Could the GOP Blow Its Lead?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 7th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Could the GOP Blow Its Lead?
Mark McKinnon, The Daily Beast
Well, it was inevitable and predictable. Political physics have kicked in: Some polls are tightening. Democrats, the press and some opinionators are doing cartwheels over headlines suggesting it may not be such a GOP rout in November. Like the witches in Macbeth, they stir the pot and conjure ruination. Right now the GOP has message, money and momentum. It's going to be pretty hard to screw it up. Is the gap closing? Probably. It always does as you get closer to an election.
2011’s Uncharted Political Waters
Tony Blankley, Washington Times
The New York Times has written, in explaining why the political parties have lost the confidence of the public: “Their machinery of intrigue, their shuffling evasions, the dodges, the chicanery and the deception of their leaders have excited universal disgust, and have created a general readiness in the public mind for any new organization that shall promise to shun their vices.”The New York Evening Post, in explaining the same condition, has written that the people “saw parties without any … difference contending for power, for the sake of power. They saw politics made a…
