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The Hurricane Approaches

What I heard here — and in subsequent interviews at the National Governors Association convention in Charleston, S.C. — from one Republican after another signaled serious trouble for the GOP across a broad swath of states from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma in key midterm election contests for House, Senate and governor. The impression these Republicans had […]

What I heard here — and in subsequent interviews at the National Governors Association convention in Charleston, S.C. — from one Republican after another signaled serious trouble for the GOP across a broad swath of states from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma in key midterm election contests for House, Senate and governor.

The impression these Republicans had is that support for GOP candidates had nose-dived this summer — in part because of the chaos conveyed by the daily televised scenes of destruction in Iraq and Lebanon and in part because of the dismal reputation built by the Republican Congress that is home to many of the endangered GOP candidates. ~David Broder, The Washington Post

Read the article and look at the part where one of the Ohio GOP leaders speaks ominously about a repeat, not of 1994, but of 1974, the year of the Watergate and general anti-GOP backlash.  It’s tough being the ruling party and having nothing but failure to show for your record over the last several years.  After a while, that really has to wear out your constituents, most of whom would normally prefer a competent GOP over the Dems any day–the trouble is that no such party any longer exists on any issue that matters to GOP voters.  The patience of GOP voters may have just about run out.

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