Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Friday, October 29, 2010 11:25:17 PM
I just hope we aren't setting ourselves up for a disappointment, even if the results are pretty good. When people are throwing around ideas that Republicans can win 100 new seats in the house, what happens if only 50 are won? We cannot allow Democrats to minimize this election if 100 seats aren't won. We should be happy the direction of the voters has shifted away from the Democrats finally. It was difficult to watch the elections of 2006 and 2008 because they didn't need to happen the way they did.
But even if Republicans win pretty big on Tuesday, the majority won't be very big. This election is just the warm-up for 2012. Democrats will be more ready in 2012 once the shock of this year is over. They will be more ready then, as fewer will ignore that Obamacare (and Obama himself) has cost them big.
A poster at another website has a very good point too, in all to many cases we are only taking back what should be Republican seats all the time. In a lot of cases we will be getting rid of the few conservatives left in the Democrat party! Why is it that not so conservative Democrats can win and hold on to (in some cases a very long time)a seat in a Republican state? Why has there been a Democrat senator (Evan Bayh) from a red state like Indiana for so long (thankfully that will be over this time) when a not that conservative Republican like Scott Brown are quite rare in blue states like Massachusetts?
The party needs to lock down more Republican states like the Democrats have in their states. So we don't have to keep re-wining the same areas over and over. We will never have any success at chipping away at their states if we have to defend areas that should never be in play.
Republicans will someday have to battle for the voters that the Democrats take for granted. We need to break this vote for the Democrat automatic disease in urban areas and the working class. How, I don't know, since Democrats haven't helped urban areas or working people ever, but yet control the declining cities and unions year after year.
Other wise we will continue to have elections like this one where power shifts from one party to the other getting us nowhere, making the country weaker and weaker as time goes on. The battle needs to move to Democrat dominated areas of the country and they need to be won, but we have to lock down solid Republicans as well and keep them that way.
Otherwise there will never be a generation of Conservative dominated federal government and no reform. Its clear that the Democrats don't wish that the country get better. So they have to go.
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