Dreadsox said:
What does the latest election prove?
Dreadsox said:I have seen it said in here that the 2004 election was proof positive that the American people believed that the President was correct on Iraq.
What does the latest election prove? The opposite? Or Something else.....
80sU2isBest said:
I don't think it proves that people are against there having been a war. I think they are against the way it's being run.
80sU2isBest said:
I don't think it proves that people are against there having been a war. I think they are against the way it's being run.
Smaller government and less spending hasn't been part of the Republicans stance in over a decade. It's just now that people are realizing.80sU2isBest said:
However, I also think that people are tired of hearing the Republicans promise "smaller government, less spending" but doing no better than the Dems in that respect.
80sU2isBest said:
I think this is a wake up call for the GOP. I think they'll listen to what the American people are saying, and will offer up candidates of integrity, who aren't wimps and who aren't scandal-ridden.
Dreadsox said:I have seen it said in here that the 2004 election was proof positive that the American people believed that the President was correct on Iraq.
What does the latest election prove? The opposite? Or Something else.....
Dreadsox said:What does the latest election prove? The opposite? Or Something else.....
BonoVoxSupastar said:
We can all hope.
80sU2isBest said:
Yeep, and once that happens, then the Democrats can start cleaning their house, also.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
Well it's just that canidates of integrity such as Obama forces others to look for canidates of integrity and start a chain reaction.
80sU2isBest said:
Having said all this, I must add my belief that not all poltiicians are corrupt. There are good people of integrity in both political parties.
Dreadsox said:So was the 2004 election proof positive that the American Public believed in the Iraq war?
Dreadsox said:I have seen it said in here that the 2004 election was proof positive that the American people believed that the President was correct on Iraq.
What does the latest election prove? The opposite? Or Something else.....
Dreadsox said:So was the 2004 election proof positive that the American Public believed in the Iraq war?
Irvine511 said:perhaps the American people simply need to read 1441 more closely?
Irvine511 said:wrong.
in 2004, the perceived threat of terrorism, here and abroad, was the #1 issue.
in 2006, the #1 issue was Iraq.
perhaps the American people simply need to read 1441 more closely?
Snowlock said:and we're back to the focus-group politics of the 90's.
Irvine511 said:wrong.
in 2004, the perceived threat of terrorism, here and abroad, was the #1 issue.
in 2006, the #1 issue was Iraq.
perhaps the American people simply need to read 1441 more closely?
Yeep.STING2 said:
The vast majority of US troops overseas were deployed in Iraq at the time. The majority of US expenditures overseas were in Iraq and the majority of US casaulties were also in Iraq. The United States had not been hit by a terrorist attack in over 3 years. US troops were gearing up for a major offensive into fallujah. The fact of the matter is, the most important issue to this country for the past 3 and half years has been Iraq. In 2004, an election with over 122 million people voting, for the first time since 1988, a majority of Americans voted for the winning president and for the first time in 40 years, the incumbents party picked up seats in congress instead of losing them. A majority of the American public supported the war in 2004 helping George Bush win re-election despite pathetic liberal movies like Michael Moore's fahrenheit 9/11.
STING2 said:
The vast majority of US troops overseas were deployed in Iraq at the time. The majority of US expenditures overseas were in Iraq and the majority of US casaulties were also in Iraq. The United States had not been hit by a terrorist attack in over 3 years. US troops were gearing up for a major offensive into fallujah. The fact of the matter is, the most important issue to this country for the past 3 and half years has been Iraq. In 2004, an election with over 122 million people voting, for the first time since 1988, a majority of Americans voted for the winning president and for the first time in 40 years, the incumbents party picked up seats in congress instead of losing them. A majority of the American public supported the war in 2004 helping George Bush win re-election despite pathetic liberal movies like Michael Moore's fahrenheit 9/11.
Dreadsox said:A HUGE difference in this election......
According to CNN exit pollings here in 2006 the number one issue important issue was....
THE WAR IN IRAQ not MORALITY
And Wouldn't you know it.....Of the states in the 2004 Election that voted AGAINST same sex Marriage the following elected Democrats this time around:
Montana Senate
Ohio Senate
Arkansas Governor
Ohio Governor
Kentucky house of Representative
Ohio House of Representatives
I see Ohio Changing Two Major positions over.....
No Gay marriage initiative to bring out the vote.
No Morality as an issue.....
Iraq was the issue THIS TIME....not in 2004.
STING2 said:
It would be extremely absurd to suggest that the Iraq war was not an issue in 2004. More Americans were killed and wounded in Iraq in 2004 than in any other year of the war. The United States has been spending several Billion dollars a week on the war. There is simply no other issue that impacts the country more when it comes to costs than the Iraq war and that is what people vote up or down on in elections, regardless of what CNN exit polling of a fraction of the people voting claims to reveal.