The Reason Democrats will be slaughtered...

[Yonivore]

...at the polls this November:

ZR6A3d2vkcY

Let's see if I understood his campaign ad...and, before you ask, yes; I think this is one Democrat that intends to keep his campaign promises

Promise to deny you access to affordable energy.

Promise to continue screwing the economies of the Gulf States.

Promise to follow the Michigan plan to economic stability.

Yep, the environment...that's what this November is all about. The environment.

[ChumpDumper]

YouTube fail.

Ask DarrinS how to post them.

[Wild Cobra]

Fixed:
...at the polls this November:

ZR6A3d2vkcY

Let's see if I understood his campaign ad...and, before you ask, yes; I think this is one Democrat that intends to keep his campaign promises

Promise to deny you access to affordable energy.

Promise to continue screwing the economies of the Gulf States.

Promise to follow the Michigan plan to economic stability.

Yep, the environment...that's what this November is all about. The environment.

[fraga]

...at the polls this November:

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Let's see if I understood his campaign ad...and, before you ask, yes; I think this is one Democrat that intends to keep his campaign promises

Promise to deny you access to affordable energy.

Promise to continue screwing the economies of the Gulf States.

Promise to follow the Michigan plan to economic stability.

Yep, the environment...that's what this November is all about. The environment.

http://www.muppetonlinegamers.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/you_fail_at_failing.jpg

[CuckingFunt]

http://www.muppetonlinegamers.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/you_fail_at_failing.jpg

Damn quick edit. This post was funnier before you fixed your quote error.

[ChumpDumper]

Let's see if I understood his campaign ad...Nope, you didn't.

[CuckingFunt]

Nope, you didn't.

But he actually watched the ad he posted. That's progress, at least.

[Oh, Gee!!]

given the BP debacle, I don't see how this ad is going to harm his candidacy.

[ChumpDumper]

BTW, had yoni ever read an article, he would know that Blumenthal was 10 points ahead of his Republican opponent at the time of the last poll. It's a tightening race, but no slaughter.

[Nbadan]

...can't wait till the tea baggers screw this up..

[LnGrrrR]

This ad is so important, I took the time to watch it!

[Nbadan]

Time for the Pundits to Take a Deep Breath -- Why Democrats Will Not Be Routed In November..



Two years ago today, just two months before the 2008 Election, John McCain led Barack Obama for president in the compilation of national polls assembled by Pollster.com. The Democratic polling project at Democracy Corps had McCain up by two points. As everyone knows, on Election Day Obama beat McCain 53% to 46%. A lot can change in 56 days.

Time for the pundits and prognosticators to take a deep breath. Despite all of their dire predictions of Democratic demise, the Republicans have not yet seized control of either chamber and I, for one, predict that they won't any time soon.

Democrats will certainly take losses in the coming Midterms. But the odds are good that they will emerge from the elections with working majorities in both houses.

No one doubts that pulling the economy out of the massive ditch into which it careened under George Bush has, and continues to be, a Herculean task. It is, of course, a task that has been made much more difficult by the virtually unified opposition of Republicans to Democratic initiatives to energize the economy. Two years of economic pain have made voters unhappy.

And this difficulty is compounded by the natural tendency of voters to turn out Members of Congress from the President's party in the first Mid-term after his inauguration.

However, six major factors will work to limit Democratic losses.

1). The voters do not view Republicans as the answer to America's problems. And in fact, a late August NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that they actually have a less favorable view of Republicans than Democrats.

It is true that only 36% viewed Democrats positively compared with 43% who view Democrats negatively. But a mere 30% view Republicans positively compared with 43% who view them negatively.

In the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, voters were split down the middle (43% to 43%) as to whether they preferred Republican or Democratic control of Congress. There is every indication that this will be the Republican high water mark as voters begin to focus in on the race and Democrats begin to introduce them -- and their beliefs -- to their Republican opponents.

2).The Republicans' major institutional allies are viewed with even more approbation than the Party itself. The economy has made voters sour on elites of all sorts. They are furious with Wall Street (10% positive to 53% negative), Corporate America (12% positive to 42% negative), and the Health Insurance Industry (12% positive to 56% negative).

If Democratic candidates do their job of connecting their Republican opponents with their base constituencies, their support will plummet.

The critical issue for Democrats is to establish that they are populist outsiders, not elitist insiders. That dynamic is much more important in the coming election than whether a candidate is a Republican or Democrat.

3). There is not a large-scale inclination among voters to reject progressive-Democratic values and adopt conservative-Republican values in their place. When the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll asked if Government should do more, or whether it is doing too many things, voters divided evenly 47% to 47%. When presented a core Democratic and core Republican message, the same number of voters (25% ) found the Democratic message very convincing as those who found the Republican message very convincing.

4). Elections are not simply referenda on the state of the country or the economy. They are choices between two candidates. In a generic context, voters can be angry and dismissive about a current officeholder if they are unhappy with the current state of their lives. But if Democrats do their jobs right, each race will be turned into a choice between two living, breathing people. The more that voters focus on the Republican alternative, the less abstract that choice will become -- the more they will become acquainted with the qualities of the alternative. Whereas once they might have been happy to throw the incumbent out, they will become increasingly focused on the fact that he or she will be replaced by someone else who has negatives of his own.

Voters cast their ballots for people - not concepts. One of the big advantages for Democrats this cycle is that many Republican nominees are politically inexperienced radical extremists whose views -- once voters learn them -- are completely outside of the mainstream of American politics.

The best known are Tea Party-Republican Senate candidates like Sharron Angle in Nevada who wants to replace Medicare with vouchers for private insurance, Rand Paul in Kentucky who opposes the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Joe Miller in Alaska who wants to phase out Social Security, and then there is the potential nominee in Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, who opposes masturbation.

And there are many lesser-known House candidates who are just as extreme in their views - and who have no economic program other than the proposals that were put in place by President Bush, that yielded the worst economic collapse in sixty years and cost eight million Americans their jobs.

Some of the positions these candidates take are downright radioactive. The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that only 21% of voters were either totally enthusiastic or comfortable with privatizing Social Security, whereas 68% were either very uncomfortable or had some reservations about it -- a difference of 47%. And feelings were intense. Forty-nine percent said they felt very uncomfortable about privatization, while only 9% were enthusiastic.

As they come to know these people -- and their views, and other negatives that will be exposed in the course of the campaign -- many of voters who might have considered voting against a Democratic incumbent in the abstract will reconsider.

What's more, many Democrats begin with sizeable positives with voters that they have developed over many years of constituent services, and personal relationships.

Huff (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/time-for-the-pundits-to-t_b_708721.html)