Republican Ice Age?

One point in Republican's favor? The liberal elite are less likely to have kids and more likely to have abortions. So at least on the birthrate of whites, the Conservatives win.

This guy at Time is dreaming. Yes - eventually the hispanic demographic will change - but the claim that they will still be voting for the left is pure conjecture. This is not written in stone - and many hispanic business owners are catching on to the fact that voting for Democrats is the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.

If we can get ourselves off the socialism bandwagon - hispanics and whites alike will find that we are all better off.

And you start a post today - of all days - accusing the republicans of losing power - when example after example are showing that conservatives everywhere are gaining electoral ground against the left. Ted Kennedys seat was lost to a republican for gods sake - WAKE UP!!

Some people will be singing about how the left has won - long after we have taken our country back from them.

Here's a poll that came out today.....

The latest WSJ/NBC News poll brought more bad news for President Obama and the Democrats.

"For the first time in his presidency, more Americans disapprove of Obama (48%) than approve of him (45%), according to the poll. Meanwhile, 62% say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, the highest level since before the 2008 elections, and just 40% give him positive ratings on his "ability to handle a crisis," down from 51% in January."

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/for-obama-the-hits-just-keep-on-coming-508361.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,BP,XLF,XLE,GLD,TBT

Republican Ice age my ass.

Another interesting factor is how independent the electorate has become. It used to be about 55% Dem & 45% GOP, but now at least in Colorado, it is 33%GOP/33%Dem/33%Independent. People just don't want to be locked in and will often change votes each election.

My gut feeling is that the upcoming elections will have more to do with ousting entrenched incumbents than party affiliation. I know that some of the folks I work with were rabidly pro-Obama before the election. Now they don't like him at all. I think more than a little bit of that is that they had very unrealistic notions of just how much "change" could be brought about in DC. IMHO, change in DC is on a geologic timeframe. A change in presidency has little or nothing to do with it. I know that quite a few folks I work with were very much for McCain until he announced his running mate. Many of them saw the choice of Palin as a cynical move on the part of the GOP to look "progressive" (pardon the pun), and were put off by her lack of experience and her gaffes.

Certainly it will be an interesting election season!

I, too, think the mood will be "vote ALL the bums" out for awhile. I don't see the Republicans doing any better than the Democrats on that account. The Republicans still have to get over the "party of 'No'" perception.

I've noticed through the years that regardless of who I voted for, things in Washington pretty much stay the same

I'm wondering about a viable third-party candidate and a viable Democratic candidate that might challenge the president. But, if he's anything like past presidents, you'll see a flurry of activity and things getting passed in his last year in office -- prior to the election.

Gee, I thought this would be a thread about Al Gore and his pick up lines for massage therapists.

Now that I realize it's political, here are my thoughts: 1) liberals are minority; 2) Obama and Biden are making GW Bush and Cheney look brilliant. 3) Algore is crashing and burning with his climax change and people are starting to catch on to his fraud, 4) solar and wind energy is a rich man's free energy source paid by taxpayers, 5) millions on unemployment and they see government workers eating well and living well, 6) small businesses are still in pause, 7) we have another wind of foreclosures coming, 8) vouchers in Washington DC produced higher graduation rates; thus, we could have a huge push for transformation in education, 9) taxes will rise in 2011 10) health care costs are going to rise , 11) and China still makes us their sex poodle, 12) Harry Reid is bye-bye even his son has dropped his last name in campaign advertising, 13) did I mention unemployment ...if I did...I will again....because there are millions unemployed and they are getting restless, 14) democrat run liberal states are bankrupt, 15) Republicans should keep yelling Drill baby drill and get rid of the EPA so we don't have to drill in high risk areas, 16) Republicans should keep saying no to more spending and drill it home that the democrats are funding today's votes with your grandchildren's enslavement....is that a legacy you want to leave with your vote, 17) liberals are cracking at the seems....either you go Alinsky or Etheridge on your opponents, 18) Obama and his war strategy sucks

wow, it looks great for the democrats - if you are a mushroom

I, too, think the mood will be "vote ALL the bums" out for awhile. I don't see the Republicans doing any better than the Democrats on that account.

I'm for replacing all the big spenders - republican or democrat, that's what I see happining right now. A bad republican can cause just as much damage as a bad democrat. I do think that we have more bad democrats though - as they are larger in number in the congress and even at the state house here in Colorado.

So I see many a democrat being caught up in the change coming in November, but some republicans too.

I see tea party candidates doing pretty well - and if they stick to the ideal of following the constitution - I support them. So many of the problems we have now would just go away if we follow the roadmap that made this country great to begin with.

I do think the left has more to lose in this round.

I think after yesterday's Republican veto of extended jobless benefits, the Republicans can kiss the votes by the unemployed goodbye.

Extended unemployment benefits lapsed at the beginning of June. By Friday, more than 1.2 million people out of work for longer than six months will have found themselves ineligible for the next tier of extended benefits, which were originally provided by the stimulus bill to fight the recession.

Those 1.2 million potential voters won't forget which party is responsible.