From: bknight on 19 May 2010 13:01 On Wed, 19 May 2010 09:28:49 -0700 (PDT), "John B." <johnb505(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On May 19, 11:52�am, "MNMikeW" <MNMiik...(a)aol.com> wrote: >> "kenpitts" <ken.p...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> WASHINGTON - Tuesday's balloting is a fresh reminder of what all the >> combatants have understood for months: It's a lousy year to be a Democrat, >> an incumbent or President Obama. > >Only one race yesterday pitted a Dem against a Republican and the Dem >won. Funny how the Daily News failed to mention that. The prevailing >public mood is not anti-Democrat, it's anti-incumbent. GOP Sen. Bob >Bennett of Utah, a staunch conservative, lost last week in a primary. >If current economic trends continue between now and November, it's >going to hard to mount a rational argument against Obama and >congressional Democrats. Now that I think of it, most of the ones I've >heard since he was elected haven't been rational. Rationality has little to do with politics. BK
From: Don Kirkman on 19 May 2010 18:32
On Wed, 19 May 2010 11:41:06 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com> wrote: > >"John B." <johnb505(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >news:7bdfd744-488b-4994-b053-2ae903e4bd91(a)40g2000vbr.googlegroups.com... >On May 19, 11:52 am, "MNMikeW" <MNMiik...(a)aol.com> wrote: >> "kenpitts" <ken.p...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> It's already started ken. >> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/05/19/2010-05-19_10_pro... >> WASHINGTON - Tuesday's balloting is a fresh reminder of what all the >> combatants have understood for months: It's a lousy year to be a Democrat, >> an incumbent or President Obama. >Only one race yesterday pitted a Dem against a Republican and the Dem >won. Funny how the Daily News failed to mention that. The prevailing >public mood is not anti-Democrat, it's anti-incumbent. GOP Sen. Bob >Bennett of Utah, a staunch conservative, lost last week in a primary. Actually he didn't. A primary might paint a more reliable picture, but in fact Bennett was third in a three way race within the Republican Convention. Not the thousands of real people in a primary but a few hundred pro- or semi-pro politicos. -- Don Kirkman donsno2(a)charter.net |