Tuesday's primaries could provide early answers for election year

[IScreamSundays]

Source: WaPo

An angry electorate, which already has delivered a series of shocks to the political system, will render a fresh verdict on Washington, incumbency and both party establishments in a slate of high-stakes contests Tuesday that are shaping up to form one of the most important voting days of the year.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) could be the next incumbent to fall, but by late Tuesday night, everyone from President Obama to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could feel the sting of voter anger that has shaped the election climate and that could produce a dramatic upheaval in Congress by November.

Everyone has a different definition of the anger: anti-incumbent; anti-Obama; anti-establishment; anti-Washington. But the expressions of displeasure are everywhere. Some voters think Washington is spending too much and is infringing on their rights. Others say Washington is not doing enough -- to penalize bankers or to oversee the cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico as oil gushes from a broken well.

Democratic pollster Peter Hart said anyone searching for meaning from Tuesday's races need only look to grievances that have been building for months. "How many times do we need to tell the same story, which is that voters are looking for something that is not in Washington right now," he said.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/15/AR2010051502816.html?hpid=topnews

[unkachuck]

1. Obama's the system....

....we needed systemic change....Obama is proof the system will not change itself....people are very frustrated....

[WeekendWarrior]

2. Yawn

All this amounts to is people chucking out the incumbents. That's what always happens when we're pissed off. Then, in a few years, when we don't get what we want, we'll chuck out the next batch. Rinse and repeat.

[FarLeftFist]

7. True, they may have a good 2010 but a horrible 2012

[FrenchieCat]

3. Well we know the media will report whatever happens as doom for Obama

cause that's what the news is paid to report day in, day out
ever since he became President. They are literally willing
that folks should be more mad now than when the shit was really crazy.

The fucking teabaggers were the focus for a whole fucking year,
cause that's what the news media chose to do....
although those same folks who say they are soooo angry
should be angry with themselves for voting Republican for as long as they have.
Why they'd be angry at Obama for him cleaning up their shit that the folks they voted in
years after years help create, I'll never know.

The fact is that voters went to the fucking polls in 2008, and voted in Democrats,
but ever since Obama was inaugurated, all I've heard about were those crazy asshole
Republican sore losers teabaggers and how they so mad....
although oddly enough, the news never seem to want to ask
why weren't these fucking dumbasses mad like a long time ago?

None of this manufactured "trend" Makes any sense.

[sabrina 1]

4. The teabagger 'movement' is a fake, manufactured

movement. They helped get Romneycare passed by opposing it, when in fact, as Obama himself admitted, it contained so many Republican ideas and so few, if any, liberal ideas, if the teaparty 'movement' had been real they would have supported it.

The media is not responsible for the anger of democrats towards this administration. They are responsible for being as fake an organization as the teabaggers themselves.

People are angry at Obama for very legitimate reasons, not the least of which is that they never wanted to be angry at a Democratic president after eight criminal years of a Republican administration.

The latest reasons include his flip-flop on Offshore drilling. We can't even attack the rightwing for their 'drill baby drill' policies of the past 30 years, without being reminded with glee btw, 'your guy was the one who actually lifted the ban, dummy'! And we cannot deny it, can we?

What do you suggest? We just smile every time he does something John McCain would have done had he made it to the WH, because he has a 'D' after his name?

If anything, the media has been kind to him. They could be listing the number of issues on which he has flip-flopped during the past year. But they don't. They lie, they imply he is something he is NOT, unfortunately as their way of critiquing his presidency, as Socialist! If only!

It's pointless to try to place the blame anywhere but where it belongs. And of course, those of us who supported him are to blame also, for believing he was telling the truth on where he stood on important issues, like the environment, like education, like torture and the economy.

We should have known that a politician will say whatever s/he has to say in order to get elected. But we know now, and the question is who can be trusted with the people's votes?

[Kablooie]

6. The movement is fake but the anger isn't.

[WeekendWarrior]

9. Actually, I think a lot of the anger is overblown

Pumped up by the media. Like any kind of fiction, conflict is essential.

[Kablooie]

10. Like with a dog. If I act excited the dog gets excited. He has no idea what he's excited about.

[AllentownJake]

8. Stop watching TV news

It is better for your health.

[Kablooie]

5. It's what you get with stupid, obstructive Repubs, and weak, scattered Dems