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Gallup's recent tracking of the generic ballot for Congress has shown the Republicans with substantial leads over the Democrats among likely voters, in part because the underlying registered voter population leans Republican in its vote choice. Compared with previous elections, that tilt is an extraordinary positioning for the Republicans, who typically do no better than tie the Democrats among registered voters. The GOP's position is further enhanced by the generally strong proclivity of Republicans to turn out to vote, which appears to be even greater than usual this year.
In some important demographic respects -- namely, gender, age, and education -- 2010 midterm voters will be quite typical of past electorates. However, should the figures reported here hold through the final poll conducted this coming weekend, this will be only the second time in the last five midterm elections in which the majority of voters on Election Day were Republican in their party identification or leanings, likely exceeding the 51% found in 2002. Much of this is explained by a surge in Republican-leaning independents.
Blah, who cares who runs the show. Neither side is worth the used gum on the bottom of my shoe. Republicans will gain control but will they help with the current deficit problem, I'm beyond pessimistic. They'll lower taxes, oh goody (for the current generations anyway). But, I am vere pessimistic concerning whether they'll even cut enough from the budget to make up for the tax breaks, let alone the expenditures catapulting our current deficit. Neither party has big enough gonads to do what is necessary to curb the deficit.
I normally would agree with most of that, and in fact, I still do to an great extent. But this time might be different. I'm not a tea partier per se - I'm neither here nor there with them - but what I do think they've brought to the table hopefully, is that Americans are more cognizant, and will pay far greater attention, to what their elected folks do. Incumbents will be in trouble again in 2012.
The GOP needs to flood Obama will bills reflecting what Americans want done. Make him veto these bills, or get on board like Clinton did when the same thing happened to him in 1994. If he vetoes the bills, America will know beforehand what bills they can expect immediately upon replacing Obama with a conservative president in 2012.
That way, instead of having and American Idol type election like last time, the 2012 presidential election will be about real policy.
Blah, who cares who runs the show. Neither side is worth the used gum on the bottom of my shoe. Republicans will gain control but will they help with the current deficit problem, I'm beyond pessimistic. They'll lower taxes, oh goody (for the current generations anyway). But, I am vere pessimistic concerning whether they'll even cut enough from the budget to make up for the tax breaks, let alone the expenditures catapulting our current deficit. Neither party has big enough gonads to do what is necessary to curb the deficit.
I don't expect the Republicans to, "do", anything. In fact, I don't want them to, "do", anything. It's all the, "doing", things that has sucked the confidence out of the private sector. That absence of confidence has caused the recession to linger on. As long as we have a government that understands that government can't create jobs and can't create wealth, the economy will prosper. While we have a government that thinks that the answer to our economic problems is fewer jobs and more taxes, then right here is where we'll staty.
So, you have no desire to curb the deficit then?
I wish I had your optimism but when I fail to see any Tea Party type candidates giving real examples of how they will curb the deficit, my pessimism sets in. I just hear reduce taxes, cut costs! Well, what exactly are you going to cut? Cuts to many areas will only do so much unless you completely get rid of a whole bunch of deparments. Even then, there will still need to be cuts beyond that considering most of our budget relates to Defense, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Interest on our debt. Nobody seems to want to touch these things other than to "privatize" one or more of those. I want to see details before my optimism becomes reality. Until then, not so much.
The answer is, and has always been, free market. You can't fix problems by just taking more money away from people. That just plugs one hole and creates ten more.
Don't focus on the Tea Party "candidates" so much. This movement is just a faction of conservatives that is standing up to its own very flawed party and demanding that it adhere to its principles. Republicans in recent years have been so sensitive to media and pop culture characterizations that they've abandoned the ideals they were elected on. It's still the Republican party, but a shift back to core principles is needed to earn this faction's support.
The first line of business will be to repeal all the incredible damage Obama has done, and start from there.
I'll agree with you when it comes to not increasing taxes anywhere during tough economic times. We aren't out of the woods yet. But, I am not betting on Republicans fixing the budget deficit problem once we gain a stronger foothold from an economic standpoint either.
From what I have seen regarding "core prinipals", Republicans won't touch things like Defense and Medicare. We can't afford to have a military as large as the one we do today if we aren't willing to pony up the related tax receipts. And we cannot continue funding Medicare/Medicaid with payroll receipts that only cover about 1/3 of the cost. So, it's going to take a bit more than "core principals" to get this train back on track for the future.
I don't really see how a repeal would be effective considering Obama will surely veto anything that comes his way related to that. There will be a majority of Republicans in congress more than likely but it will probably be a very slim majority. I just don't see a 2/3rds vote being a realistic scenario. Please clue me in if you think I am mistaken.
I disagree entirely on the military being too big. It can't be big enough. That is the only thing that can keep China and Russia at bay for the foreseeable future.
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Ok, this is where I start disagreeing with most Republicans. If we can't raise taxes, touch social security, medicare or defense we have to get rid of, I mean $0 allocated to, every other program that the government runs, completely. We have what is expected to be a $0.8 Billion to $1 Trillion deficit every year through 2020. Every other program that is not associated with Defense, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Interest on our debt is right around $1 Trillion so there will be nothing left, not enough to run anything on anyway, for any other government progrom if we are to balance the budget. That means no:
Department of Agriculture
Commerce
Education (Including any vouchers)
Energy
HHS
Homeland Security
Housing and Urban Development
Interior
Justice
Labor
Transportation
Treasury
Veterans Affairs
NASA
EPA
SSA
Etc, Etc, Etc
I'm sure you are ok with getting rid of some of these, but are you ok with getting rid of them all? That is the question.
Blah, who cares who runs the show. Neither side is worth the used gum on the bottom of my shoe. Republicans will gain control but will they help with the current deficit problem, I'm beyond pessimistic. They'll lower taxes, oh goody (for the current generations anyway). But, I am vere pessimistic concerning whether they'll even cut enough from the budget to make up for the tax breaks, let alone the expenditures catapulting our current deficit. Neither party has big enough gonads to do what is necessary to curb the deficit.
I disagree entirely on the military being too big. It can't be big enough. That is the only thing that can keep China and Russia at bay for the foreseeable future.
Did you once think about all the spending the democrats were doing in the past 4 years causing record debt numbers to be scattered? Yet the left was belly aching how republicans were spending the grand kids money when they were in control are now all of a sudden worrying about deficits again after putting us deeper in the hole than anytime in our history.
This is why I don't have any faith in conservative politics. Until we kill the golden calf, nothing will change.
Why self professed conservatives throw all humbleness aside when dealing with military might I will never get.
how many times do we have to see war sentiment change on the turn of the dime before we realize this country operates on a set of rules that prevents us from having a stable consist foreign policy.
Our rules are setup to protect individual rights, not to maintain order around the world. Every election we can completely change our foreign policy, which makes us appear to suffer from schizophrenia. That is no way to operate!
Oh thank God somebody gets it. I salute you sir.
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