Early Signs of a Political Earthquake
The past few weeks have been filled with indications that the mid-term elections in early November of this year have the potential of some major re-alignment in Congress. And there are also signs that incumbency might be a serious negative for many current member of Congress and as we can see, their reactions are different. Even though there are quite a number of them, we will list just a few examples here:
1. Mr. David Obey, a forty-plus year Democrat (spell Liberal) from Wisconsin who currently still chairs the powerful House of Representative’s Appropriations Committee decided to call it quits. His reason for doing so was just simply being “bone tired” after so many years. We are not buying it but instead believe that he had a serious Republican challenger in a very long time in his district according to the polls. This person, conservative 38-year old Sean Duffy, a district attorney in Wisconsin has been endorsed by among others the former Governor from Alaska, Sarah Palin. While she is continuously being maligned by liberals and the mainstream media, she appears to be effective, would you not agree?
2. Mr. Bob Bennett, a Republican U.S. Senator from Utah was ousted recently by the Utah Republican Party rank and file delegates who voted to support two other candidates to be nominated for the upcoming Republican primary election. Bennett while being a conservative was being faulted of having voted for recent bailout legislation and his pleas to return him for another six-year term to office went unheeded. His post-ousting statement, while sincere and tearful, was pitiful to say the least.
3. Mr. Allan Mollohan, a Democrat Congressman from West Virginia lost a few weeks ago his primary election bid. He was solidly defeated and the voters in his district elected another man who campaigned against government bailouts and further vast spending by the Federal Government. Mollohan was also several times under ethical investigations and it appears, the people in his district just had enough of him and decided to terminate his representation in Congress.
4. Arizona Senator John McCain has for the first time a serious Republican challenger in former Congressman J.D. Hayworth and McCain has ‘rediscovered’ his conservatism and he is campaigning non-stop for his re-election in the primary in August.
What can Common Sense University, if anything, conclude from this? Most certainly the answer is that a much greater interest and awareness exists these days among people who are normally not heard from politically speaking, at least not in an ‘off-year’ election as this one is. All polls indicate that there is great unease in America about the economy, the high unemployment rate that does not seem to change a lot from month to month and the fast increasing national debt. And despite the liberal media’s endless attempts to downplay this, the general public is concerned about the three above mentioned issues.
Add to this the nationwide Tea Party movement and their activities and one can easily see the rumblings of an oncoming earthquake in early November of this year. Being an incumbent might not be an advantage in 2010, in fact, history might record this year as one where incumbents became endangered species. We here at Common Sense University are advocating this type of change because incumbency has shown us very little to like about it. The political spins about incumbents being more powerful is becoming less attractive and they have one thing against them newcomers in the election process do not have, a record of legislating, i.e. excessive spending among other such actions and those records can be visited and reviewed, analyzed and possibly be found as no longer desirable by the electorate. We will get the answer in about five and a half months, we just have to wait.
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