Little-Acorn
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- Jun 20, 2006
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Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.
Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.
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2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News
Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.
What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.
Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.
All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.
This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.
This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.
Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.
I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.
To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.
Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.
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2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News
Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.
What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.
Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.
All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.
This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.
This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.
Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.
I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.
To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.