Who won’t be voting Tuesday: The young, the more racially diverse, the financially strapped http://pewrsr.ch/1DDrk85
Dems: ‘We May Have Lost The SCOTUS Seat, But At Least We Kept Our Dignity’
Posted: October 11, 2018 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Politics | Tags: Brett Kavanaugh, Chuck Schumer, Democrats, Mid-terms, SCOTUS Leave a comment
U.S.—Democratic leaders consoled themselves from their failure to stop Brett Kavanaugh from assuming a seat on the Supreme Court Monday by reminding the nation that although they lost the SCOTUS seat, they were able to keep their dignity.
As liberal protesters banged on the doors of the Supreme Court and attempted to claw them open, Senate Democrats calmed their constituents by pointing out that they were able to be the bigger person in all this. Read the rest of this entry »
Meet the Non-Voters
Posted: November 1, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Election, Mid-terms, Pew Research Center, voters Leave a comment
Michael Barone and The Mysterious Case of the ‘Democratic Dogs That Aren’t Barking’
Posted: October 30, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Barack Obama, Dogs that aren't barking, Election, Foreign Policy, GOP, Michael Barone, Mid-terms, Obamacare, Sherlock Holmes, Stimulus Package, Taxes 1 Comment
Silence of the Dogs
Sherlock Holmes famously solved a mystery by noticing the dog that didn’t bark in the night. Dogs that are not barking at night — nor in prime time — provide some useful clues to understanding the significance of this year’s election.
Contrary to the disparagement of some liberal pundits, this election is not about nothing. But is not about certain, specific things they might like to hear.
[Michael Barone is the Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner. Read the rest of Barone‘s article here]
President Obama recently said that Democrats in serious Senate and House contests this year back “every one” of his programs. But you hear very little 
about those programs in their ads.
Stimulus Package
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Higher Tax Rates on High Earners
Foreign Policy
The stimulus package, for example, is not mentioned much. Nor are proposals by serious Democrats like Clinton administration veteran William Galston for a national infrastructure bank. These dogs aren’t barking.
“As Holmes might deduce, the solution to the clue of the non-barking Democratic dogs is that most voters lack faith in government to solve problems, to make their lives better or even to perform with minimal competence.”
The reasons are obvious. The stimulus didn’t stimulate the economy the way the Reagan tax cuts did in the 1980s. As for infrastructure, as Obama sheepishly admitted, there is no such thing — given environmental reviews and bureaucratic torpor—as a shovel-ready project. Read the rest of this entry »
Mystery Campaign Captures Attention of Undecided Low-Information Voters in Ambitious Bid for Global Domination
Posted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Campaign, Election, Megatron, Mid-terms, Prank, satire, Senate, Votes 2 Comments
[VIDEO] Lowry: Will Incumbency Prevail Over Obama’s Unpopularity in November?
Posted: October 28, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, U.S. News | Tags: 2012 Election, incumbent, Mid-terms, Midterms, Rich Lowry, Special Report, Twitter, United States Senate, YouTube 1 CommentRich Lowry, Special Report, 10-28-2014
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[VIDEO] Rogan: Wendy Davis’s Empty-Wheelchair Ad ‘a Massive Miscalculation’, Reflects ‘Absolute Desperation’
Posted: October 11, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Election, Greta Van Sustren, Mid-terms, National Review Online, On the Record, Texas, Wendy Davis Leave a commentWhite House Admits Obama Delayed Executive Amnesty So GOP Couldn’t Campaign on It
Posted: October 8, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Amnesty, Barack Obama, Democrat, Election, Executive Amnesty, Fundraising, GOP, Immigration, Josh Earnest, Mid-terms 1 Comment
A revealing admission. And further proof that this administration was never about serving the public interest, statesmanship, or governing. The U.S. government has been politicized and subverted to the point where it’s little more than a fundraising and election-rigging machine. One that commands an Army, Navy, Air force, Marines, an EPA, an IRS, ICE, labor department, Federal Reserve, Treasury, and countless law enforcement and regulatory agencies, a rose garden, and endless golfing vacations. And enjoys its own taxpayer-funded, state-of-the-art luxury fundraising airplane.
“…you would have seen Republican candidates do more to make the immigration issue central to their campaign. And in the event that they were successful in their campaign, the concern would be that they would cite their opposition to immigration reform as a reason to their success.”
— White House press secretary Josh Earnest
Here’s a bonus “headline of the day” from Breitbart.com
And here’s some bonus questions. What makes Obama think the GOP can’t campaign on executive amnesty? And did he really think delaying it would prevent his party from losing the Senate? That’s the risk of being political, unpopular, and short-sighted.
From National Review Online:
White House press secretary Josh Earnest bluntly admitted on Wednesday that the reason President Obama chose to delay executive amnesty for illegal immigrants was so Republicans would not be able to campaign on the issue during the midterms. Read the rest of this entry »
Senate Democrats Forced to Defend More Seats
Posted: April 21, 2014 Filed under: Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Alaska, Barack Obama, Democratic, Democrats, Mid-terms, North Carolina, Republican, South Dakota 1 Comment
For Breitbart.com, Mike Flynn writes: In even a neutral political environment, the 2014 midterms were going to be a challenge for Senate Democrats. They are defending 21 seats to the GOP’s 15, with only two of the Republican seats at any kind of risk of flipping to the Democrats. Moreover, Democrats were defending many freshman Senators who first won office in in Republican states in Obama’s wave election in 2008.
This isn’t a neutral political environment, however. Obama’s low approval ratings, the continued fallout over ObamaCare, current Democrat happy-talk notwithstanding, and the sluggish economy have provided Republicans with an enthusiasm and turnout advantage that could match 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
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