Reply #10: Good to hear

[Proud Liberal Dem]

They've been busy doing nothing but obstructing and heckling President Obama and, when forced to present *real* plans, they've been totally laughable- so much so that nobody in the corporate media is even taking them seriously and certainly not like they did the Contract For (On) America back in 1994. And yet, despite all of this and some of the new polling, I'm certain that the corporate media whores will stubbornly persist in repeating the meme that 2010 is going to be as much of a disaster for President Obama and the Democratic Party as 1994 was for then-President Clinton.
However, with the "teabaggers" either forcing otherwise mildly *sensible* Republican candidates to pander to them or actually fielding candidates, I fail to see how this year is going to be a wash out for the Democrats. Back in 1994, the Republicans were still fairly moderate and hadn't gone completely insane yet. Additionally, they hadn't controlled Congress for decades so I suspect that some people voted for them thinking that some positive change would come out of it (plus the Republicans REALLY ginned up hatred and anger at/about the Clintons).
Now that they have recently owned Congress for 12 years and presided over a disastrous 8 years in the WH, people know more about what they're about and, even after two years of relentless propaganda-spewing, attempts at historical revisionism, and Obama-bashing, their favorability ratings have barely budged from where they were during the past two election cycles. It seems hard to believe that a party suffering with such serious polling and other problems could waltz right in and take back Congress, especially not if the Democratic Party puts up a good fight (and decent candidates).