Comments on: Does Unemployment Affect Midterm Elections? http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/11/13/does-unemployment-impact-midterm-elections/ "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:05:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Adam http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/11/13/does-unemployment-impact-midterm-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-23022 Adam Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:28:38 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=9936#comment-23022 Brad, Republicans can oppose the way the banks were greased -- many did, as did many Democrats -- and unemployment knows no political favour, really, because both sides can use it. If the sort of attacks Dylan Ratigan makes on MSNBC -- that Obama has employed people to solve the problems originating on Wall Street who are themselves too deep in with the people that caused the problems -- stick, then it won't matter whose been championing deregulation. Like Bush, he'd have committed the worse sin of all, looking incompetent (which isn't enough to lose an election on its own, as we learnt in 2004, for all that I think it should be, but it surely doesn't help). Brad, Republicans can oppose the way the banks were greased — many did, as did many Democrats — and unemployment knows no political favour, really, because both sides can use it.

If the sort of attacks Dylan Ratigan makes on MSNBC — that Obama has employed people to solve the problems originating on Wall Street who are themselves too deep in with the people that caused the problems — stick, then it won’t matter whose been championing deregulation. Like Bush, he’d have committed the worse sin of all, looking incompetent (which isn’t enough to lose an election on its own, as we learnt in 2004, for all that I think it should be, but it surely doesn’t help).

]]> By: thimbles http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/11/13/does-unemployment-impact-midterm-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-23019 thimbles Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:12:18 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=9936#comment-23019 <blockquote> More likely: “Change. Can you spare some?” </blockquote> Followed by "Yes, we got canned."

More likely: “Change. Can you spare some?”

Followed by “Yes, we got canned.”

]]> By: Brad http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/11/13/does-unemployment-impact-midterm-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-23018 Brad Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:56:32 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=9936#comment-23018 <blockquote> If the story can be sold that Obama is responsible for double digit unemployment while plying trillions to save banksters with whom he has not regulated strongly by the time of elections, it’s going to be ugly.</blockquote> You do realize he's probably going to be running against a Republican, yes?

If the story can be sold that Obama is responsible for double digit unemployment while plying trillions to save banksters with whom he has not regulated strongly by the time of elections, it’s going to be ugly.

You do realize he’s probably going to be running against a Republican, yes?

]]> By: Rojas http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/11/13/does-unemployment-impact-midterm-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-23014 Rojas Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:40:04 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=9936#comment-23014 More likely: "Change. Can you spare some?" More likely: “Change. Can you spare some?”

]]> By: thimbles http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/11/13/does-unemployment-impact-midterm-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-23012 thimbles Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:08:35 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=9936#comment-23012 It also depends on the media coverage of said unemployment. It's one thing to be a victim of circumstance, it's another when people point to you as responsible for circumstance. If the story can be sold that Obama is responsible for double digit unemployment while plying trillions to save banksters with whom he has not regulated strongly by the time of elections, it's going to be ugly. The wishy washy DLC democratic mainstream is poison, and I'm not the only one saying it. http://www.truthout.org/1111099 Obama ran on Change. It's not going to be hard to craft a cynical message of "Change? For the worse, if any." It also depends on the media coverage of said unemployment. It’s one thing to be a victim of circumstance, it’s another when people point to you as responsible for circumstance.
If the story can be sold that Obama is responsible for double digit unemployment while plying trillions to save banksters with whom he has not regulated strongly by the time of elections, it’s going to be ugly.
The wishy washy DLC democratic mainstream is poison, and I’m not the only one saying it.
http://www.truthout.org/1111099
Obama ran on Change. It’s not going to be hard to craft a cynical message of “Change? For the worse, if any.”

]]> By: Brad http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/11/13/does-unemployment-impact-midterm-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-22992 Brad Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:51:07 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=9936#comment-22992 <p style="font-size:xx-small;">*Apparently. </p> *Apparently.

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