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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Democrats prepare for losses with excuses

  Ok, I'm ready for this election season to be over.
  I'm prepared (I think) for anything; I'm not sure I've yet recovered from the 2012 election results so, naturally, I am not overconfident.
  But I figure something big is up, not indicated necessarily from the many polls, but rather from the behavior of the media and Democrat machine but I repeat myself.
  It's not just the incessant drone of election ads in the background, politicians' and their wannabe competitors generally ugly mugs leering at me, the impressionable voter, trying to persuade me to vote for _______.
  It's not just the contrast between the harsh music/lighting on the opposition's face and the soft focus/warm fuzzies for the candidate. I mean, seriously? Captain Obvious!
  It's not just news anchors' obsession with who's winning in last hour's polls.
  Oh, wait. I must be talking about "Faux" News or some alternate media because those other "Real" news networks are not interested in covering the 2014 elections.
  Even NOLA has the figures:
Between Sept. 1 and Oct. 22 of this year, ABC News' World News Tonight did not do a single story on the 2014 midterm election, according to the public's friend, the Media Research Center. [SNIP]
In that same period, CBS and NBC combined to broadcast 25 stories on the elections......
In 2006 - just eight years ago - when George W. Bush was president and the Democrats were poised to retake control in Congress, the coming tide was a huge story.
Indeed, so big it warranted 159 September and October stories on CBS, NBC and ABC's evening news broadcasts. The good people at ABC who couldn't be bothered to run a single story on what looks likely Nov. 4 ran 36 stories on the midterm elections - an average of 4 a week for a show that airs 5 times a week.
  Well, you've outed me. I primarily watch "Faux" News, where there is indeed great interest in who wins today.
  Hot Air has specific breakdowns of the lack of coverage by the "Real" news outfits:
According to an exhaustive study performed by Media Research Center analysts, between September 1 and October 20, the three major broadcast networks only bothered to mention the fact that there is a critical election coming up only 25 times. Of those mentions, only 16 of them were in the context of packaged report.
By contrast, in the same period in 2006, when Democrats were believed to be likely to take control of both the House and Senate, the three major networks mentioned the coming midterms 159 times with 91 of those mentions broadcast as part of detailed reports.
  I guess this means if we don't cover it, it's not real news. It's faux news.
 They've pulled out all the stops to win,  those rascally Democrats have, indiscriminately labeling those who do not kiss the ring of the Democrat Party racists and sexists, cheating, voting more than once, encouraging illegals to vote, blah, blah, blah.
  Michelle Obama, apparently stung by accusations that Democrats take advantage and for granted their Black base of voters, declared to her people that "most of the people we're talkin' to" (code for Blacks & hopefully Hispanics) must stay on the Democrat reservation at all costs because Democrats.
  It's funny reading the roundup of Democrat commentary and "Real" News preparation for any Republicans wins tonight, whether they take the Senate back or not.
  Let's see what detritus is before proffered as rationale for the desertion from Obama and Democrats by all sorts of voters, including Millenials, Blacks and Hispanics.
   Bbbbbut, you should feel bad for Obama and go vote, just to be sure he knows you still love him.

  Meanwhile, Obama's ego is still ruining the narrative by revealing that Democrats really do love him more than the voters, even though they're walking out when he starts to talk at his infrequent appearances and not showing up in the thousands anymore. 
  I guess they miss the Greek columns.
  Or something
UPDATE: Also, as per Josh Earnest's press briefing today:
  •  Democrat governors are going to win, like in California and New York, so this election is only important with the gubernatorial races anyway.
  • There's this one poll where voters said they were not trying to send a message to Obama.
  • He doesn't have any appearances scheduled today because he's really busy with Obola Ebola stuff.
  • Today is "not a referendum on the President." hahaha.

2 comments:

  1. Yes, and the big loser will be the Tea Party. They will overlook the Tea Party's support for Gardner, Ernst (who wants to scrap the IRS, EPA, & the Dept. of Edu ), Cotton and Bill Cassidy, who is a member of the House Tea Party caucus, and try to perpetuate the myth that losing house seats is good because with a larger GOP majority Boehner won't be as dependent on the Tea Party members to pass legislation.

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    1. Well, I don't look at that as a loss. I think it's better if they don't understand the power of the Tea Party--not necessarily the organized ones, but the angry undercurrent that wants to hold both Republicans' and Democrats' feet to the fire. I think they've given up on Democrats which is why they go for Republicans because at least there we can squeeze a few body parts to get what we want now and then. It's a long war; we have to be willing to fight it one battle at a time. Sure, we had a few lousy candidates at first but that was because it was such a nascent effort. I say Republicans better watch what they're doing because we sure are.

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