October 29, 2010

Rejecting Democrats in 2010

By Carl Paulus
Voters are set to punish Democrats next Tuesday. In 2006 and 2008, the American electorate punished Republicans, for just the opposite reason. The Republican Party is looking to emerge from this November with one of the largest midterm election victories in the last century. Scott Rasmussen estimates that the GOP is going to gain 55 House seats. Jay Cost of Real Clear Politics contends that it could be 61 seats picked up. Even Charlie Cook says that the Republicans could gain at least 40 seats. All of these scenarios would lead to a new Speaker of the House starting this January.  Many excuses and accusations will follow in the wake of the November midterm election. Democrats will blame everything and anyone but themselves, reciting a familiar list of reasons why the populace did not vote for them: racism against our first African-American president, Sarah Palin's Facebook page, George Bush's recession, Tea Party "extremism," xenophobia, the Party of No, Rush Limbaugh,...(Read Full Article)