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SecularMotion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 06:07 AM
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Memo To Dems: Ignore The Base And You'll Lose Elections
DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- For political junkies, the off-year elections held around the nation on Tuesday were pretty thin gruel. There weren't many surprises.

In Virginia, we saw that when Democrats field a lousy candidate for governor, like Creigh Deeds, that lousy candidate will lose.

In New Jersey, we saw that when an incumbent, like Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, goes into his re-election campaign with an approval rating in the 30s, you generally lose.

In Maine, we again saw that if same-sex marriage is presented to the voters to decide upon, it gets rejected.

And in upstate New York, we saw that the Tea Party Republicans don't have as much clout as they think.

Off-year elections are generally decided by local concerns more than national ones, and the exit polls show that the right-wing narrative - Tuesday's elections were a referendum on the Obama Administration - to be pure bunk.

http://www.american-reporter.com/4,002/175.html
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:49 PM
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1. Memo to Dems on DU:Liberals Still Overwhelmingly Back Obama
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:51 PM
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2. Not to worry. The Left is irrelevant. Ask LBJ.
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BzaDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:52 PM
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3. Memo to Base: Ignore/bash Dems and Republicans will win elections.
Edited on Tue Aug-10-10 12:52 PM by BzaDem
Luckily, 85-90% of liberal democrats support Obama and the Dems.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:55 PM
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4. The base = 85% of liberals support Pres Obama.
Gibbs was talking about the dead-enders.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/08/obama-and-liberals.html

On the national poll we'll release this week 85% of liberals approve of the job Obama is doing to 12% disapproving. 88% support his health care plan looking back with only 7% opposed.
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