Dr. Ada Fisher: Looking at the 2010 midterm elections
By HHR | November 3rd, 2010 | Category: Featured, Opinion/Reviews | No Comments »
Contrary to expressed opinion, the 2010 midterm elections were both a referendum on the Obama Administration as well as the ability of the Democratic Party to hold its fragile coalitions together and mobilize their base. Democrats employed a cloak and dagger strategy with an okey-doke philosophy to downplay their numbers and what they wanted out of this. The Tea Party Movement of center right conservatives of all stripes took the Democrats and Republicans off of their game plan in an unpredictable disorganized non-coordinated fashion.
While candidates struggled for money, Obama sat on his $150 million surplus from the 2008 Presidential Campaign in likely anticipation of a 2012 run where he would have problems generating the same level of funds raised in 2008. Rather than appreciate the messages of the Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News stations, etc. simply for what they were — dissenting opinions; Obama the democrat went on the defense making the American people the enemy, seeing racism in any opposition to a black president with a supportive pile on expressed from the previously traditional media, and letting the President show his true colors in noting “We won and you loss,” or “They need to get to the back of the bus” or definitions of those who opposed his policies as “the enemy.”






