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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Make No Mistake Tuesday's GOP Surge Was about Obama.
*The dumbest thing that progressives, liberal Democrats and much of the media did following Obama's election a year ago was to gloat and smugly declare the GOP dead.
The silly line repeated incessantly was that the GOP has been reduced to a dwindling bunch of good ole' boy redneck yahoos in the Deep South.
The even sillier line was that the GOP was so backward, discredited and marginalized that it was well on its way to sinking to a fringe party about as popular as the Socialist Labor Party and the IWW. Tuesday's election should have smashed that delusion.
The bad mistake liberals, progressives and the media made was to confuse Obama's popularity with support of his policies. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Polls repeatedly warned that while a majority of voters still say they personally like Obama, they don't like, or are at best, are deeply ambivalent about his polices.
The checklist is well-known; his failure to wind down the Iraq War, his threat to escalate the failed, flawed, no win war in Afghanistan, a muddled, patchwork, terribly compromised health care reform plan, failure to rein in Wall Street profiteering, skyrocketing unemployment, bottomless home foreclosures, a stimulus shell-out that hiked the deficit but created few sustained, verifiable, long term jobs.
The even worse mistake was to misread the 2008 presidential election results. Much was made that he got more white votes than John Kerry or Al Gore. That he revved up young whites, and that he totally exorcised race from the campaign. Obama's win supposedly was final proof that America had kicked the racial syndrome. This is the stuff of media talk and wishful thinking. Despite... (Read More Here)
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