Sucks to be Debbie Wasserman Schultz today, true, but Drudge is having a good time:
Dem Party leaders mobilizing to solidify president's standing with Jewish voters to counter image Obama not friend of Israel... NYT setting story for lead Thursday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE... Comes after shock defeat of Dem candidate... DEVELOPING...
Sucks to be Obama today too, I bet... I almost feel like I should be throwing a life ring out in the pool
The upshot of all this, I think, will be that the Democrats will try again to put a far left wing progressive in the White House the next chance they get.
Their rationale will be "We picked the wrong one last time." They'll say Obama failed to stay true to his leftist ideology and constituencey, and they'll nominate someone who is just as far left, but who they hope won't have Obama's failing.
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OBTW just read on Drudge the spin DNC Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was saying: it's a very difficult district for Democrats"
HUH? You held it for almost 90 yrs, since 1923. If that is a very difficult district, I would love to see the easy districts! Also, it is a 3 to 1 ratio of registered Dems to Repubs.
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It is a statement to Obama and also the DNC. They are trying to drive home to them their dissatisfaction.
My Mom and IL's live in NJ, which is also heavily dem. Both live in adult communities (different ones in different towns). Both have said nobody in their area supports Obama anymore like they did back in 07/08. The interesting thing it is not about health care or SS, but about JOBS. Understand they are retired. Even though they are retired they have seen their children lose their jobs, and their grandchildren unable to get a job even after attending prestigious colleges.
The JOB issue will touch everyone, and Obama can no longer blame this on Bush. He can blame it on Congress, but as one President once said...THE BUCK STOPS HERE, that is how Americans will see it.
NYers were sending a message, let's be real, the guy will only be there for 13 months, not long enough to do damage in their minds. It was a strong signal to him and the DNC don't take NY for granted!
Obama right now needs to say a nightly prayer that Bachmann gets the nom., otherwise he may be a 1 term President, and worse yet for him, he may be referred as the Jimmy Carter for the 21st century. Granted, they won't talk about 18% home loans, but they will be saying highest amount of foreclosures, 9% unemployment, a stockmarket that remained flat for 4 yrs, gas prices rising, gold prices hitting highs like Carter, never closing Gitmo, poor relations with Israel, etc. etc. etc.
-- Edited by pima on Wednesday 14th of September 2011 06:46:01 AM
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Seriously, I think the real answer is "all of the above."
Fox news has a pollster on regularly. He gets about 50 people together, 25 from each side, and asks them questions.
In the most recent segment I saw, he asked for a show of hands of everyone who was fed up with government (I don't remember the exact question but that was the gist of it), and all but about three people raised their hands.
So, i think this was a statement about Obama, I think for some voters it was a statement about the Democrats shoving Obamacare down America's throat, I think some voters it was a sttement about the unconstitutional part of Obamacare that requires people to buy a commercial product (again, the nanny state shoving things down our throat against our will "for our own good," and yes, people are still angry about that, and will be, through the 2012 election), I think it was a statement about the two candidates who were running in this particular election (all politics is local), and I think it was, a teenie bit, about Weiner.
Any way you look at it the news is not good for Obama and the Dems. Of couse, things can change between now and 11/12, and there may be some suprises within the individual congressional and senatorial races, the best possible case won't happen for either side, but on the whole, the electoral map on election day plus one will be mostly red and we'll have a new president.
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With the outcome of his own reelection effort 14 difficult months away, President Obama suffered a sharp rebuke Tuesday when voters in New York elected a conservative Republican to represent a Democratic district that has not been in GOP hands since the 1920s.
Bob Turner, the winner, cast the election as a referendum on Obama’s stewardship of the economy and, in the state’s Ninth Congressional District, which has a large population of Orthodox Jewish voters, the president’s position on Israel.
