A political earthquake.

Based on the news reports, it looks like the voter turn-out was in the 20% range. So, the White House/Democrats will need to figure out how to get all of the non-caring voters back to the polls again. I wonder if there will now be a program that will reimburse a voter for taking the time to go and vote? Just kidding...
Have a great week!

Amy...the polls also prove what just happened with the recent ousting of liberal democrats.

"
The U.S. political climate heading into 2010 is not as favorable to the Democratic Party as it was in 2006 and 2008. Though Democrats continue to have an edge in party affiliation and President Obama retains majority approval, congressional approval and satisfaction with the U.S. are low.
Read more at GALLUP.com.


"Americans are much less sure than they were a year ago at the time of his election that President Barack Obama will be able to accomplish a number of challenges facing his administration. In particular, far fewer Americans believe he will be able to heal political divisions and control federal spending."
Read more at GALLUP.com.

Amy...this just reported. The White House was asked if Obama watched the elections results last night. They said no, but he was briefed from time to time. So what did he watch? A special about Obama and his 2008 campaign! How do these liberals not see what a wacko not just politically, but mentally, we have in the White House!

A political earthquake!

"The North Country of New York has sent a Democrat to Congress for the first time since the 19th century."

Republicans should gain some ground since the Democrats lost some focus and the main contributor to the party's organization. I can't argue that Bush wasn't good for something!

Jim where is your source for this?

Amy...this just reported. The White House was asked if Obama watched the elections results last night. They said no, but he was briefed from time to time. So what did he watch? A special about Obama and his 2008 campaign! How do these liberals not see what a wacko not just politically, but mentally, we have in the White House!

Start counting your chickens now.

Amy...
More Americans now say President Barack Obama is governing from the left (54%) than expected him to do so just after the election (43%). Less than half (48%) currently think he is keeping his promises -- down from two-thirds (65%) in April.
Read more at GALLUP.com.

Onlyoneme...MSNBC Ok with you for the source for starters?

Onlyoneme...after your liberal MSNBC, how about the White House? Is that a good enough source??

“Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

I understand that you are completely incapable of citing sources, Jim. So don’t get mad when we have to ask where your information is coming from.

Onlyoneme...I cite all my sources when they are facts and not opinions. I also state when I give an opinion. Something you do little if any of.

Now, are you happy with this source? care to debate Amy's blogs and my facts for a change?

Actually Jim is so good he'll go so far as to make up stuff to prove his point if he can't find it!!!

What a joke! Thanks for the laugh Jim.

Amy and Jim - If a conservative party candidate, lets say a an ideological pure canidate runs on a Conservative Party ticket, would you support them over the Republican if the Republican were mreo moderate?

Yes AMY your 1,000 year Republican Majority can now get back! You will exterminate the liberals! All of them!

I imagine using Daleks as role models would work well.

Jacob...care to back your lie with some facts? What part of this fact and source is untrue? “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

And also reported on MSNBC, your main news outlet little guy!

Hey libs...do you know how many independent voters voted for the conservative vs the liberal democrat last night in NJ and Virginia?

“I cite all my sources when they are facts and not opinions.” - Hayett

If I am to believe this, than all you ever post are opinions.

Actually, Jim you should cite your source regardless if it is fact or opinion. If you didn’t say you need to cite it.

Jim - Again Facts never get in your, or did you already forget when you made up that Obama quote?

”I cite all my sources when they are facts and not opinions. I also state when I give an opinion. Something you do little if any of.
Now, are you happy with this source? care to debate Amy's blogs and my facts for a change?” - Hayett
This is just too funny, just hilarious.
You never provide any “facts” to debate Jim, you are saying here that they are all opinions. Since you do not cite any sources, and you rarely if ever post a url for anyone to read the article you plagiarized your “facts” from. Actually I can’t blame him for not watching the election results, I am sure that the HBO special was much more entertaining.
This blog by Amy is counting the chickens before they have hatched. Speculation on what she hopes will happen in 2010 and 2012.
What is there here to debate??

This was not an political earthquake, but merely another tremor in the awakening of the American people. President Obama was elected in a continuation of the revolt that started in 2006, continued in 2008 and will continue in 2010 and 2012. It is a rejection by the American people of the fascist government that has existed in this country since the Reagan era. The representatives we send to Congress do not owe their allegiance to the people that elected them, but rather to the corporations that funded their campaigns. When Pres. Obama was campaigning, he was funded primarily by individual donations, rather than major corporate funds. Since his election he seems to have fallen into the mold of most elected officials, more beholden to special interest groups than the American people. Until he wakes up and starts to represent the people instead of the corporate interests - the financial industry, the insurance industry - he will continue to fall in the polls. There needs to be a strong third party that offers an alternative to the current established two parties.

Onlyoneme...after your liberal MSNBC, how about the White House? Is that a good enough source??

“Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

These are good enough sources for you??? If so, you need to reverse that lobotomy. These are all LIBERAL sources!! This is why I call you liberals, "village idiots!"

Jacob...let me ask this again.


Jacob...care to back your lie with some facts? What part of this fact and source is untrue? “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

And also reported on MSNBC, your main news outlet little guy!

"What part of this fact and source is untrue?"

According to Major Garrett, all of it. He makes the correction at about the1:45 mark.

http://media2.foxnews.com/110409/shepmajor_700.wmv

Hey libs...the independent vote tally for the conservative vs. the liberal democrats was 2-1. I didn't think you knew the answer!

jmark...sorry, your URL only proves my point and that Obama didn't watch the elections and that Gibs changed his answer as to what Obama was watching and it wasn't the elections!

"Gibs changed his answer"

How on earth did you come to that conclusion? Major Garrett confirms that he misrepresented what Gibbs said. Watch the video dumb dumb.

IBD 11/5/09

They may love him in Norway, but President Obama is rapidly losing favor with the independents that boosted him to the White House.

His support among self-described independent voters has fallen from about 73 in February to just 45 this month, according to the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index.

The survey found that some 44% of independents say his handling of the economy is poor or unacceptable vs. only 29% that gave him high marks. Similarly negative results were found on handling the budget (48%-23%); health care policy (54%-24%); Iran (38%-28%); Afghanistan (38%-25%); and foreign policy overall (38%-32%).

jmark...here's what Gibs said. yes, he did reference HBO but now says Obama watched a Bulls game. But he DIDN'T watch the elections that he campaigned for and ended up taking away 20 plus point leads for the demos he backed!

"Gibbs made this statement at the beginning of the untaped discussion with White House reporters:


One thing I should contextualize – the President obviously got updates about the election last night. He did not watch – as I told some of you – did not watch election returns. I wouldn’t read a ton into that since he didn’t actually watch election returns when he was running. If you did watch the movie on HBO – we called him and told him he won Iowa. He did not watch election returns.


Clearly Gibbs was simply referencing the HBO documentary as evidence that the President does not routinely watch election returns.

Later in the gaggle, Gibbs was again asked if the President watched the election results. Gibbs reiterated: “He was not sitting in front of the TV watching them. Again, I sent him some e-mail updates and I talked to him....He just doesn’t – I mean, again, and I don't mean to sort of oversimplify this, but he never watched them when he was running. He just doesn’t.”

Here are the indisputable facts:

Yesterday, during their 10:00 broadcast, FOXNEWS misrepresented the truth. During the 9:00 broadcast Garrett admitted as much, stating "my mistake".

You presented their misrepresentation of the truth as being factual in your 7:18 post:

"What part of this fact and source is untrue? “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

FOX admitted to their error.

You have yet to do so.

jmark...nice try to get away from the facts with Amy's blog. When the truth hurts liberals like you, they run, hide, or try to change the subject. Not with me pal! This will be my last comment on this.

First, read this comment from Gibs: "Gibbs made this statement at the beginning of the untaped discussion with White House reporters:

One thing I should contextualize – the President obviously got updates about the election last night. He did not watch – as I told some of you – did not watch election returns. I wouldn’t read a ton into that since he didn’t actually watch election returns when he was running. If you did watch the movie on HBO – we called him and told him he won Iowa. He did not watch election returns."

That says, it sounds like Obama watched his special on HBO but Gibs then changed his comment and said he watched the Bulls game. Either way, I was right in the fact that Obama didn't even bother to watch the elections that he so desperately campaigned for. These are the facts and if you can't accept the truth, get a life and debate Amy's blog. If you believe Gibs retreat then Obama didn't watch his narcissist show. If you believe Gibs first answer, than you believe Obama watched HBO. Either way, another liberal may have lied or just screwed up.

There is no error from me (not this time) because FOX believed Gibs. Quite frankly, I don't care what he watched but it certainly wasn't the elections that we now find out Obama's campaigning cost both dems there jobs! Good for you Mr. pres! Keep up the good work!

"We won a congressional seat that's been in Republican hands since Ulysses S. Grant was president, in part because of the disunity in the Republican Party," Axelrod said. "That was the only truly national contest on the ballot."

LAKESIKE LIBERAL...nice try but not the case at all. Go read the polling results as to why the indep. voted against the dems. in NJ and Virg. 80-85% said they don't believe in Obama and the direction he is taking this country. that's the reason Pelosi looked so scared on TV last night!

However, just as big a vote was the 31st state to vote down gay marriage (Maine) and keep the traditional marriage as between a man and a women.

Jim: Sometimes I marvel at just how vacant you can be.

Gibbs: "If you did watch the movie on HBO – we called him and told him he won Iowa. He did not watch election returns."

You: "Clearly Gibbs was simply referencing the HBO documentary as evidence that the President does not routinely watch election returns."

You: "What part of this fact and source is untrue? “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

Do you see the difference between what he said and what you and FOX say he said?


You were right that Obama didn't watch the election results. Who cares!? Would watching somehow effect the outcome?

Jim: Maybe I'm just doing a poor job of explaining this to you. Try this:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911050008

@ jmark ...I think it's that you are trying to explain instead of simply complying in agreement. You must enjoy working against the odds...

"Yet throughout the day Wednesday, Republicans grappled with the disappointing outcome of a special election for what had been a reliably Republican House seat in upstate New York. That contest became a battleground between the party establishment and a conservative insurgency demanding more ideological purity from candidates.

The race was won by a Democrat, Bill Owens, after the Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, a moderate, quit as conservative leaders and grass-roots organizations rallied around Douglas L. Hoffman, who ran on the Conservative Party line.

Despite Mr. Hoffman’s loss, many conservatives promised to press on with opposition to centrist Republican candidates. That vow intensified concerns among party leaders that the opportunities they see coming out of Tuesday’s results could be dimmed by intramural battles over whether to reach for the political center or do more to motivate the base on the party’s right."


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/us/politics/05repubs.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Onlyoneme...what is more important, but won't be in the liberal papers, known as the failing MSM, are the facts as to why the dems lost in very powerful liberal states that are leaders in the amount of registered democrats. The polls show the voters have had enough with the overly liberal Obama and Pelosi and how they are handling the economy and healthcare. Watch how many dems will run from this bill. Know why? Winning the next election is the most important issue on earth and beyond, to a liberal democrat.

"Winning the next election is the most important issue on earth and beyond, to a liberal democrat." - Hayett

Sounds like it is just as important to the conservative republicans.

taerrable! demoncraps cant allow toow win! tehy won another election! all ends must come to the lords side! geneses 1:28! in his name! eye dont mind you lady speaching out about this.

very powerful liberal states that are leaders in the amount of registered democrats... according to Jim
........Voters do not register by party in Virginia, and Virginia conducts "open primaries" where any voter may cast a ballot for either party...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Virginia

Hmmm. Let's see. A race in New York's 23rd congressional district - in which only 100,000 people voted. The republican challenger - Dierdre Scozzafava - pulled out the weekend right before the election. The RNC finally threw it's support behind the conservative candidate at the last minute. The Democratic candidate won by 4% of the final vote tally. 49% to the conservative candidate (Doug Hoffman) 45%. The Republican candidate - who had withdrawn - received 6% of the vote total. And Scozzafava - another RINO, had thrown her support behind the Democratic candidate (Owens).
While in Virginia and New Jersey -both states that went for Obama in 2008 (especially NJ), millions of votes were cast. Yet, Republicans swept all. And for some reason, the New York 23rd congressional seat is a sign of triumph? No matter how the Dems try to spin this, it doesn't pass the smell test.