Survival Instinct starting to take over the election

[rpannier]

It appears that in many Senate races the republikkan candidates for Senate are starting to shift their focus toward getting votes by telling voters that there will be a need to check President Obama.

This is starting to appear in states like North Carolina (probably also Kentucky and other vulnerable states)

For the record, republikkans are not saying they expect to get control of the Senate, they are trying to keep the Democrats from getting 60 seats (or more) which would make an Obama administration filibuster proof.

At the same time Senators like Dole are floating this concern, they're also saying that they believe mcbush is going to win. They're saying this in an attempt not to appear disloyal to the Party.

Their target are independents. Polls (for what they're worth) show that most independents like divided government and some polls (apparantly) have shown that independents strongly support having a divided government.

It's what they did in 1996.
What's old is what's new I guess.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. The only way Republicans will have a shot at divided government in the future

is to run more moderate or centrist candidates. The Republicans didn't seem to care about divided government when they had the Presidency, both Houses, and the Supreme Court in their pocket in the early years of the Bush Administration. They've been shifting farther to the right for awhile and now the party's over.