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"Prediction: Pain" for Democrats in 2010

Adobe Walls Wrote: Dec 18, 2009 9:02 PM

I seriously doubt there’s time to get a viable third party together by Nov 2010 or even 2012. The last successful third party was the Party of Lincoln in the 1850s. The third presidential candidate movements since then, were really just third man movements that either fell apart or went back to being a marginal party as before. Far easier to retake the republican parties local units. We do however do need to responsibility and then take action.
The notion that nobody outside Washington is eagerly awaiting 2010 just shows how clueless people inside the beltway are.

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"Prediction: Pain" for Democrats in 2010

As the 2010 mid-term elections cycle swings into gear, Democrat pollster Fred Yang admits that the outlook for his party isn’t so rosy.

“I think Mr. T said it best for the Democrats in 2010, ‘prediction: pain,’” he said, making a reference to the character that Mr. T played in the 1980s television series The A-Team.

Yang, who heads the Garin Hart Yang Research Group, explained his position alongside Republican Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies at forum hosted by National Journal. Both men agreed that Democrats had an uphill...

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