If Dems had won, would they still insist it was NOT a referendum on Obama's policies?

[Little-Acorn]

After nearly a year of the most socialistic and disingenuous legislation the country has ever seen, Democrats got clobbered in nearly every election yesterday (Nov. 3). Their spin machine is in overdrive, trying to insist it was no big deal. It has nothing to do with Obama's policies, they shout, it was local issues only. They were even saying this before the elections, apparently getting some indications that voters weren't very happy with them.

If things had gone the other way, and people had voted for Democrats in nearly every election yesterday, would the party leaders still be insisting that it was no big deal, and NOT a referendum on Obama's policies?

 

[top gun]

Re: If Dems had won, would they still insist it was NOT a referendum on Obama's polic

They did win... they beat the hard Conservative up.

I've been saying you pubbies better become more moderate because if you stick with the Druggie Limbaugh & Lonesome Roads Beck crowd you'll keep ending up unemployed like Caribou Barbie and now this Hoffman fellow.


Conservative Loses Upstate House Race in Blow to Right

Published: November 3, 2009
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Democrats won a special election in New York State’s northernmost Congressional district Tuesday, a setback for national conservatives who heavily promoted a third candidate in what became an intense debate over the direction of the Republican Party.

Douglas L. Hoffman, a previously unknown accountant from Lake Placid, ran as a Conservative, and drew the backing of social and fiscal conservatives like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.

The White House became involved in the efforts to boost the Democratic candidate, Bill Owens, in the closing days of the campaign. The 23rd Congressional District leans Republican. With 89 percent of precincts reporting, the Democratic candidate, Bill Owens, led with 49 percent of the vote, while the Conservative Party candidate, Douglas L. Hoffman, had 46 percent, a margin of about 4,300 votes.

Mr. Hoffman spoke to a deflated crowd of about 50 in a hotel ballroom here soon after midnight on Wednesday and said he had called Mr. Owens to concede.

The district has been a Republican stronghold for generations, and the party has represented parts of it since the 19th century.

The battle became one of the most closely followed races in the nation, drawing in some of the biggest forces in politics in both parties. Republicans who viewed the race as a test of the party’s most deeply held conservative principles — including Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska; Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, a presidential hopeful; and grass-roots groups that have forcefully opposed Democratic economic and health care policies — rallied behind Mr. Hoffman.

 

[Greco]

Re: If Dems had won, would they still insist it was NOT a referendum on Obama's polic

The Republicans have been suffering massisive loss after loss for several years. In the only race that had any national implecations, they lost again on Tuesday, losing a congressional seat Republicans had held since the Civil War. But they did claim two governor races, which will have little to no impact, except to residents of those two states.

But if they'd won a race for Head Dog Catcher they'd still act like they just won the political Super Bowl.

When you're so far down only 20% of Americans will even admit publicly they're a member of tin-foil hat party, you gotta lower your expectations.