2010-midterms will be 2008 redux

[DetlefK]

Remember the republican primaries: All the fanfare, all the grandiose, and in the end people gave it a second thought and a fairly moderate guy named McCain won.

And the election itself: All the extremism, all the hatred, and in the end people gave it a second thought and a fairly moderate guy named Obama won.

And the 2010 midterms? Taking on Obama makes you feel good, whether you are a betrayed liberal or a rabid right-winger. But in the end, it again comes down one thought: Which candidate suits my interests?







If you are a republican: Can you afford to vote for a republican who wants to take you back to pre-Obamacare days, who wants to privatize your Medicare (erhm, I mean "phasing out"), who thinks caring for the needy (might be you one day) is bad?

If you are a liberal: Can you afford not to vote? Can you afford to lock yourself out of the political process?
How are liberal democratic politicians supposed to press through their policies inside the Democratic Party, if they can't claim representing voters?

[zbdent]

1. how can the Republicans claim that McCain was not the choice of the Republicans

when it was the Republicans who chose him to represent them?