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I'm not sure if a group actually exhists (yet), but the more I read and talk to others about, there seems to be feeling developing amongst voters that would be best represented by a group known as the "Vote Out The Incumbant Now Group" (V.O.T.I.N.G.).
Doesn't matter what office they hold; what political party they are associated with; how long they have been in office; who they are; or where they are. Just vote out the incumbants! Let the President work with a brand new House and Senate. If he can't, then we vote HIM out. But for now, at least, I support President Obama and the efforts he's making.
But the House and Senate got to go.

Barry W. Shook of IN 4:12PM November 05, 2009

America was defrauded by Obama and they are taking the country back. Liberals are too stupid to realize that you cannot run a center right country from the extreme left, and Tuesday was the perfect example of this. Obama has filled the white house with abortionist, socialist and homo's and America just isn't going to tolerate that. 2010 will be a blood bath and 2012 will be the last time in American history that a radical liberal sits in the white house. Enogh said....check mate!!

DJ of TX 11:48AM November 05, 2009

Well begun is half done. In each case the clear lesson of NJ, VA, and NY23 was candidate selection. Quality candidates coming in laterally from well- and favorably-known previous public service will topple incumbents with high negatives. Such quality candidates can be outspent in the election campaign and still win. But such lateral candidates cannot have an eye-rolling factor, as with Carly Fiorina. In that case, no matter how much you pump Fiorina, Boxer would still win.
The last thing republican or conservative party comissars should do is force a candidate, like they forced the RINO McCain, and like they initially forced the RINO Scozzafava. Owens would have beaten Scozzafava by a wider margin than he did Hoffman, so chew on that Gingrich.
At the same time, democrats must be dropping bricks that a shoe-horned carpet-bagger like Hoffman can come so close in such a short time. Hoffman was a loser candidate from the get-go but showed how vulnerable the democrats COULD be. The democrats have the glassiest of glass jaws, but republicans and conservatives are convinced that they can't take a body shot. So democrats further that notion, then lay back on the ropes and cover up and clinch to still win on points.
Also, marketable national distinction that benefits the local level is a winning quality. Congressional republican support for President Obama's 2009 Afghanistan war of Candidate Obama's 2008 necessity, along with Wall St. bailouts, show that the republicans have nothing distinct and better to offer simultaneously at the national and local levels. Such republicans will continue to be seen as wanting to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. Republican opposition to Obamacare while supporting Afghanistan and Wall St. is a prime example of that.
Overall, what a scream. The democrats couldn't be any more vulnerable and the republicans couldn't be any more inept.

dom youngross of OH 12:33AM November 05, 2009