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Is The Ship Sinking?

By Big Tent Democrat

Gallup generic ballot:

Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP's largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup's history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress.[. . .] Republicans are now twice as likely as Democrats to be "very" enthusiastic about voting, and now hold -- by one point -- the largest such advantage of the year.

Blind Obama loyalists are jumping ship:

Rather than looking helpless, the administration should just start making the argument that we have a choice between prolonged high unemployment or another big stimulus package. Make the election a referendum on that choice. Setting aside that [Obama's] delivery was uncharacteristically terrible, the president's statement on the economy today was pretty pathetic. This ain't getting it done on any level.

This is an interesting critique, but not to the point. The problem was in February 2009 when an inadequate stimulus was sold as a great progressive victory. It's late in the day now for finger pointing.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).