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NRaleighLiberal

(60,013 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 09:52 PM Feb 2012

So I was watching the CBS news - headlines all about the economic recovery -

the success of the auto industry bail out, the improvement in unemployment numbers, the improvements in the housing market.

Then I thought about the insane republicans trying to craft some sort of story or reason why the voters should vote for them - especially since the story is being so neatly written for the Dems - 8 years of driving off the cliff, followed by 4 years of finally righting the ship.....and people would even consider giving the keys back to the cliff drivers?

And then I...




Certainly it's not time for complacency, and certainly the Repubs are going for one issue voters, haters, birthers, racists and bigots...

But I am thinking that they are outnumbered by voters who have at least a basic handle on logic!

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So I was watching the CBS news - headlines all about the economic recovery - (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Feb 2012 OP
Hope You Are Right TheMastersNemesis Feb 2012 #1
It was a great segment tonight. Dow up over 12,000 points. Unemployment claims down in 4 years. Liberal_Stalwart71 Feb 2012 #2
Well said. JNelson6563 Feb 2012 #5
The recovery is happening in spite of the right wingnut bigots. Lint Head Feb 2012 #3
One Can Only Hope You are Right cyberspirit Feb 2012 #4
and remember the money.....lotsa money going to the repub..... a kennedy Feb 2012 #6
Don't worry bongbong Feb 2012 #7
 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
1. Hope You Are Right
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 09:57 PM
Feb 2012

I hope you are right. There are times that I wonder if there are enough logical voters left from all the crazy chatter I hear. By rights the GOP should not have even 50 seats in Congress and that includes both houses. Yet the American voter seems to find a way to make the wrong decision when they vote.

 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
2. It was a great segment tonight. Dow up over 12,000 points. Unemployment claims down in 4 years.
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 10:13 PM
Feb 2012

GM generated unprecedented profit. The GM CEO admits that it was Obama's policies that lifted the company out of the doldrums. The GOP War on Women and reproductive health! Mittens self destructive lying. Rick Santorum's extremist views and that of his major campaign donor.

It was a great day for the president and Democrats!

cyberspirit

(67 posts)
4. One Can Only Hope You are Right
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 10:33 PM
Feb 2012

but remember 2010. Uninformed voters are alive and well. I would love to think they are in the minority. But are they? Guess we will find out in November.

a kennedy

(29,642 posts)
6. and remember the money.....lotsa money going to the repub.....
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 07:40 AM
Feb 2012

and the new requirements for voter ID etc....oh yah, it's gonna be a horse race alright. D*mn.

 

bongbong

(5,436 posts)
7. Don't worry
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 08:17 PM
Feb 2012

The MSM will subtly suggest that recovery is due to repig policies, somehow.

The unhinged anti-American sheep known as "repig voters" will figure out a way to claim that Obama caused the 2007-2011 slowdown, and repigs "fixed" it.

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