From: bknight on
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
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