Economic catastrophy may be the price of throwing the GOP out of power.

[jazzjunkysue]

It's like chemo: It kills the cancer because it almost destroys the patient. (Sincere apologies to those who have experienced this.)

We may actually have to throw out the baby with the bathwater. This may be what it takes to wake up apathetic americans.

Remember this line: "I don't pay any attention to politics." ????!!!!

That was common 5-6 years ago. Anyone heard that one lately?

I'll bet more people are tuning in to the news and reading the paper this week than ever, maybe since the last depression.

Any guesses what the final vote tally will be? Usually, less than half of all americans vote.

Maybe this time, it will approach 75%.

[AllieB]

1. Once again, Republicans ruin the economy.

And the Democrats will have to clean up the mess.

[Xipe Totec]

2. All politics are local

and there is nothing more local than your own wallet.

(ETA: Are you better off now, than you were 8 years ago?)

[terrya]

3. I hate realizing that the bad economy will tip this for us.

These are people's lives, their jobs, their pensions/investments, etc we're talking about it. Real, ordinary people are beind affected by this economy.

But I think the economy will be the deciding factor. Americans will see that McCain/Palin don't give a damn about ordinary, working class Americans and will vote accordingly.

[rfranklin]

4. Utter destruction of the economy was needed in 1932...

Most people are too stupid and lazy to educate themselves and analyze why their lives are going down the drain. It takes catastrophic events to get them to look out for their own best interests. Even then, they most often end up with a Mussolini or a Hitler rather than an FDR.

[izquierdista]

10. 37%

Remember, even then, 37% of the voters decided that Hoover deserved another 4 years.

[Kutjara]

5. I really doubt the GOP want to win this one.

Looks to me like the Geritol Maverick and Caribou Barbie were the candidates least likely to win, and that's precisely why they were chosen. The GOP will let the Dems win, whereupon the full weight of the catastrophe wrought during the past eight years will descend on the country. Then, in four or eight years, the GOP will sweep in to "fix all the problems the Democrats caused."

[villager]

6. Americans tend not to "wake up" short of out-and-out catastrophe....

n/t

[tblue]

7. I thought the war would do it, but most people hardly thought about it. Then I thought it'd be

gas prices, but people just complained, adjusted around them, and kept going in the same direction. Now that their financial foundations are crumbling, they're starting to get a clue.

If this is what it takes, I guess this is what it takes.

[Ikonoklast]

8. When the stupids have to take a wheelbarrow full of cash

To go food shopping, they'll start paying attention.

[OHdem10]

9. The sad truth.: A few months ago, American preferred generic

Democrats to Republicans by 15 points.

Now only 3 points difference.

The Democratic Party had best get busy.

[JSK]

11. The Pukes may well decide

that it's not worth stealing after all.

[ailsagirl]

12. bastards