Yeah, the Republican Party is dead, down & out, consigned to the trash bin of history

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Yeah, the Republican Party is dead, down & out, consigned to the trash bin of history

The following list shows: (1) a particular state legislative seat which has held a special election in 2009; for example, the first race listed is the election results for the 89th District of the Maine House of Representatives, (2) the percentage of the vote that the Republican candidate running in that district received in the 2008 general election last November, and (3) the percentage of the vote that the Republican candidate received in a special election this year in the very same state legislative district.

[see chart here:]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/reading_the_electoral_tea_leav_1.html

The data speaks for itself: in the very same legislative districts, Republican candidates have been doing much better in special elections after Obama took office than Republican candidates did in November 2008, when large numbers of black voters and young voters turned out to elect Obama. The big jump for Republican candidates appears in Red states (Oklahoma, Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee), in Blue states (Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maine), and in Purple states (Florida and New Hampshire.)

These little elections across the nation confirm what polling data trends have shown: the nation as a whole is moving away from the Democratic Party and toward the Republican Party; the intensity of Republican voters these days is greater than Democrat voters; and these reach across all parts of the nation.

Some of the Republican wins are real eye-openers. Republicans have never had a state representative from Oklahoma's 65th District and Delaware's 19th Senate District has been represented by Democrats for a long time. Democrat dominance had been so strong in those two districts that Republicans did not even field candidates in the 2008 general election. The 30th House District in South Carolina had not been represented by a Republican in thirty years. In several of these races, Republicans lost the state legislative race in November 2008 and then captured the seat in a 2009 special election.

The tea leaves from these little races all over the nation should hearten Republicans and trouble Democrats. Other recent elections, like the surprising Republican win in the Albuquerque mayoral race earlier this month, confirm this trend. Democrats tried hard, when polls in Albuquerque showed that a Republican might actually make the runoff election, to bolster the Democrat front runner. These efforts failed. In yet another Purple state, voters in the largest city in the state have moved away from the Democratic Party and embraced the Republican Party.

Bruce Walker
American Thinker

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I think their celebratory antics were premature and based upon the idea that Obama is not a Marxist Chicago Thug Politician being aided and abetted by that hollowed-eyed hippee refugee from the radical Berkeley 70's and that dupe Harry Reid, who has probably gone quietly insane and everyone is pretending not to notice 'cept for his true constituency...

He was their anti-Bush; a uniting centrist who would heal our racial tensions.

Yeah, right. He's yelling for more coal for the fire!

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

It seems their orgasmic delight clouded their judgment.

They assumed a prioi...



I assumed a lack of a posteriori...

 

[Songcatcher]

Obama is George Solos' puppet.

Unless the sheeple open up to the fact that left and right are the same, America is fucked.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I think their celebratory antics were premature and based upon the idea that Obama is not a Marxist Chicago Thug Politician being aided and abetted by that hollowed-eyed hippee refugee from the radical Berkeley 70's and that dupe Harry Reid, who has probably gone quietly insane and everyone is pretending not to notice 'cept for his true constituency...

He was their anti-Bush; a uniting centrist who would heal our racial tensions.

Yeah, right. He's yelling for more coal for the fire!

It seems their orgasmic delight clouded their judgment.

*laughing*

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

This bit right here destroys 20% of their "dataz" as meaningless since they're comparing the GOP gains in an election to one in which there was no GOP candidate.

"Republicans have never had a state representative from Oklahoma's 65th District and Delaware's 19th Senate District has been represented by Democrats for a long time. Democrat dominance had been so strong in those two districts that Republicans did not even field candidates in the 2008 general election."

If I run a marathon next week I'll do SO much better than I did last week, when I didn't bother to enter. Based on that trend by next month I'll be able to win every marathon, ever..

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Did you WIN the marathon?





What the fuck is so difficult about comprehension? All you and Le_Trouve do is cherry pick for pits you like...

It's significant if you go from no marathon to winning a marathon, no?

 

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[Ulaven_Demorte]

Did you WIN the marathon?





What the fuck is so difficult about comprehension? All you and Le_Trouve do is cherry pick for pits you like...

It's significant if you go from no marathon to winning a marathon, no?

Only in that you decided to participate in the second.

Of course you're going to do better in a race in which you participated than in the one that you did not even try. That doesn't mean that you're a better runner now, you may have been able to win before if you had been arsed to get up and try. You have nothing to compare your performance to.

For a conservative rag the "Thinker" is being awfully liberal with "facts".

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

They won.



They didn't just "do better."




What the fuck are you smoking today? I think I want some...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I didn't notice any up ticks on the Richter Scale.

He IS loonier than normal.

Can he not take things in stride?

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

They won.

They didn't just "do better."

What the fuck are you smoking today? I think I want some...

How can you or anyone else know that they wouldn't have won in November? They didn't even run a candidate.

You, via the "Thinker", are making an assumption based on a lack of supporting data.

Look! We won! So that proves, based on the fact that we lost last time (When we didn't run a candidate at all) that we're bound to win in 2010! Go TEAM!

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You act like a three-year old...


This was simply a gentle response to the meme that Republicans were never ever going to get back into power, not a prognostication, but time and time again you prove that you don't think about what you read, you just react to it, and when you don't like it, that reaction is to attack and lash out just like an angry child who has had his binky removed from his mouth.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

For people who supposedly despise Alinsky and his methods you sure do like to engage in them.

When you have something of substance to add Vetteman, drop a line 'K?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

No, the man is like a big pinko Energizer Bunny with a tub, a stick, and reading the din of Marx as music.

I beginning to wonder why I took his ass off ignore, I get more thoughtful conversation from my eleven-year old.

Obama never had a chance when it came to uniting his legions with the rest of us.

I think he knew that though...

It just sounded good at the time.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

You act like a three-year old...


This was simply a gentle response to the meme that Republicans were never ever going to get back into power, not a prognostication, but time and time again you prove that you don't think about what you read, you just react to it, and when you don't like it, that reaction is to attack and lash out just like an angry child who has had his binky removed from his mouth.

Oh but that article is very much an attempt at prognostication..

"The tea leaves from these little races all over the nation should hearten Republicans and trouble Democrats"

Based on flawed data the author is trying to bolster Republican (and apparently Not Republican) confidence. The only one "lashing out" here Cap'n, is you. You obviously see the trouble with comparing the results as they have, even if you wouldn't admit it publicly, and have since resorted to the tactics you profess to abhor in the "Alinsky" crowd.

Ridicule and refusal to actually address the point raised.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

What point?

Your point that the Democrat losses are meaningless because in two races Republicans had never run a marathon before?

Okay, you win, the Republican Party is down and out, unable to win elections, so I should shut up, so I will because you cannot win with the insane.

Look U_D, I've made repeated attempts to talk TO you but when you insist on talking AT me, I give up and respond in kind, what the hell else can I do?

You don't respond to respect other than as a sign of weakness or defeat to your verbal ninjitsu and the battles you wage in your Jedi mind against the enemies of Liberalism...
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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I took him off ignore some time ago because, despite the mental handicap of liberalism, he's much farther along than the vast majority of those similarly afflicted here; strangely enough I think he knows he's fucked up but tries hard not to hear the truth.

He's not about to admit to any mistake, I'll grant you that...

When you have to dismiss a win as merely doing a little better, you've totally disconnected from reality.

 

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[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I'd like to see him match off with my new whirlpool, it has a high-speed spin cycle...