Polls: A sleeping giant has awakened !
New poll shows dramatic increases in anti-incumbent sentiment sweeping the nation. The corruption, mismanagement, and incompetence of our federal government and the nation have finally awakened the sleeping giant that was the silent masses, if these polls are at all accurate. Fox News found similar results in their poll reported on Aug. 11.
The big question is how this sentiment will carry through the "Hoodwink Cycle in Full Spin Mode" and into the ballot booths on Nov. 7. Some very strange things are happening. Democrats are running competitive races in places like Wyoming and Idaho, where 30% of the vote used to be considered good for a Democrat. Similar results in reverse can be found in some Southern Democratic strongholds like Louisiana. Harold Ford Jr. even appears to have a shot at being the first black Senator from
his state.
There are going to be some very eye-opening results this November. You anti-incumbent supporters are definitely not alone in the country anymore. Speak out, you have a the widest audience for the anti-incumbent message since at least 1994.
Of particular interest to VOID and its supporters is the following from the CNN article linked above:
Nonetheless, 48 percent said that, if most of the present members of Congress were replaced with new members, there would be no difference. By contrast, 42 percent said such a scenario would change Congress for the better, and 7 percent said it would change Congress for the worse.Our job is to turn that 48 and 42% numbers around, showing how in fact, incumbents losing in large numbers, will have a healing effect on Congress, if repeated over a couple of election cycles.
It takes that long for Congress to assimilate new information. I mean, 5 years after 9/11 and they are just getting around to securing a few miles of our borders. We must keep the pressure on, through 2008, and 2010 if need be.
Comments
Thank you, David. I suspected this was the case, but, it is very heartening to see statistical evidence to back up my intuition of what's going on behind the news. I see Hardball is talking up the anti-incumbent movement too! Chris Matthews is a bit slow, but, eventually, he usually gets it.
Posted by: Margie | September 8, 2006 6:52 PM