Hello. So, we are a little over three weeks away from the mid-term elections, and there has been no activity on this blog since July. Has this blog turned into a vacuum from an echo chamber from a lively blog? Just wanted to know.
My prediction for the upcoming election - both houses of Congress will move to the right. The Democrat survivors will have moved to the right. The replacement Democrats will be to the right of their predecessors. The Republican survivors will have shifted further to the right. And the new Republicans will be futher to the right than their (R or D) predecessors. The only person whose stated or closely held ideology will have remained as far left as before (or perhaps moved further left) is President Obama.
This is a recipe for federal gridlock, a welcome change from what we have seen for the past four years.
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Hey, I can make it look like this post has drawn lots of comments, just by posting my own comments. Anyone else out there?
I'm out here, and thanks for the fresh post! It's been a while.
I think your predictions are dead on, and I found it interesting how you stopped short of predicting which party would have the majorities in both houses of Congress. I like that.
Here's a proposal to anyone who still glances at this blog. Find a campaign ad which illustrates Chris's point (about all candidates moving to the right) and post the link in your comment. Here's mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJORBRpOPM
It shows the wildly popular (approval ratings >70%) Joe Manchin, current Democratic Governor of West Virginia who is running for the Senate held by Democratic mainstay Robert Byrd for decades, touting his NRA endorsement, promising to get Washington "off our backs and out of our pockets," promising to repeal "the bad parts of Obamacare," and literally shooting a paper representation of the Cap and Trade Bill with a .22 rifle, "because it's bad for West Virginia." Instant classic. He's polling about 5 points behind businessman John Raese who warns that Manchin will be "a rubber stamp for Obama" in most or all of his ads.
By the way, what is it about supporting smaller government, more fiscal restraint and sanity, and more freedom that makes one "extreme," as so many in the media like to paint the Tea Partiers?
A week later, and yours is the only comment Devin. I imagine people have simply stopped checking the blog. I would hate to do something controversial just to attract attention. I am going to keep at it, though, one post a week.
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