Poll regarding Utah's Senator Orin Hatch:
Re-Elect Hatch: 45%
Someone New: 48%
DavidNYC writes at the Swing State Project: "What this poll tells me is simply that there is a potentially very strong anti-incumbent wind a-brewin'. It won't be enough to knock down Orrin Hatch, but it'll leave a lot of weaker GOP politicians flat on their behinds."
d.a.n said at :
11:41 AM, 12 05 2005 | Permalink
No doubt about the anti-incumbent sentiment.
The People are starting to realize that both main parties are just taking turns being irresponsible and unaccountable.
And why shouldn't they, if they can't even name but one or two responsible and accountable politicians, much less 268 (half) of the 535 incumbents in Congress?
The People should investigate the policians voting records, history, and headlines. It's really amazing how they vote. 99% (maybe 100%) all look the other way, all vote on pork-barrel, all take big-money from big-money-donor-puppeteers, reject campaign finance reform, reject tax reform, and reject anything that will lessen their stranglehold on power or remove them from their cu$hy, coveted seats of power.
And voters are starting to realize there is insufficient transparency (by design) to even know who to vote for or against. Everything has been so over-complicated to hide the corruption and reduce transparency (like thousand page BILLs laden with pork-barrel and graft). The People are starting to wonder why so many serious problems continue to be ignored year after year, and continue to grow in number and severity.
The People are starting to get the feeling that they have been cleverly seduced into a circular pattern of thought and behavior, and (ironically) tricked into voting for the same incumbents who enjoy a 95% re-election rate.
The People are starting to realize that the two main parties are blocking access to more and better choices of candidates, while the corrupt incumbents continue to just take turns using and abusing the people.
The People are getting fed up.
Can you blame them?
The U.S. can do much better.
But all efforts are futile without first realizing the core problem, and the simple, just, and responsible solution.
Simply do the right thing.
Vote out irresponsible government.
All of them, until they implement no-brainer simplifications and transparency to show The People who to hold responsible and who to praise and re-elect.
d.a.n | December 5, 2005 11:41 AM
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