin)
In RICK-WORLD a "Marxist" is anybody who does not agree with him or Rush or Sean or Ann, she-wolf of the SS. Or just anybody that Glenn Beck has'nt already labeled a Nazi/Commie/Marxist/Pinko/Progressive/Fag/Child Molester-pick one.
Skip,
Yes, my existence is pretty sad here in Dallas when it comes to talking politics. That aside I have to laugh at the idiots who call Obama a Marxist/Socialist/Communist. I work with many foreign born U.S. citizens. Many of them grew up under real socialism. They just scratch their heads at the Communist/Socialist labels we throw at our politicians.
If for some unknown reason the repubs get enough votes I will personally buy all the veto pens President Obama needs to do what you repubs have done for the last 20 months Obstruct, Obstruct.
Delaware here. its easy as ABC: anyone but Coons. The first state has stormed the Castle, now its time for the Nation to fire the Monarchy! The Republic will be restored!
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We should all just write in Jesus. Then maybe he'd come back and save our country.
Uh Mitch, a little early for cocktails don't you think?
Mitch must be from Kent or Sussex..... otherwise known as Alabama or Mississippi..... 8th grade education is standard there....
Huh?
Monty must be from Wilmington, also known as the peoples republic of New Castle. Probably was at the tavern last night getting all excited listening to the DNC propaganda spewing from Madcows udders, and actually believing it. Monty, just go back to your Chardonnay and baked brie. Your way too intelligent for us to understand you, obviously your so much better and more advanced than we are.
I guess the Becca rally didn't change America as much as he'd hoped....
IntheMiddle, TX
The media destroyed this lady. I didn't see where all of that lefty Mahr's clips from high school was relevant.
I was hoping our distant relationship would be come more relevant for US, brother, down yonder as you pop-off your judgments w/o irresponsible foolishness.
I'm looking and I don't see anywhere it says you have to be squeaky clean all of your ENTIRE life and a Rhodes Scholar.
What you need to see is that she is an un-convicted felon. Her skeeza activities merit it.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) cities former campaign staff member Kristin Murray, made robocalls informing voters that Ms. O'Donnell "was living on campaign donations using them for rent and personal expenses, and did not pay her workers.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/blog/christine-odonnell-cant-outrun-her-past
Cristine O'Donnell is suspected of tax fraud, has not a clue about modern science, is homophobic, talked about stopping Americans from having sex, and thinks she has classified intel on China.