Media Matters: The right-wing media's election analysis just ain't that good »
Posted By bruhaha 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Political Opinion
Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance. Fox News contributor Dick Morris said at the time, "[I]f you have a Republican president, people are going to vote Democrat, and if you have a Democrat president, they're going to vote Republicans." Proffering further spin of the GOP losses, Fox News contributor Mort Kondracke said, "We have no way of knowing" how the 2001 outcome would affect the 2002 midterms, a sentiment echoed by conservative writer Michael Barone, who declared on CNN, "I don't think that the issues and personalities" in the Virginia and New Jersey races "are going to be congruent with very many" races in 2002 or 2004. Then there was Laura Ingraham on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes noting that "[b]oth sides are going to spin this," before offering her own spin: "[T]o call this some kind of watershed moment against Republican views is nonsense."
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happydaze3 weeks, 6 days ago
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I posted this in another story but I feel it bears repeating:
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Well I live in NY State and spent the whole day yesterday driving truck through the 23rd making deliveries. I listened to the local radio to find out what was on the minds of the people. I learned a few things:
The people in the 23rd resented the outsiders coming into their district and picking their candidate for them.
Most thought that Dee Dee Scozzafava was the perfect candidate. They are fiscally conservative people but socially moderate.
Due to the problems above voter turnout was estimated to be around 30% which is very low. They said the lowest up there in quite some time.
These people are not some hillbillies who will gobble up the rights pablum. SUNY Potsdam is in the 23rd. Tonight Saturday 11/07/2009 Sweet Honey in The Rock is performing there.
If the right wants to win elections they need to do their homework instead of just putting right wing ideologues in. -
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miklkit3 weeks, 5 days ago
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The radical right's Ministry of Propaganda is still pushing the big lie. But what is happening is they are pushing themselves out of mainstream American thought into the fringes with the John Birch Society and the McCarthyites. Good riddance!
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