Quick fact: Memo to Hannity: Democrats swept Congressional races last week
Pointing to Republican victories in last week's gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, Sean Hannity asked if they are "a preview of sort of what a lot of people expected what happened in '93, '94 to happen here," specifically that "the Republicans can take back the House and Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker."
From the November 11 broadcast of Fox News' Hannity:
HANNITY: I think, you go back -- first look at Gallup. Independent registered voters support Republicans 52 to 30. That is a 22 point gap. You follow polls, both of you. That is a huge margin.
NICOLLE WALLACE: Huge. And it is I think the best piece of evidence we have that the Democratic solutions are more offensive to independents than the problems. I think everybody agrees that the problems are dire. Our economy is sick and is weakened. But people are more distressed about the Democrats' ideas for solving our problems than they are about the gravity of the problems we face.
HANNITY: And if you add to that the election results of last week, you know, 25-point swing in Virginia, 20-point swing in New Jersey, and independents by 20 points in each state, 21 points going towards Republicans.
SANDRA SMITH: Right, and what did those candidates focus on was the economy. They focused on taxes, they focused on jobs. And clearly what's happening here is we're realizing -- you know, the public is realizing the Democrats are ignoring their biggest concern is the economy.
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HANNITY: A lot of people say the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races are a preview of sort of what a lot of people expected what happened in '93, '94 to happen here. Now if you look at Charlie Cook -- Cook's Political Report -- there are 77 Democratic-held seats that he says are competitive, only 26 Republican seats. Is it possible, with the intensity levels and these numbers we're looking at, that the Republicans can take back the House and Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker?
FACT: Democrats won both special elections in the House of Representatives. Although Hannity highlighted Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia in invoking the 1994 "Republican Revolution" in which the GOP took control of both houses of Congress, he failed to mention that in the Congressional elections held last week, Democratic candidates won. Indeed, in both special elections for the House of Representatives, New York's 23rd Congressional District and California's 10th Congressional District, a Democrat was elected.
So I guess you're wrong MM. Keep up the good propaganda machine though! We all need a handout and we need your help.
And everyone knows that the rest of the Union is not the same as the Republic of California. All those liberals out there, and oh yeah, aren't they bankrupt? Even the republican governor in CA is a liberal.
But again, I do need a handout, and I need my neighbor to pay my bills for me. I'm too ashamed to ask them directly though... so please get this health care reform passed!!! Then the Government can take his money and give it to us. If he cries about (like all conservatives do when we're showing our greed and taking their money, we'll just call him a racist - that tired trick still has some play in it).
God Bless Russia
I realize that you (unjustifiably) feel more secure, safer, with him around. But really... You should put him out of our misery.
I don't know, but since you evidently don't either, it's a straw man argument to bring it up. Furthermore, we do know that Hoffman didn't actually live in the district, and in interviews showed himself to be as well informed as, frankly, Sarah Palin. The fact that he garnered much of a vote at all bespeaks shame on the voters.
And interestingly enough, a FOX poll shows that Americans blame the Democrats for the decimated economy, the astronomical federal deficit, and the two failed wars!
We also found in our FOX poll that this fictional character some leftwingers call "George W Bush" was a creation of the liberal media! He actually never existed at all! And, frankly, the American people wish the Democrats would be more fiscally responsible as well as more sensible in foreign policy decisions like the GOP!
This is all fabulous news for Republicans as we head into the mid-term elections next year!
Not just Faux which is just nothing but lies anyways. But main main stream. They always want to emphasis opinion on conflict, drama.
"Is Obama doing enough". "Is Obama doing too much". "Are dems losing in the polls.....some people thing so".
Give me a break! Thank god for MediaMatters and Thinkprogess. Shining a light up the sphincter of BS source.
The writer(s) don't have to actually do a whole lot of research, present background and context, dig into the issues and present information that could be helpful to the reader or the viewer.
They never get around to mentioning that the last time the party in the White House won the governor's office in New Jersey was 1985. Virginia? Oh - that was 1977...
Delicious irony!
Whoa nelson...the state of NY has not certified Owens as the winner. Owens lead has shrunk from 5335 votes to 3026...with more than 10,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted.
NY has not certified the race. Hoffman is 3000 votes under Owens and there are still 11199 military absentee ballots to count. Most of these are expected to break for Hoffman. This calls into question Pelosi's Healthcare vote because she allowed Owens to vote. When Hoffman wins this election it will constitutionally nullify the healthcare vote
-- Conklin said the state sent a letter to the House Clerk last week explaining that no winner had been determined in the 23rd District, and therefore the state had not certified the election. But the letter noted that Owens still led by about 3,000 votes, and that the special election was not contested -- two factors that legally allowed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to swear in Owens on Friday. --
I don't know if the reporter on this story has any credentials concerning the rules of congress...but even if Owens vote is nullified...it wouldn't affect the outcome of the healthcare vote.
I'd like to see your scenario play out but it doesn't look good right now...thanks for the info.