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My hometown politics - you get what you vote for
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by YankeeJim | November 1, 2010 at 05:19 am
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Back in the “Buckeye State,” Ohio and in my hometown, Columbus, the politics have been pretty much the same all of my life (though I have been away nearly all of my adulthood). Typically, it is a moderate community. Sometimes Republicans are on top, and at other times, it’s Democrats in the lead. It goes back and forth, depending. Depending upon what? Usually, the economy plays the most significant factor governing peoples’ moods. They really wanted Obama to move the nation forward. There was much enthusiasm for that.
Now, enthusiasm is replaced by disappointment that things are not getting better. Yet, I look around at who will lead the new Republican Congress and there sits John Boehner. That is a wide open disappointing figure with a proven track record without accomplishment. Mr. Do-Nothing will lead the House, if Republicans win. If Democrats had wanted to win this election, my strategy would have been to feature the new leader in all of his disappointing characteristics. He didn’t deliver for his own community. He plays a lot of golf at resort locations and holds a nice suntan while sniping and grousing and doing absolutely nothing. You get what you vote for.
“As Midwest suffers, Democrats may lose a key foothold
By Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 1, 2010; 1:42 AMCOLUMBUS, OHIO - On Oct. 6, 2006, Senate candidate Sherrod Brown stood before a crowd of Ohio State University students and predicted the political upheaval that was about to take place.
"This year, when you knock on doors, when you go around your dorms, when you go around your communities, you're going to matter," the Democrat pledged to the cheering audience. "You're going to change the direction of this state. And if we change the direction of Ohio, we change the direction of the United States of America."
That's more or less how history transpired - at least for the four short years that Democrats would dominate the Midwest. The party's 2006 victories in the area set the stage for President Obama's sweep of the region in 2008.
But just as quickly as Midwestern voters embraced Obama and the Democrats, they are now recoiling from them. The sagging economy has a lot to do with it, of course. More Midwestern manufacturing plants have shut down over the past two years than when George W. Bush was president, and Democratic candidates here are struggling.”
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YankeeJim
Arlington, Virginia, United States
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at 05:39 on November 1st, 2010
People never get what they vote for.Had it been otherwise,alternates,with a hope for a better deal would have never been tried every four years.Now people vote for the cnadidate which,in their opinion,would disappoint them less.