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"The economy is booming in North Dakota because of oil. Unemployment is only 3.7% there. Jobs are so plentiful that there is a bidding war for workers among employers. Motels are booked for months in advance. Home builders are working double shifts. The state has a budget surplus of close to $1 billion dollars."
In other words, North Dakotans are doing swell. So why are their Democrat incumbent candidates facing tough sledding in the 2010 elections? Because the people don't like the way the country is heading. They're angry about bank and auto bailouts, the stimulus, the Obamacare party line vote, and amnesty talk. They're making money and they want to keep it.
My question to you has nothing to do with North Dakota, actually. The lame national news media is covering process not issues in the 2010 elections. They're only covering tight races and how those candidates advertise, debate, hold meetings and criticize their opponents. They nationalize all issues. The national polls don't even ask questions about local issues. (Example: When was the last time you saw a poll question about crime.) We, the national audience, have no sense of the hot local issues in each state, something the media could actually do if they got off of their NY and DC backsides, and away from their charts and poll data, and visited each state prior to Election day.
I want to know if you think that the Congressional elections in your state have more to do with national or local issues. If it's local, tell us what those local issues are. Possible examples: corruption, water rights, declining standard test scores in education, crime, etc.
"The economy is booming in North Dakota because of oil. Unemployment is only 3.7% there. Jobs are so plentiful that there is a bidding war for workers among employers. Motels are booked for months in advance. Home builders are working double shifts. The state has a budget surplus of close to $1 billion dollars."
In other words, North Dakotans are doing swell. So why are their Democrat incumbent candidates facing tough sledding in the 2010 elections? Because the people don't like the way the country is heading. They're angry about bank and auto bailouts, the stimulus, the Obamacare party line vote, and amnesty talk. They're making money and they want to keep it.
My question to you has nothing to do with North Dakota, actually. The lame national news media is covering process not issues in the 2010 elections. They're only covering tight races and how those candidates advertise, debate, hold meetings and criticize their opponents. They nationalize all issues. The national polls don't even ask questions about local issues. (Example: When was the last time you saw a poll question about crime.) We, the national audience, have no sense of the hot local issues in each state, something the media could actually do if they got off of their NY and DC backsides, and away from their charts and poll data, and visited each state prior to Election day.
I want to know if you think that the Congressional elections in your state have more to do with national or local issues. If it's local, tell us what those local issues are. Possible examples: corruption, water rights, declining standard test scores in education, crime, etc.
I think here in AR it is more about national politics. Why do I say that? Because for the first time in I don't know how long, we are about to elect a Republican senator as well as maybe 2 or even 3 Republican reps. The people here upset with the incmubants, mostly due to things like health care.
It's mostly local here in Colorado. There are several tax issues on the ballot, a "personhood" issue declaring a fertilized egg a person, school taxes. That's just what I can think of off the top of my head after a long day at work.
There are several Tea Party candidates running on the Repub ticket, but it's not their Tea Party affiliation that is being discussed.
For our Republican's, they're nearly all trying to make it about national issues, mostly Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
I guess they've forgotten the first rule of politics: "All elections are local."
But North Dakota is an example of where it's not local. Those people, compared to the rest of the country, are doing really well because of oil (notice I did not say solar panels, windmills, etc.) and they aren't voting Democrat.
"The economy is booming in North Dakota because of oil. Unemployment is only 3.7% there. Jobs are so plentiful that there is a bidding war for workers among employers. Motels are booked for months in advance. Home builders are working double shifts. The state has a budget surplus of close to $1 billion dollars."
In other words, North Dakotans are doing swell. So why are their Democrat incumbent candidates facing tough sledding in the 2010 elections?
State legislature are much different than the federal legislatures.
ND house has a Conservative majority 58-35
ND Senate has a Conservative majority 26-21
ND Governor is a Conservative
So it goes to reason, the Progressives they sent to the federal legislature, are going the opposite way of the strong state economy.
North Dakotan's plan to change that so they don't become part of the embarrassment.
In Minnesota, the Governor's race seems to be more local ( state issues) while the US congress races are stricly national issues.
Our 6th District race ( Michele Bachmann vs Tarryl Clark) seems to be the " nastinest" with a lot of misleading ads.
Bachmann holds a 9 point lead and has held that same margin since July ( before either party started bombarded us with ads)
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