{"id":11794,"date":"2010-07-06T07:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11794"},"modified":"2010-07-06T07:16:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:16:14","slug":"the-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11794","title":{"rendered":"The Tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Hinderaker on\u00a0the latest polls on the Tea Party<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/a> Tea Partiers are people who have a more sophisticated understanding of current events than those who describe themselves as anti-Tea Party. Anyone who doesn’t realize that the exploding federal debt represents a serious threat to our future either is a fool, or doesn’t have children. (That, actually, would make for an interesting survey.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here was the part I thought was interesting:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The responses on terrorism are interesting, too: there is evidently a common thread between obliviousness to the dangers of debts we can’t pay and to the dangers of Islamic terrorism, but it is hard to see what that common thread might be, other than blind, stupid loyalty to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing?<\/p>\n

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As the economic news continues to worsen, voters are appropriately growing more surly. That is reflected, I think, in\u00a0this Rasmussen survey<\/a> finding that 60% of likely voters–a figure that matches the all-time high–want Obamacare repealed. Maybe that is due to recent news reports about the effects of the government takeover bill, perhaps in part due to a general lack of confidence in the administration’s economic competence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I did learn one thing (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

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Disillusion with the Obama administration, which can hardly be disentangled from disgust with the Reid\/Pelosi regime in Congress, is reaching dangerous levels–dangerous, anyway, if you’re a Democratic office-holder. In the\u00a0Washington Post<\/a>, Chris Cillizza points out that President Obama’s approval rating among whites is almost exactly the same as President Bush’s was two years ago<\/em>. (I had forgotten, actually, that in 2008 Obama lost the white vote by 12 points. This was, however, a significant improvement on John Kerry’s performance<\/em>.) It took President Bush seven and a half years to fall to that level; Obama, just 18 months.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So apparently the only reason not to vote for John Kerry was racism, too?<\/p>\n

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