Sidestreamer
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That's a mistaken characterization. While I would not call it a majority of opinion, I wouldn't dismiss it as a "weird little group" either. It's somewhere in between.Alli, too, is mistaken. She mistakes her wierd little group as the majority of American opinion, when in fact it is nothing more than a wierd little group.
MOST of the ones I know are like me, voted FOR Obama because McCain looked simply inept during the campaign -- I said even on my radio show that if the campaign was an example of McCain's executive skills, I didn't want him anywhere near the Oval Office in my lifetime.
Obama on the other hand, ran probably the best Presidential campaign in the history of the planet. They were sharp, focused, and on target most of the time. They were organized. And Obama himself is brilliant, well-spoken, and no matter what you think of him now or no matter your stripe, you gotta admire what he's accomplished in his 48 years. A hell of alot more than I have, at the same age.
However, the problem is we wanted change, not tons more of the same. THIS is what the tea party folks are saying. Obama's already got a couple hundred broken campaign promises -- either broken or simply nothing done on -- and the folks are truly, really fed up with politics as usual in Washington. Something else Obama promised to change and has not.
Now, to be fair: I also said that saddling Obama with the same Congress Bush had would make it difficult for him, and it has. Foolishly, I believed Obama would stand up to those loons -- far more than McCain would. Now though it's apparent that's not happening, and the sick, co-dependency relationship Bush had with Congress is now a marriage. Not gonna work. It should always be an adversarial relationship.
People forget that 59.5 MILLION people voted for McCain. That's no small group, and when you add that to the MILLIONS of Indys, Moderate Dems and Moderate Repugs who voted for Obama, it's trouble in 2010 for Congress, and trouble in 2012 for Obama. History shows the party in power takes it on the chin in midterms anyway, but this time it's going to be much worse than usual.
So, instead of parroting the shrill, Big Media and Dem blather about the tea party people, you should study this more, try to be fair-minded and realize the answer isn't either extreme you see. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.
Obama got just over 10 million more votes than McCain. How many of those voters do you think are having major buyer's remorse today?
Lots. A big percentage of them.
(bolding was my emphasis)
I had a rare political discussion with a co-worker Monday after the TEA parties were done and we were looking at the number of people that showed up... we heard different estimates on the networks, some saying 50-60 thousand, a reporter on Fox News saying somewhere north of 100 thousand, a few blogs saying as many as a million. He told me he took a political science class and heard this theory while taking it, where an e-mail to a representative or senator would theoretically represent five people who feel the same way as the one writing the e-mail. The number goes up to 10 per phone call, and 100 per protester.
So, if the theory is correct and we go by the more conservative 60,000 turnout estimate, that's probably 6 million people who support the beliefs spouted at the TEA parties. How many of them registered voters, probably the overwhelming majority but that can't be determined. We had 131,257,328 people who voted for a candidate.
Obama won by a 10-million margin over John McCain as you said... Now this would tip to McCain if we assumed nearly every TEA partier was an ex-Obama supporter...that said, either way, that's a large population in the tank.