How about all the Democrats just go out and spend a fuck ton of money in September and October, thus making the economy surge right before the election?

9/14/2010 9:41:58 AM

That's one hell of a punchline.

9/14/2010 9:49:17 AM

LOL! They already did and it hasn't worked.

9/14/2010 9:49:20 AM

They can do something their base actually asks them to for a change.

9/14/2010 2:01:37 PM

About all that's left is for them to make the Republicans look bat-sh1t insane and give the message of "Yes, we suck, but we're still better than these lunatics." From the way the Republicans are going right now, it doesn't look that hard.

9/14/2010 2:16:29 PM

^ The problem with a strategy like that is the huge potential to backfire. As it is the republican base is fired up and looking to make a come back. Go about the mockery/insanity strategy the wrong way and you risk firing them up even more as they feel they are coming under personal attack as well as political attack.

9/14/2010 2:37:31 PM

Well luckily they're sane, rational people who will obviously see that the Republicans are working more for special interests than they are for the American public.

Apparently I was wrong.

[Edited on September 14, 2010 at 2:54 PM. Reason : ]

9/14/2010 2:53:43 PM

Unfortunately, the American people have to choose between ineptitude and batshit insane fantaticism.

We're not voting for who's going to lead the country through the next several years, but who's going to do the least damage.


sucks.

9/14/2010 3:06:44 PM

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"How The Democrats Can Win The Mid-Terms"

Need moar private sector job bar graphs!!!

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"We're not voting for who's going to lead the country through the next several years, but who's going to do the least damage."

Which must be done on a case by case basis.

9/14/2010 3:13:13 PM

lol

9/14/2010 4:51:55 PM

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"Which must be done on a case by case basis."

says the partisan hack.

9/15/2010 10:20:40 AM

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"How about all the Democrats just go out and spend a fuck ton of money in September and October, thus making the economy surge right before the election? "

The federal fiscal year ends September 30th, so government spending always surges in September. October, however, is usually desolate.

9/15/2010 12:33:47 PM

i think they can win by getting more votes than the other guy

9/15/2010 7:10:52 PM

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"The public has a darker view of Congressional Republicans than of Democrats, with 58 percent disapproving of Democrats and 68 percent disapproving of Republicans. But with less than two months remaining until Election Day, there are few signs Democrats have made gains persuading Americans that they should keep control of Congress. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/us/politics/16poll.html

9/15/2010 7:46:23 PM

Wow...that's a really alarming poll result.


Until you look at the actual data of the poll.
http://documents.nytimes.com/new-york-timescbs-news-poll-new-york-timescbs-news-poll-mood-of-the-country-as-midterms-approach?ref=politics

I hate how some people take one snippet of poll data and throw it out there and "forget" to put that number in context with the raw poll data (like this instance where you aren't told that 35% of the ppl polled consider themselves D's, and 25% consider themselves R's). But I guess you could figure that out from the source of the poll (NY Times/CBS).

9/18/2010 5:17:09 AM

^?

If the general population self-identifies as 35% Democrat, 25% Republican, and the rest as other/independent, then that's how the poll should roll.

WTF did you expect them to do? Go out and force the case to make it 50/50 Republican/Democrat?

Anyway, you're dumb. And I only say that because you got all uppity fancy pants like you were gonna bust out with some knowledge.

9/18/2010 6:24:34 AM

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"In quota sampling, the population is first segmented into mutually exclusive sub-groups, just as in stratified sampling. Then judgment is used to select the subjects or units from each segment based on a specified proportion. For example, an interviewer may be told to sample 200 females and 300 males between the age of 45 and 60. This means that individuals can put a demand on who they want to sample (targeting) It is this second step which makes the technique one of non-probability sampling. In quota sampling, the selection of the sample is non-random unlike random sampling and can often be found unreliable. For example interviewers might be tempted to interview those people in the street who look most helpful, or may choose to use accidental sampling to question those which are closest to them, for time-keeping sake. The problem is that these samples may be biased because not everyone gets a chance of selection. This non-random element is its greatest weakness and quota versus probability has been a matter of controversy for many years. Quota sampling is useful when time is limited, a sampling frame is not available, the research budget is very tight or when detailed accuracy is not important."

9/18/2010 6:32:17 AM

^I feel you, but quota sampling isn't the worst thing ever.

If kdogg(c) is gonna get all pissed about this disparity in Republicans and Democrats, then I'm gonna get all pissed that only 19% of the people identified as liberal while 36% identified as conservative. OMG, the conservative mainstream media is misleading us with "alarming" poll results!

9/18/2010 7:00:09 AM

the democrats have done too much compromising in the last year and a half to have a chance. They've allowed moderates and republicans to tarnish their results by playing politics. If it was republicans in charge, you would have seen a full far right agenda pushed through.

I blame obama. He's done nothing but appease the right from his original position.

9/19/2010 12:52:53 AM

oh, yeah, they definitely compromised. that's why they locked republicans out of committee meetings on the healthcare bill, right?

9/19/2010 1:09:59 AM

Aaron, don't spew your liberal-hating BS in here. This thread is for conservative-hating BS only, and making ad hominem attacks on those who don't agree, you chauvanistic, bigoted, homophobic, racist Tea-BAGGER!

9/19/2010 1:16:28 AM

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"If it was republicans in charge, you would have seen a full far right agenda pushed through"

yeah. immigration reform, social security privatization, welfare repeal, and abortion illegalization were such a bitch from 2000-2006

the truth is, republicans mostly picked small fights they thought they could win and were satisfied appointing corporatist judges and slowly dismantling the regulatory powers that be.

[Edited on September 19, 2010 at 1:17 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on September 19, 2010 at 1:17 PM. Reason : .]

9/19/2010 1:16:20 PM

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"slowly dismantling the regulatory powers that be"

You have an odd definition of 'dismantle'

9/19/2010 5:07:15 PM

Here's an interesting strategy to get votes...insult the voters:

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"A testy U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday blamed clueless voters with short attention spans for the uphill battle beleaguered Democrats are facing against Republicans across the nation. “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening,” Kerry told reporters after touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday."

A simple slogan? ... Like ..perhaps... "Hope & Change"?

9/26/2010 12:27:46 AM

He was probably talking more along the lines of "A Pledge To America" aka "The same shit we've been doing for 20 years."

9/26/2010 8:17:39 PM