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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Liberal Media Watch

In looking at the media coverage from the last two days, one would think that the Tea Party has stormed the castle and is about to kick the anti colonial Kenyan out of the White House. The "liberal" media has been played perfectly by the supposed haters of it (Palin, O'Donnell etc) in playing non stop footage with one general theme: INCUMBENTS BEWARE!!!

One problem, though...as always....are the facts. From CQ Politics.

Through Tuesday’s primaries, more than 98 percent of House and Senate incumbents seeking re-election won their primaries.

Numbers don't lie, folks. So while we do see that more incumbents have lost than in recent years, the media (surprise, surprise) has massively exaggerated the victories. Here are some pretty pictures that further illustrate this fact.


Even in 1994, the re-election rate for incumbents was 90 percent in the House. I'd expect something between that and 94 percent this year. The races that will more likely swing GOP are the ones with no incumbent. Now that we are in the general, it's going to be much harder than people think to topple incumbents.

The numbers show it's easier to do in the Senate which is why the certain victory in Delaware (now a near certain loss for the GOP) would've helped a lot. There's no incumbent there. Add in candidates like Sharon Angle and it's even tougher given that Reid is an incumbent.

Odd, that the Right has fallen for the media's narrative considering how much they loathe the "MSM."

6 comments:

sw said...

why arent you talking about obama or how great the democrats in congress are doing?

juris imprudent said...

Hey did we EVER actually find out what is IN the HCRA?

Anonymous said...

This isn't juicy enough for me. Let's discuss this:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/campaign-protestors-decry-conservatives-as-nazis/

juris imprudent said...

Maybe this is why M isn't talking up the greatness of the Democratic Party and it's agenda or this Congress/Administration accomplishments?

Yup, nothing like a big dose of fear to motivate the electorate, eh M?

rld said...

"This needs to be a choice, not a referendum"

Guess they don't want the election to be a referendum on what they have been doing. Not a resounding endorsement of the last 2 years is it?

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