DISQUS

The Moderate Voice: A Tiny Ripple Does Not Make A Tsunami

  • archangel · 1 month ago
    "it's the economy stupid"

    never better said. LAT on rural america? Priceless catch Jer, thanks!

    Your calls are great. Do you rate the ponies too? maybe we could, you know, make some extra $ to like, you know, buy medicine?
  • Silhouette · 1 month ago
    Don't go to the polls, don't vote. Just save the gas. Stay home. It's an off-year election. Don't send the GOP a fatal message by letting them know how you feel today. Be good little sheep.

    That's all the GOP has left, hope that people don't vote or watch the coverage and get excited about being part of the process. They know, the more people that get excited = the more people that will vote "not-republican/conservative"
  • casualobserver · 1 month ago
    I might be willing to assign some credibility to your opinion that these 3 elections do not necessarily represent anything significant if your name wasn't listed on an editorial board that has for the last 9 months been saying the Republican Party/conservative philosophy and its candidates are no longer viable to win any election.

    I will also be prone to agree that the majority of voters won't be swayed by any spin that comes out tonight or tomorrow from the Republican Party but it is also already rather obvious that those same voters aren't swayed by any spin voiced here at TMV either.

  • Davebo · 1 month ago
    The significance of these races are not the epicenter of a tsunami.


    It could be a start of one. A wave of enthusiasm among conservatives who begin to believe they really can gain power without all those RINO's (read GOP).

    I certainly hope it does.
  • garyknowz1 · 1 month ago
    But who’re the RINOs?

    I cannot help but be amused at this struggle for a name. Some call McCain, Snowe, Collins, or other moderates “RINOS.” However, perhaps they are the RINOs, and McCain and the moderates are the real Republicans. Of course the extreme right would never admit that, but who are they to judge?
  • archangel · 1 month ago
    mcdonnell took it Jer. one duck.
  • archangel · 1 month ago
    christie too, Jer. two ducks.
  • JeffersonDavis · 1 month ago
    Not so quick, there, folks. With 72% of the vote in - Hoffman is getting flogged by Owens by 5%. Hey.... 2 out of 3 ain't bad either.

    Looks like the Scozzafava endorsement helped a bit, huh? Of course, there are several "conservative" precincts that have not been counted yet. They are more rural and tend to hold more conservative votes. I guess we'll see tomorrow for the true skinny.
  • jkremmers · 1 month ago
    I'll take two out of three most days. Voters in the 23rd are smarter than we pundits gave them credit. -- Jer
  • JeffersonDavis · 1 month ago
    "Voters in the 23rd are smarter than we pundits gave them credit."

    I agree. "Conventional" political wisdom would say that Hoffman would win.

    This may be a case of the voters being fed-up with the political games in which both parties engage. Instead of a "referendum on Obama" or a "referendum within the GOP" it could be a "referendum of political upheaval. That would gel with Congress's 20% approval rating (or lower) over the past 2 decades.