Compounding this poll is anti-incumbent sentiment being the highest it’s been in two decades. If a week is a long time in politics, the next year will be an epoch.

Now that he switched to becoming a Democrat, he still trails Toomey in general election polls by more than the MOE and in some polls even trails his likely Democrat primary challenged Sistak so its a move that hasn’t worked out too well for Spectre or the Dems.

And as for far right GOP nominee for President in 2012 – well right now the trio most favoured are Huckabee, Romney and Pawlenty none of which are considered far right (except by the far left). Huckabee was attacked for being fiscally weak, Romney for social policy equivocations necessary to get elected in very left leaning MA and Pawlenty a GOP Gov in left leaning MN. Oh you mean Palin – last I saw she was trailing far behind. All bets are off if General Patreaus decides to do an Eisenhower.

Chris Carter’s working for Obama now?
Is he taking two salaries?

NY 20 (vacated by Karen Gillebrand who took Clinton’s NY Senate seat): 08 Vote 62 D/38 R – Special Election of 31/3/09: 50.2 D/49.8 R
DEM -23

IL 5 (vacated by Rahm Emanuel now Obama’s Chief of Staff): 08 Vote 74 D/22 R – Special Election of 7/4/09: 69 D/24 R
DEM -7

CA 32 (vacated by Sollis who became Obama’s Sec of Labor): 08 Vote No challenger but in 06 and 04 Sollis faced a Libertarian opponent and vote split from left/right was almost identical 85/15 – Special Election of 14/7/09 62 D/33 R
DEM -41

CA 10 (vacated by Tauschner who joined the Obama Admin): 08 Vote 65 D/31 R – Special Election 5/11/09: 53 D/43 R
DEM – 24

NY 23 (vacated by McHugh who became Sec of Army) was an exceptional circumstance as evidenced by a closed room selection that choose uber-liberal Scozzafava to run for the GOP. Add the actual GOP nominee’s vote to Hoffman’s vote and the Democrat Owen would’ve been beaten. Had their been a primary, Scozzafava would never have been the nominee.

If you look at Special Elections throughout 2009 in State Legislatures across the US the results are the same – huge swings to the GOP.

NJ Governor – solid Democrat State
2005 vs 2009: DEM -20
1 pickup in the General Assembly

VA Governor – went easily to Obama in 08
2005 vs 2009: DEM -25
Plus the GOP swept all the down ticket state wide elected offices and got 6 pick ups in the House of Delegates.

So if you want to take heart from all this for the Dems chances in 2010 then I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

The Gallup poll David posted (and it is backed up by Rasmussen who has the generic Republican v Democrat ballot at an 8 point GOP lead vs Gallup’s 6% for all those polled) makes the point that the worm has turned. Independents are who actually got Obama elected – there arent enough blacks and under 30 voters to counterbalance the high voter turnout of seniors who lean solidly Republican. Its the Independents who are deserting Obama in droves and in the actual elections in NJ and VA, by a solid 2:1 margin.

See what I mean about propaganda feeding goldfish?? Here’s a gulping moron who has swallowed the latest tripe and doesn’t know the difference between a cable network and broadcast TV.

(Yes yes I know some FOX people have made the comment, but they were being facetious you foolish attention seeking child)

“Facetious” adjective- Not meant to be taken seriously or literally.

The political debate is so limited by this largely one dimensional discussion framework.

Its like the Democrats have a straight line of communication from their publicists to the mainstream media to the minds of the gormless, who suck up the propaganda so vociferously in slavish ignorance of the fact that there is an alternative perspective.

I think of these morons (that are the target of Democrat propaganda) when I see my granny drop bread crumbs into her gold fish bowl.

Ms Couric writes? You mean her own, actual thoughts committed to paper? Do tell!

So damn right.

(Apart from the last line, Ms Couric helped you write it right?)

I think its more because the Republicans are showing signs of awakening from the Progessive induced coma they’ve been in over the last fourty years, and are preaching a return to governing by the principles of the Constitution.

The “Centre”, as Mr. Farrar calls it, is really Socialism. Americans are not a nation of total dickheads. The more intelligent sectors can see what that Progressivism has done to Europe and almost every Western democracy, and they don’t want to go there.

Well, not any further than they have anyway.

Its the revival of the Republican’s core principles that is making them more popular.

Shame NZ didn’t have a Constitution we could rally around as a focal point for opposition to Progressivism too.

But the mirror image process is occurring in the Democratic Party.

Moderate voters are becoming increasing frustrated at being served up two increasingly unpalatable choices. It is no wonder that there preferences slosh around so dramatically. All they can do is reject the awful people they’ve got in the hope that their replacements might be better (which they probably wont).

They have less money in hand than the Democratic Party.

They are likely to run a far right candidate for President ( or a moderate who lurches right.. go figure) which will be a disaster. But hallelujah let it be

How can this be when the Republicans are rent by internal divisions. After all we know that foaming-at-the mouth, hard-line, far-right, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, religious, conservatives are evicting compassionate, educated, reasonable, sensible, bi-partisan, moderates from the party.
We know that the Republicans are thereby dooming themselves to permanent minority status as a bunch of aging white men from the old Confederacy. The party of “No”: provincial hicks with low-rent accents, lacking passports and Harvard degrees, futilely standing in the way of the progress wrought by leg-tingling members of the rainbow coalition.

Or maybe the MSM’s common wisdom is as fundamentally and stupidly wrong about what’s happening in America as they were a quarter century ago about Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Soviet Union.