ABB & Voting Republicans Out

[sandnsea]

I was thinking about another post and that all Republicans do when faced with a controversy is to neutralize it. Shore the base and plant seeds of doubt in the swing voters. Then go back on message, decisiveness and independence (or something like that).

Anyway, it occured to me that Democrats never vote FOR a President. We couldn't possibly get behind a central message, it's hysterical to actually try to think that we could. I mean that in the nicest way possible. We ALWAYS vote the Republicans out.

FDR, the people voted Hoover OUT.

JFK, the people voted OUT the economic malaise of the 50's.

Carter, the people voted OUT Nixon and anything associated with him.

Clinton, the people voted OUT the "out of touch" Bush.

If you want Bush OUT, then the way to get him OUT is ABB. That's the only thing Democrats, or non-Republicans, ever rally around.

What do you think? Make sense? And LBJ doesn't count because after JFK was assassinated, whole different mood in the country.

[prodigal_green]

1. 1996

People voted FOR Clinton.

on edit: elections after a first term are always considered a referendum on the sitting president. Republicans keep screwing up so we keep voting them out of office.

[StopTheMorans]

2. good reply, it hadn't even occurred to me:)

n/t

[sandnsea]

4. In 1996

But he never would have gotten in there in the first place if we hadn't voted Bush OUT. That's my point. We don't get riled up to vote until we want a President OUT.

[prodigal_green]

5. I don't disagree

my point is that people rarely vote FOR the challenger, whether Democrat or Republican. This type of election is considered a referendum on the sitting President. In other words, it is assumed that it is his position to lose. If people weren't pissed, they wouldn't bother to vote at all, they'd just shrug their shoulders and happily carry on. People were better off in 1996 than in 1992, so they voted Clinton back into office. I believe turnout was pretty low for that election, no?

The way the chimp is going, he's "losing it" (in all the wonderful senses of that phrase).

[Virginian]

3. Dems improve the economy

so that more people think they are rich enough to vote Republican. Then the Republicans get in office and the economy turns sour and the swing voters are no longer rich enough to vote for Republicans.

Thus the expression: "If you want to live like a Republican, you need to vote for a Democrat."