...I'm thinking the RW media lost it's bid to herd US voters

[Sheepshank]

While this article is positive about the energy of voters to finally come back to pragmatism, and re-think the mass firings of all current politicals, I personally think it's a bigger picture of the RW media's and pollsters failed attempt to herd voters into voting conservative and more importantly voting strongly for Tea Party candidates.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100609/us_time/08599199527200

People are unhappy. They've been unhappy for a while - through Enron and the dotcom bubble bursting, 9/11, two wars, Katrina. They thought Barack Obama would bring change but few have felt the changes he's wrought: Who can imagine how bad the economy could have gotten sans stimulus? It feels bad enough as it is. Then came the Gulf oil spill. If 2008 was a change election, 2010 promised to be even more so. Incumbents are even more unpopular than they were in 1994, the Washington Post told us. Voters favor newcomers 60% to 32%, Gallup reported. Indeed, voters took out their anger at the polls, electing virtually any yokel who promised change or who railed at the Washington establishment, and sending home four congressional incumbents. The narrative thus far? Throw the bums out.

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....but voters proved them wrong and Lincoln wrangled a surprise comeback. In Iowa, Republicans bucked the Tea Party trend and gave former four-term governor Terry Branstad another shot at his old job. Likewise, in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, six Tea Party candidates went home disappointed last night as the establishment Republican, State Senator Robert Hurt, ran away with the nomination beating his closest opponent by more than 20 points.

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On the whole, it was a better-than-expected night for Democrats. Lincoln starts her general election as an underdog but most experts say she has a better shot of beating Rep. John Boozman, the GOP candidate, in conservative Arkansas than Lt. Gov. Bill Halter who was much more progressive. And Reid couldn't have asked for a better candidate in Angle than if he'd picked her himself: the former State representative is a ultra-conservative who supports phasing out Social Security and Medicare; wants to abolish the EPA, and the Department of Energy and Education; and most recently got into trouble for supporting a prisoner drug rehab program that included massages.

[FSogol]

1. When the Repubs are not in power, they always promote the meme that

there is an anti-incumbent mood. While people may not like the incumbents, it is usually others incumbents that they are dissatisfied with. The incumbents usually get re-elected.

[Scurrilous]

2. K & R

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