Smackdown from the ‘Burbs
posted at 9:50 am on November 5, 2009 by Howard Portnoy
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Now that the dust of Tuesday’s elections has begun to settle, the official word is in: Exit polls confirm that the Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey should not be seen as a referendum on Barack Obama’s utter mismanagement of the country in his altogether too long tenure as president. Exit polls, schmexit polls. The key difference between the election of 2008 and the elections of 2009 is the white, middle class suburbanites who would have an ‘(I)’ after their name if they were running for elective office. They voted for Obama in 2008. And they voted against him on Tuesday.
Yeah, that’s right — the “teabaggers.”I guess those protests were more than just a scattering of angry non-representative airheads after all.
The numbers are revealing. There was a 13-percent shift in support from Democrat to Republican in Virginia, and a 12-point shift in New Jersey. There was even an 8-percent shift in Pennsylvania’s 23rd Congressional District, which helped elect Obama in 2008.
The Democrat spin doctors are everywhere, explaining variously why these are state races and they don’t count (Axelrod), or why the really important race was the one in NY 23 (Pelosi), which should help pass health care reform. They are free to spin till their eyes bug out (which ship sailed long ago for the Speaker of the House). Nothing will change the fact that 2010 looms ominously for the Democrats. Obama isn’t on the ticket, which means it will be hard to get the voting-age children and blacks involved.
And then there’s those scary folks from the ‘burbs. However is the White House going to regain their favor between now and then?
Cross-posted at Zombie Contentions
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Simple: admit they were wrong on everything, withdraw all pending legislation, take a pay cut, actively engage in gutting most of the regulations that hinder our economy, and lead the charge to vote in term limits, keep the knuckleheads in Gitmo, finish the border fence, cut taxes, apologize to the American People for apologizing around the world about us (maybe bomb something as an emphasis), and after all that’s done, pass into obscurity
You asked..
Robert17 on November 5, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Robert17 on November 5, 2009 at 10:12 AM
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Heh. That’d get both the far-right *and* far-left going against ‘em.
No, the way they’re going to try to win back the independents is by turning the economy with all the stimulus dollars that weren’t spent yet. If they can pump enough dollars into local economies between now and November to make the average pocketbook look good, they win.
Mew
acat on November 5, 2009 at 10:54 AM
That won’t happen, acat. Suburbanites are scared about falling house prices, lost or endangered jobs, and college costs. They don’t understand all the bailouts for union workers while their companies are shrinking and they and their neighbors continue to lose their jobs and are unable to find new ones. They can’t sell their houses because nobody is buying. They are staring at a Christmas when they might not be able to afford any presents for their kids at all.
And they see a White House and Congress continuing to borrow and spend like drunken sailors, kowtowing to unions, demonizing the businesses they work for, and ramming a trillion-dollar health care bill down their throats. It’s Chicago on the Potomac, and suburbanites see nothing there for them.
rockmom on November 5, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Just wait until the retail figures come in for the Christmas season. They will be terrible and many retailers will be going out of business afterwards because they know that things will only get worse with the massive tax increases, “fees” and everything else coming next year to pay for “Hope and Change(TM)”.
That will set off another round of massive job losses as those businesses and the businesses who supply them go under. The Commercial real estate market will crumble to dust as they lose tenants and can not rent their properties because no one is opening any businesses and the people who still have homes are foreclosed on because they can no longer pay their mortgages because they lost their jobs. That will place a further burden on the financial system which, of course, we will end up bailing out the banks again with our tax dollars which will mean even more taxes.
Add this together will all the other crap coming out of the Obama regime and it makes for a very bad situation.
Nahanni on November 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM
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Look out Blue Dogs and RINOS. INCOMING!!
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John Bibb
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rocketman on November 5, 2009 at 12:38 PM