[quote=pri_dk][quote=briansd1]The only hope for the Republicans is that the economy gets worse, not better in the 4 years of the Obama Administration.[/quote]
True. The Republican partly leadership openly admits that they want the President to fail, and hope that the economic situation gets worse for most Americans. It is the only chance they have to make a comeback in the next four years.
Country First!
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The economy always plays a major role in any election and how Obama handles or mishandles the economy will of course be an issue.
It definitely played a major role in Obama’s victory. He and McCain were in a dead heat until the late fall when the economy fell off the table.
However, the economy is by no means the Republicans only hope.
IMO the Republican party is in great shape as long as Obama continues the next almost 4 years the same way he has started these first 100. His bumbling of appointments to key positions, his complete naivete and ineffectiveness in geo-politics, his blatant pro-union stance, his financing social engineering by ballooning the budget and his willingness to not even look for political consensus on issues but to ram things through, all have many folks, many who wanted a “uniter” elected, wondering what they did when they elected him.
If you listen to the media you would think that Obama won by better than a 2 to 1 popular vote margin or better. He won roughly 54% to 46% which is to say he got 6 out of every 11 votes. If one person in 11 changes their mind the whole election switches around.
And if you follow the polls you would notice his popularity and that of the Dem Congress have been dropping since the election. It was just celebrated that Obama’s approval rating was 61% after 100 days. It sounds good but it is meaningless unless it is measured against others.
So for the sake of context it may be interesting to know that President Bush (W) had a 63% approval rating after 100 days.
Lastly, I don’t even listen to Rush Limbaugh but I think this mischaracterization of his statement about Obama is out of hand, particularly, when as it is being used here to paint all Republicans. He made a comment about wanting Obama to fail in his social engineering. Both of you are expanding it to encompass the entire economy and extrapolating it to an entire party.
