Look closely at this election in Cal.

[msmcghee]

Exit interviews showed voters who were 70% content with the state's economy 11 months ago when they elected Davis to a second term - were now overwhelmingly unhappy with the state's economy and blaming Davis for it.

How did this happen? I asked this question a week ago and I was told by some here to calm down and try to keep a positive attitude.

But this tells me that the economy will be a big part of the next election - and that the pukes will try to innoculate themselves and shift blame to dems somehow. Impossible you say? The electorate would never be that stupid?

With the whole world knowing that Enron and other puke-supporting energy companies screwed Cal out of 9 billion dollars, how were the dems not able to take that to the bank and make the repukes responsible for Cal's budget woes?

How many Americans are ready to believe "tax and spend" Democrats are really to blame for the US deficit and Bush* with his wise repuke advisors is doing what he can to dig us out from under the huge economic problems he was given by Clinton and 9/11 - poor guy.

I know it sounds impossible that anyone with a brian cell working would believe that - but that's what many said about the voters in California.

Looking closely at what they (Rove) pulled off in Cal could be revealing. I'm sure Rove saw this as a test case. They've spent millions planting the "tax and spend" meme in American's minds for the last 30 years. Now, they are planning to cash in on that investment.

[diplomats]

1. But Davis was the incumbent

And Bush will be the incumbent in 2004, so he won't escape blame for the economy, either.

[msmcghee]

2. I hope you're right.

And I hope it's that simple. I don't think it is.

[ewagner]

3. With Repub control of Congress

Blaming the deficit on "tax and spend" democrats is going to be hard.

Although these guys are really good at "the big lie" game.

[msmcghee]

5. Don't be so sure.

The vast majority of people are not capable of logically opposing the memes that they carry. And for most Americans - their whole concept of politics is meme driven and has little to do with logic.

I've said this many times here - Carl Rove understands memetics far better than the Dems.

Here's a new one - Memes that are already well established in the minds of the "morans" will determine the outcome of our next election.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. They said that because...

THAT is what was feed them by the media 24/7.

The truth didn't somehow enter into it.

The media helped elect Arnold, no doubt about it.

[msmcghee]

6. One way to look at the media . .

. . is that they make more money when the feed us back stories that fit with the memes we carry in our minds. When we read those stories we feel good, secure, we feel like the world is going according to our internal emotional map.

If they feed us a story that contradicts those memes, we feel lost and out of control - as if events are threatening our sense of stability. We won't read that newspaper if they do that too often to us. That's why people like certain newspapers or TV chanels - like FOX or NPR.

So what you say is true. And that is why we need to worry.