The Electoral Death of the Left

Posted by NosferatusCoffin | January 15th, 2010

I am not trying to harp on this, but harp I will since there is no getting around it at this point. No matter how much spin is spun by every network and political hack from across the nation.

The Left is electorally dead.

Let us take a look at what has happened over the last 10 weeks, which seems to be a harbinger of very bad things for the Leftists that have run the Democratic party into the ground. Bigger than the rout of 1980. Larger than the sea-change of 1994 that gave the GOP their first majorities in both houses since 1954.

November 2009:

NJ: The Democrats lose the governorship in one of the bluest and most corrupt Democrat enclaves in the nation. And lose decisively.

VA: The GOP storms to victory with a crushing defeat of the Democrat candidate in the governor’s race. Just as importantly, the GOP captures every major statewide seat in the Old Dominion. A complete and total wipeout.

NY-23: A conservative independent, who no one had heard of 6 weeks earlier nearly pulls up a major upset and almost certainly would have if his own party had not been actively working against him.

As the holidays approached and the tea leaves started forming, many embattled and veteran Democrat lawmakers could see the handwriting on the wall and the no votes on the ballots.

Byron Dorgan announced he would be stepping down at the end of his term this year, rather than face almost certain defeat.

Chris Dodd, Corruptocrat Extraordinaire and one of the most unethical men ever to serve in the Senate (which is saying something) read the polls that showed him trailing by as much as 30 points and decided to get the hell out of Dodge, ahead of the massive ethics charges that very well may have come his way. Call it a Pete Carroll move.

Bill Ritter, seeing the same anti-Democrat wave, decided to bow out and not seek another term as Colorado’s executive.

And of course, the hottest thing going right now, the MA Senate race is looking like an upset of Harry Truman proportions.

From The Washington Examiner: (Hat Tips: Strata-Sphere and Sister Toldja)

Here in Massachusetts, as well as in Washington, a growing sense of gloom is setting in among Democrats about the fortunes of Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley. “I have heard that in the last two days the bottom has fallen out of her poll numbers,” says one well-connected Democratic strategist. In her own polling, Coakley is said to be around five points behind Republican Scott Brown. “If she’s not six or eight ahead going into the election, all the intensity is on the other side in terms of turnout,” the Democrat says. “So right now, she is destined to lose.”

Intensifying the gloom, the Democrat says, is the fact that the same polls showing Coakley falling behind also show President Obama with a healthy approval rating in the state. “With Obama at 60 percent in Massachusetts, this shouldn’t be happening, but it is,” the Democrat says.

Given those numbers, some Democrats, eager to distance Obama from any electoral failure, are beginning to compare Coakley to Creigh Deeds, the losing Democratic candidate in the Virginia governor’s race last year. Deeds ran such a lackluster campaign, Democrats say, that his defeat could be solely attributed to his own shortcomings, and should not be seen as a referendum on President Obama’s policies or those of the national Democratic party.

Not a “a referendum on President Obama’s policies or those of the national Democratic party”? Sheesh.

They just do not get it and like they did with Deeds, are passing the buck and the blame to the Dem candidate, while totally overlooking the anti-Left, anti-Liberal and anti-Obama wave that will cost the Dems 100+ seats in the House and Senate and only Lord knows how many seats in the state races.

I say, let them continue to bury their heads in the sand. Come November, they shall be buried under 100 feet of it.

Also, it has been announced that Obama will indeed be traveling to MA this Sunday.

As Michelle puts it:

Please do for Coakley what you did for Chicago’s Olympic bid.




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