2010
2010 Election Gifts
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 20:47By now we're all familiar with the fact that Republican victories on Election Day led to massive gains in Congress. Of course this puts the GOP in a much stronger position to advance its agenda - or at least thwart the Obama agenda for the next two years. Both are crucially important to be sure, but as most of us spend the weekend exchanging gifts, we should stop and consider a few of the other 2010 election "gifts" that are just as important for the long term.
Conservatives are more excited
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Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 15:15Now that the 2010 mid-term elections are over and (most of) the ballots have been counted, it’s worth a look to see what issues played the greatest role in the election and what that may tell us about 2012.
Of course there are a lot of issues, but from a conservative Republican standpoint, the most important ones to identify are those which played the greatest role in motivating voters to support massive Republican gains at all levels of governance – and what might do so again the next time they head to the polls.
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2010 Election Projections
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 14:22The 2010 election is (finally) upon us, which means it’s time to engage in that favorite of political pastimes – prognostication. After all, what good is an election without predictions?
For pretty much every election for the past twenty years I’ve kept my own predictions and have done fairly well, (but I did miss that Al Gore and the popular vote thing in 2000…and thought Hillary would be the nominee in 2008). But it seems like it would be more interesting to put it in a column for everyone to see and comment on. Plus, given the multitude of pollsters (and even online markets such as Intrade), there is so much information out there that everyone can now get in on the act.
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Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 15:26Some general thoughts and observations on the 2010 Republican primaries:
Conservative Republican primary voters are angry. OK, that’s obvious, but it’s who and what they’re angry at that is important. For now, they are angry at anyone who even looks like they’re part of the "establishment", the result being a long overdue house cleaning. For their part, most in the Republican establishment don’t seem to really have a gut level grasp of why. Conservatives are not just angry and looking to take it out on someone, they are upset with having the GOP run by people who patronize them and then set about undermining their goals, or at least fail to effectively advocate them.
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Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 20:51If eighteen months ago someone asked you to write a political plan more likely to rile up the American people and throw them into the arms of the Republican Party, it’s hard to imagine anything that would be more successful than what the Democrats have done over the past year and a half. Not to mention what they plan to do.
Between ObamaCare, the stimulus, civil rights for terrorists and suing Arizona for trying to control its illegal immigration problem, they have been pushing voters to the GOP with both hands. But in just a few months comes the coup de grace: a massive tax increase – right in the middle of a recession.
Barack Obama's Massachusetts miracle
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 00:20
Election Day finally arrived in Massachusetts and the results are nothing short of a miracle.
In one of the bluest of the blue states, (where Obama won by 61%), an unknown Republican managed to win "Ted Kennedy's seat" in the United States Senate.
Thank you, Barack Obama.
Even before the campaign was over, the blame game began and Democrats pronounced it all Martha Coakley's fault. The long knives came out.
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