Will Mid-term Elections Decimate Democrats?

Suddenly, it feels like 2002. Democrats got creamed in midterm elections that year because the women voters they had relied on throughout the Clinton years deserted them. In 2000, women favored Democratic congressional candidates by nine points. In 2002, that advantage disappeared entirely. The biggest reason: 9/11. In polls that year, according to Gallup, women consistently expressed more fear of terrorism than men. And that fear pushed them toward the GOP, which they trusted far more to keep the nation safe. As then-Senator Joe Biden declared after his party’s midterm shellacking, “soccer moms are security moms now.”

Unfortunately for President Obama, the security moms are back. And as a result, the levee Democrats were counting on to protect against a GOP hurricane is starting to crumble.

AS THE one thing that we all are still waiting to see from him is even ONE single example of "independent" thinking..

IndependentThoughts wrote:

AS THE one thing that we all are still waiting to see from him is even ONE single example of "independent" thinking..

All of my posts exemplify independent thought.  You've conformed your views to follow and obey what the collective heads of your political party mandate.  Don't get your thongs in a bunch because I share stories that you may disagree with.  I think if you would civilly articulate your objections/opinions, you might (just might) bolster your own credibility and perhaps (just perhaps) gain a smidgeon of respect in the process.

You're a very negative and bitter person.  Some counseling would do you well.  

Best of wishes to you.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

IndependentThoughts wrote:

All of my posts exemplify independent thought.  You've conformed your views to follow and obey what the collective heads of your political party mandate.  Don't get your thongs in a bunch because I share stories that you may disagree with.  I think if you would civilly articulate your objections/opinions, you might (just might) bolster your own credibility and perhaps (just perhaps) gain a smidgeon of respect in the process.

You're a very negative and bitter person.  Some counseling would do you well.  

Best of wishes to you.

LW is Australian, so he's not an Obama voter or anything ... and he thinks you just asked him not to get his flip-flops in a bunch

IndependentThoughts wrote:

AS THE one thing that we all are still waiting to see from him is even ONE single example of "independent" thinking..

All of my posts exemplify independent thought.  You've conformed your views to follow and obey what the collective heads of your political party mandate.  Don't get your thongs in a bunch because I share stories that you may disagree with.  I think if you would civilly articulate your objections/opinions, you might (just might) bolster your own credibility and perhaps (just perhaps) gain a smidgeon of respect in the process.

You're a very negative and bitter person.  Some counseling would do you well.  

Best of wishes to you.