Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
So far it is a landslide for Obama, which is what I predict in November as well. Probably not by the same margin as in this poll, but by a decisive margin.
Honestly we really won't know until October sometime when things start to really pick up and get crazy. Last time I checked though a 5 point poll lead is not a land slide. Obama will need a double digit lead if he wants to put the election on lock down.

The Republicans have done nearly as much damage to their own party as they have done to the country and world at large.
Republicans.. democrats.. They've both done huge damage to their party. Congress is a democratic Congress yet it has an approval rating hovering around 20%. Doesn't sound like Democrats are faring much better.

I honestly wished we had a more diverse party system enforced by legislation.


Now and then there is a politcal, cultural or economic event that shifts the balance of power for decades. The Great Depression shifted power to the Democrats, and it lasted for a very long time. The cultural turmoil of the Sixties shifted power to the Republicans and it has lasted for a long time too.

I think maybe the discontent of the last eight years, with the war, with ignoring important issues like global climate change, with decling wages and other economic issues, with a overblown debt and deficit --- I think maybe this decade is going to be one that Democrats will use to punish Republicans for years to come. Republicans held control of all branches of government for most of this time and they drove the country into a ditch. They cut their own throats with their incompetence. They are done.
You could possibly be right. 20 out of the 28 years the republicans have held office. I honestly don't feel they've driven us into a ditch. However I feel the party has definitely veered very far from what it once stood for.