"The Democrats' Panic Button Strategy"

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2...emocrats_panic



" On the heels of yet another gloomy jobs report and a slew of polls showing President Obama and his party losing broad support across the country, dread has begun to set in among Democrats that a Republican takeover of the House is inevitable.

In thinking about how Democrats could improve their increasingly grim November outlook, the iconic 1973 cover of National Lampoon magazine -- in which a hand holds a revolver up to a worried-looking dog beside a caption threatening the reader to buy the current issue or else -- comes to mind.

In fact, it seems the White House may be embracing this thinking. Both Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, and David Plouffe, Obama's old campaign manager, have recently stated that a new Republican majority is possible. While their comments were immediately assailed by the party's House leadership, they actually revealed a shrewd strategy: pushing the panic button to spur unengaged Democrats to counter the flood of Republican-leaning voters expected in November.

This may be Democrats’ best hope of salvaging a respectable showing in a brutal electoral cycle -- and staving off another 1994...."

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thanks!!!

[Elwar]

Politics seems to swing back and forth quite a bit.

August of last year Tea Partiers were up in arms about Health Care, by December they weren't as vocal and the Dems jumped at the opportunity to pass it while they could.

Anything can happen in just a few months.

[TNforPaul45]

In the past, I worried about the increasing velocity with which the voting public would go from repub to dem, back and forth, faster and faster, with shorter intervals between the switches.

But having the voting public be stagnant is their choices would be worse. And who knows? Here's hoping that the public gains enough speed in flip flopping that they obtain escape velocity and leave the false left-right paradigm all together.

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In the past, I worried about the increasing velocity with which the voting public would go from repub to dem, back and forth, faster and faster, with shorter intervals between the switches.

But having the voting public be stagnant is their choices would be worse. And who knows? Here's hoping that the public gains enough speed in flip flopping that they obtain escape velocity and leave the false left-right paradigm all together.

Following your imagery makes me dizzy!

But regardless of the long run impacts, in the short run gridlock is DEFINITELY preferable to what we have now.