Dem’s Cheer Democrat Winning Democrat Primary; Calling It A “Breakthrough”

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Desperate times calls for desperate reporters I suppose. Check this headline out blaring across the LA Times….a DEMOCRAT wins a DEMOCRAT primary.

Woo-hoo! Time to celebrate you Dem’s: (h/t Ace)

Democrats hail election results as breakthrough

A key primary win in Colorado and victories by ‘tea party’-backed GOP candidates amount to ‘nothing but good news’ for the party, the White House

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The White House and national Democrats were quick to celebrate Wednesday what they saw as a breakthrough in an otherwise bleak political year, with President Obama’s preferred candidate winning a key primary test in Colorado and Republican voters choosing “tea party”-backed insurgents over the GOP’s recruited candidates.

“Last night’s elections … were nothing but good news for the Democratic Party,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.

No bias there eh? Now the tea-party folks are “insurgents.”

But anyways…I guess they are celebrating because at least one candidate that Obama backed won. Being the incumbent Senator I’m not sure why its that huge, plus being a far lefty instead of a centrist is sooooo much preferred in the general election to come right?

Geez louise.

These same folks are beaming because Sarah’s candidate in Georgia lost, forgetting that she is 10 for 16 in her endorsements so far. Not a bad batting average and heads above Obama and the far lefty wacko’s.

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Curt,

In the desert, given enough time without water, people will attempt to drink sand. The MSM and the liberals in general are desperate for any thing which they can actually perceive as positive news. Their spin is being met with out and out laughter now. That’s gotta hurt.

I’ll be curious to see whether Obama faces a significant challenge on the left in the Dem primary. I know folks here like to talk about how he’s a socialist, but in reality the hard left is not happy with him at all.

Sword of Damocles hangs over the head of Democrat incumbents’ jobs now for these various voting districts due to such “insurgent” tea partiers. And the media better be careful how it labels the majority of Americans, as it can not sustain a business from insulting its clients. When is there going to be a public push to boycott these media stations’ sponsors?

My tea-party candidate can whip your neo-prog, Marxist loving, tax and spend leftist candidate anytime!!

Whistlin by the graveyard.

Interesting OpEd by a Republican polster in today’s NYTimes:

He begins by disputing the premise that out of the mainstream Rep candidates will be easy for dem primary winners to beat in toss up Senate races:

CONVENTIONAL wisdom holds that Tuesday’s primary election results offered a ray of hope to reeling Democrats. The prevailing narrative is that by nominating several candidates who are “out of the mainstream,” Republicans have undercut their ability to win contested races in the fall.

But the forces that produced those outsider candidates are precisely the forces that have placed Democrats in peril this election cycle. Disgust with Washington and its overspending, deficits and debt is so great that even nontraditional Republican candidates have real chances to win.

He goes on to offer results of polling questions that show Independents are breaking for Republicans by hefty margins. Also, the majority of Independents favor the Tea Party movement.

Data mentioned in OpEd:

According to Pollster, Americans disapprove of the job the Democratic-controlled Congress is doing, by 70 percent to 18 percent, and a majority disapprove of the president’s overall performance.

Questions/results…..1000 likely voters:

• Having a president and Congress controlled by the Democrats allows the country to keep moving forward. This election is a choice between continued progress and going back to the failed policies of the Bush administration.

• Having a president and Congress controlled by the Democrats has not worked well for the country. From the economy to the deficit and the debt, the Democrats have not gotten the job done.

“….self-identified independents preferred the second statement by 53 percent to 38 percent, and there is no doubt that independents will determine the balance of power in November’s election.

Next question, one party control:

We also found that independents in particular are suspicious of one-party control of government. Another question from our survey offered these two choices:

• We need Democrats to keep control of Congress so our government can overcome Republican obstruction and continue making progress on jobs, health care and holding Wall Street accountable.

• We need more Republicans in Congress to act as a check and balance on runaway Washington government that is bankrupting the country and mortgaging our children’s future.

By 57 to 36 percent, independents said they wanted more Republicans to act as a check and balance on Democratic governance.

Spending:

• We need more tax revenue as well as spending cuts to reduce the federal deficit. We will never get the deficit under control unless we make the difficult but necessary decision to raise taxes.

• Our federal deficit is a result of too much spending in Washington, not too little tax revenue. Instead of raising taxes on anyone, Congress should make the difficult but necessary decisions to get spending under control.

By 73 to 24 percent, likely voters in these tossup states said the federal deficit was a spending rather than a revenue problem. Independents agreed with the overall electorate by 75 to 21 percent. Even Democrats agreed that the deficit is driven by spending, by 55 to 41 percent.

Motivation to vote:

“…we asked voters to indicate their interest in the Congressional election on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being “extremely interested.” Fifty-three percent of Republican voters and 43 percent of independents said their interest was a 10, compared with only 35 percent of Democrats.

Tea Party support:

Nor is support from the Tea Party movement the negative influence that Democrats keep insisting it is. Although Republicans view the movement favorably and Democrats view it unfavorably, in our polling a majority of independents give the Tea Party movement a favorable rating, 51 to 34 percent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/opinion/15ayres.html?_r=1&hp

Also saw an editorial explaining that Maxine and Charley mucked up all the dems had to cheer about this week. 🙄 They just can’t catch a break, nor do they deserve one. 😉

I wonder how rich wheeler will spin that information, lol. Personally, I don’t care. He can stick his head in the sand with the rest of the leftists and not realize that dems are in serious trouble come Nov.