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2010, a Good Democratic Year: NOT!

By Doug Bandow on 10.18.09 @ 2:55PM

In National Journal Charlie Cook warns the Democrats to prepare to run for reelection in the midst of high unemployment. That might make it tough to convince voters that even more big spending programs are the answer to our problems. Writes Cook:

Obviously, there are many variables that can drive a political party's fortune in next November's elections, but the economy and jobs dwarf all others. Polls may show a majority of Americans understand that this recession started under President George W. Bush, but every day, President Obama, and inferentially his party, take on a bit more ownership. By the 2010 midterm elections, the economy will completely belong to Obama and Democrats.

What should concern Democrats is that while there is a diversity of views about just how much the economy will grow next year, the views of both optimists and pessimists converge on the politically important question of unemployment: The consensus is there will be very, very little job growth next year.

Ten percent unemployment wouldn't be good at any time for the incumbent ruling Democrats. This possibility is an especially good reason for the Blue Dogs to consider carefully before voting to nationalize the American medical system!

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Kerry Marvin| 10.18.09 @ 4:46PM

Wonder What the Percentage will be After the Election?
For the Democrats and Republicans?

They are Not worried about the Jobs Now, But they will be worried about Where theirs went, Then!

Reminds me of and old Pepsident Comercial, Wonder where The Democrats went, When they Tried to Stick us with The Wet Cement?

What about when the Ink Dries on the Health Scare, and Crap and Trap?

Maybe they should stick to J-ELLO!

DaveinPhoenix| 10.18.09 @ 8:20PM

This recession did not start under President Bush, it started under the Democratic Congress who wrote the budgets, enacted the legislation, and created the policy which got us to exactly this place at this time.

I'm so effing tired of idiots who believe the president is responsible for every single thing which happens in this country. I despise Obama for his communist leadership, but I blame the other communists and socialists in Congress for forcing his policies upon us. Change in 2010.

Alan Brooks| 10.19.09 @ 9:55AM

As long as the Speaker sworn in January 2011 doesn't read Toffler. That's all I care about.

A conservative must be thankful for small favors.

SC Mike| 10.18.09 @ 8:27PM

So there will be little reason to vote for the Donkeys.

Perhaps the GOP can develop a, er, message or whatever it's called to vote for its candidates. Something like a "commitment to citizens" -- that's rather weak, how abot a "compact with the voters" -- that's an archaic usage, we need something that shows the obligation that GOP candidates will undertake to right the drifting ship of state and redirect her to the course toward fiscal and personal responsiblility that our founders intended.

Is "Contract with America" too in your face? Can the GOP articulate such a course? If not, they may as well walk the plank now...

steveinva| 10.19.09 @ 11:19AM

Right now the republicans are doing the smartest thing they can....................nothing. as the saying goes, when your opponent is self-destructing, the best thing you can do is get out of the way and let them.
2010 strategy shouldn't come till the spring, maybe even summer. if they start now, they'll just give the Dems something/someone to scapegoat and vilify and use to divert attention from their policies.

ghd| 10.19.09 @ 3:24AM

David| 1.20.10 @ 8:19PM

About six months before the Bush Tax Cuts expire, we will see the stock market and the economy begin to tank. This is, of course, perfectly timed for the midterm elections. It will be delicious irony that the removal of the tax cut which the liberals have villified for a decade will, in fact, be the final blow.