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Anonymous wrote:the wide margn of the walker election is shocking. This shows the tea party is still on a roll. Mcdnald.. Then christy... The Scott brown... Then the 2010 blowout from cngress down to dog catcher . Now walker sets the stage for a November democrat demolition party.

I assume you mean Gov. McDonnell of VA? And Chris Christie of NJ (who is most decidedly NOT a Tea Party adherent)? You'd be taken a lot more seriously if you knew the names of the candidates you support.

Anonymous wrote:the wide margn of the walker election is shocking. This shows the tea party is still on a roll. Mcdnald.. Then christy... The Scott brown... Then the 2010 blowout from cngress down to dog catcher . Now walker sets the stage for a November democrat demolition party.

Anonymous wrote:the wide margn of the walker election is shocking. This shows the tea party is still on a roll. Mcdnald.. Then christy... The Scott brown... Then the 2010 blowout from cngress down to dog catcher . Now walker sets the stage for a November democrat demolition party.

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So Obama is the crazy left? lol...the democrats are centrist, Obama is about as far left as ...gasp...Reagan


Not all of the democrats are centrist. In fact, the Democratic part is moving further left. The Blue Dog Democrats were the centrist ones and they were decimated by the last mid-term elections. While Obama leans towards the moderate left, he is still left of center, but also significantly more moderate than many in the party such as Pelosi, Reid, and company.

Wrong

Keith Poole of the University of Georgia, with his collaborator Howard Rosenthal of New York University, has spent decades charting the ideological shifts and polarization of the political parties in Congress from the 18th century until now to get the view of how the political landscape has changed from 30,000 feet up. What they have found is that the Republican Party is the most conservative it has been a century.....That said, Poole says the data are hard to deny; the polarization is largely due to how far and relatively quickly Republicans have shifted to the right end of the ideological spectrum

Anonymous wrote:
So Obama is the crazy left? lol...the democrats are centrist, Obama is about as far left as ...gasp...Reagan


Not all of the democrats are centrist. In fact, the Democratic part is moving further left. The Blue Dog Democrats were the centrist ones and they were decimated by the last mid-term elections. While Obama leans towards the moderate left, he is still left of center, but also significantly more moderate than many in the party such as Pelosi, Reid, and company.

Keith Poole of the University of Georgia, with his collaborator Howard Rosenthal of New York University, has spent decades charting the ideological shifts and polarization of the political parties in Congress from the 18th century until now to get the view of how the political landscape has changed from 30,000 feet up. What they have found is that the Republican Party is the most conservative it has been a century.....That said, Poole says the data are hard to deny; the polarization is largely due to how far and relatively quickly Republicans have shifted to the right end of the ideological spectrum

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Anonymous wrote:50-50, he could easily lose and on the merits of his performance, that would be justified IMO (I voted for him & will again but with no enthusiasm this time).

Electoral math favors him, he has more sold states and 212 or so votes locked ...

But he could easily lose, he seems to have squandered so many opportunities to lead more strongly or to take advantage politically of various events and has done neither IMO.

Current economic trend & Europe makes it look bad for him, but see the underlying electoral advantage he has starting out.... it's a toss up.

This...completely.

I believe he will probably win, but not if the economy goes into a tailspin again b/c of Europe. In that case, he is toast.

I will also vote for him again. Not necessarily b/c I think Romney is particularly horrible (of all the Republican candidates, he seems the most moderate to me, and I like that), but I'm worried he will be indebted to the crazy Evangelical conservative right and will be in the position to do a whole lot of harm if Repubs control Congress as well.

but the crazy left is ok

The crazy left is not holding the government hostage.