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The Democrat Debacle of 2010?

By James Pethokoukis

Posted: November 3, 2008

"Hello, we must be going" for the Dems? Andrew Samwick lays out a quite plausible political near future: "The American voters' political memory is short, and their ability to run the counterfactual is not very precise.  If we are a mess leading up to the midterm elections in 2010, the Democrats will lose what they gained in the prior 4 years.  With weaker majorities (particularly in the Senate), the Democrats will be in a much tougher position in the last two years of an Obama administration than the first, and the ascendant Republicans will already be fielding challengers for 2012."

 

Me: I will be blogging more in my own near future on this scenario.

Conservative Plan...

...to let the hope-a-dopes and o-bots win the election and let the dems hold the bag for the economy the next four years. Bay-rock will be a Jimmy Carter 2.0 and do a one-and-done.

Tim Roesch of VA @ Nov 17, 2008 17:23:23 PM

Conservative Plan...

...to let the hope-a-dopes and o-bots win the election and let the dems hold the bag for the economy the next four years. Bay-rock will be a Jimmy Carter 2.0 and do a one-and-done.

Tim Roesch of VA @ Nov 17, 2008 17:23:23 PM

My how time flies!

It seems like only today that we were voting in the 2008 election.

Now it's 2010 already?

Now I know how Rip Van Winkel felt.

HillbillyBill of TN @ Nov 04, 2008 09:45:02 AM

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