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Look at NJ, Conn, VA where Obama policies were rejected.
Nonsense. Those were just local campaigns where people talked almost exclusively on local issues. You can try to spin it as some how being national but then you'd be pulling it out of your backside.
For all the talk about voters being angry at incumbents there were only 4 Congressional incumbents who lost primary contests this year which is actually about the typical average. The vast, vast majority of incumbents sailed through without any trouble. There will no doubt be a few more incumbents who will lose seats in the Nov election but probably no more then 6 for a grand total of just 10 while the 40 year average is around 7 for just the primaries. If this tepid show is what passes for a "landslide" in the US then it is pathetic.
Guess that whole Tea Party thing didn't really pan out, huh?
Kinda sad in a way. I was hoping for a decent opponent to keep the Democrats on their toes.
By the way, as 'bad' as anyone thinks Obama is...just imagine John McCain and Sarah 'Drill Baby Drill' Palin in the hot seat.
I'd love to see some psychological or sociological study done on this subject. It is a phenomena that fascinates me and I suspect it resides along the line of a study done at ( I want to say Stanford)
In this study, they had three groups of students create a business plan based upon false or faulty data, but was unknown to them. The first group was to offer a one page essay, the second group a one page oral essay and the third group a full blown presentation.
The results were that when shown the premise was intentionally based upon flawed data, the first group abandoned their argument right off, the second group then tried to revise their argument based loosely on their prior work but the last group held fast to their data and essentially rationalized bit of it to make it "fit or work".
The conclusion was that depending on how strongly or how much effort a group puts into a position, the more apt they are to defend it, even in the wake of finding it all bunk, they cling to it and refuse to abandon it.
How this relates to incumbents, I think people say to themselves, Congress sucks bog water, but our guy isn't so bad, as after all, I voted for him so he has to be better than the rest as I would never vote for an idiot.
Could it be a variant of the Stockholm Syndrome?
"In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims."
You're right, it isn't going to be an anti-incumbent election - it's going to be an anti-liberal election.
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