tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post1400261203146607358..comments2023-10-16T07:02:33.445-05:00Comments on Tall Cotton: MonkeysppjakaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-39990282690037188502010-08-09T10:43:41.913-05:002010-08-09T10:43:41.913-05:00He rughtfully credited his loss to the fact that a...He rughtfully credited his loss to the fact that as an existing US Congressman people couldn't see the difference between him and other congress people and took their anger out on hi<br /><br />Except the polling data doesn't support his excuse:<br /><br /><b>The anti-incumbent fever that so many have discussed appears only to apply in Democratic districts. As this chart shows, the GOP leads where Democrats have incumbents by five points, outside the margin of error. In current Republican districts, the GOP leads by 16 points, which indicates that voters don’t have much of a problem with Republican incumbents.<br /><br />We see the same conclusion from questions specifically aimed at testing incumbency. For Democratic districts, 46% of voters want to vote for “someone else”, while only 34% want to re-elect their current Representative. Those numbers flip in Republican districts, with 37% demanding “someone else” and 49% planning to support the incumbent. Yet another question on incumbency showed a commitment to re-elect incumbents in Republican districts of 52% to 39% opposed, while in Democratic districts, those numbers were reversed again, 36/56.<br /><br />And bear in mind that these were the most competitive Republican districts NPR found.<br /><br />This poll clearly shows that the midterms won’t be an anti-incumbent, throw-them-all-out election. It’s a referendum on the Democratic agenda and leadership, and the Democrats will lose big if these numbers hold up through the summer.</b><br /><br />I took this from that well-know Leftie site <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/15/npr-generic-congressional-poll-in-70-districts-put-gop-up-by-8/" rel="nofollow">Hot Air</a>, BTW.<br /><br />Otherwise, you're telling me that the Republican voters of TN are too dumb to tell the difference between an incumbent on their side and the concept of incumbents being responsible for all the ills of America these days and voted accordingly.<br /><br />That's too Leftie even for me, PPJ.<br /><br />In my experience, a bad salesman always blames his customer when a sale falls through, instead of figuring out how he lost the sale. I've known that ever since I won 1st prize for selling the most magazine subscriptions for my 7th grade class many moons ago :-)<br /><br />Thanks for the constructive criticism, btw.The Dark Avengerhttp://ppj-tallcotton.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-46557535140855784662010-08-09T10:15:01.793-05:002010-08-09T10:15:01.793-05:00Well, Wamp lost the election,
He rughtfully credi...Well, Wamp lost the election,<br /><br />He rughtfully credited his loss to the fact that as an existing US Congressman people couldn't see the difference between him and other congress people and took their anger out on him.<br /><br />That you, as a member of the Far Left, don't understand the anger people feel towards Congress and the actions of this administration is understandable.ppjakaJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04232495007429895581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-16544188047375961202010-08-09T09:31:27.327-05:002010-08-09T09:31:27.327-05:00Sounds like the TN Congressional 3rd could use a b...Sounds like the TN Congressional 3rd could use a bonobo or gibbon instead of their current incumbent:<br /><br /><b>A Tennessee congressman suggested Friday that states might have to "consider separation from this government" if the federal government does not change its approach.<br /><br />Republican Rep. Zack Wamp brought up the idea of secession in an interview Friday with Hotline on Call as he encouraged a change at the federal level.<br /><br />"I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government," he said.<br /><br />"States are tired of being run over" by federal mandates, Wamp said, and praised Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who raised the topic of secession in 2009 after an anti-tax "tea party" rally.<br /><br />"Patriots like Rick Perry have talked about these issues because the federal government is putting us in an untenable position at the state level," Wamp told Hotline.</b><br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072305420.htmlThe Dark Avengernoreply@blogger.com