Are Democrats too confident in 2008 election race?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071024/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_dc

I think the approval rating of Congress is going to have an effect on the Dems. People aren't just upset with the Repubs, they are also upset with the Dems they elected.

Answer 1

Yes, they usually are. That's why there was so much shock and disbelief after the last two Presidential elections.......

Answer 2

The main problem is that most people only get their information from the News Media, they do not take the time to do their own research, if the Media had been right, Gore would have been President, Howard Dean would have won and the Democratic nomination, and even after that they said Kerry was a shoe in...but with all the polls they run, which are usually done in an area that they know they will get the response that they want...the Media tries to fool people into think their way, or in other words, there is no need to go vote because our candidate has already won...but in the end the Presidency is not won in New England or the Left Coast, it is won in the Heartland and the South, and no one running for the Democratic Nomination has a chance in either area...why do you think they do not campaign there? Hilary and Obama come to the South and talk to special interest groups, but not the majority of the people, so what does that tell you? Unfortunately for them, they are not running against Bush, so attacking Bush, or what Bush does, does not help them...

Answer 3

So many people would like to see a third major political party. Unfortunately, big business generally gets in the way of that happening (as, of course, big business is sleeping with Big Brother).

I think that the Dems are overconfident--but they're gonna have just as rough a time as the Repubs--at least that's the way I see it.

Answer 4

Overconfidence is unwarranted but the Democrats don't have any worthwhile competition at the national level. Also if Bush keeps going on the way he has, the Democrats are assured a victory.

As for the approval ratings for Congress, many Democrats are also upset with Congress and give them low ratings but that doesn't mean they're going to vote Republican. I would like to see Congress be more proactive on the Iraq War and publicize Republican obstructionism more.

Answer 5

I agree that people aren't happy that the Dems haven't ended the war. if there were a plausible third party, Dems might have reason to be worried, but the fact is that the Republicans got us into the war to begin with, so the Dems are still going to look like a better option to most.

Answer 6

Yeah! and likewise what approximately having Exxon start up working off ALL of those tax differments that oil companies have been receiving for some years? reason hell if we are able to make everyone pull their very own weight around right here it capacity everyone. via the way that homeless guy is on the line for a reason. lower back interior the previous days we had centers to handle our mentally sick ( you be attentive to cuz it become the humane concern to do ) yet one in all those great Repubs, I belive Nixon become his call-o decrease out the investment. Do reallly have self assurance that homeless everyone seems to be livin' it up on your tax money or do you think of merely maybe the actual occasion is on the Halliburton, Carlisle, KBR christmas occasion?

Answer 7

People like to whine and complain when they are in groups of two or more.
The Democrats do a very nice job of constructing a format and guidelines for complaining about incumbent politicians with fantastic and terrible scenarios of doom.
When people get home and are alone, they start to actually think rationally with their hands very close to their wallets and eventually vote Republican.
Who would have thunk that with all Cronkite was saying and all the Hippie demonstrations and civil rights movements and race riots that Richard Nixon would be in the White House?

Surprise Surprise!
Fiscal sense was the order of the day. I'm not saying he delivered but, it's what thinking adults always want.

Answer 8

I think so...if you look at the ENTIRE country not just the coasts, I dont think that Hillary will get enough electoral votes to win the White House, so I Im sure that the Dems would gamble on supporting a woman for President in 2008. Obama wont puul it off either not because hes Black, but because his politics really come across as unexperianced.

Answer 9

They definately are too confident. Hillary has a lot of problems as a candidate as does Obama. Edwards would have a much better chance but probably can't get the nomination. Of course the best candidate would be Gore who would be close to a lock.

Answer 10

I'd say so.

BATON ROUGE, La. - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India to pursue the American dream.

Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican, will be the nation's youngest governor. He had 53 percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday's election outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071021/ap_po/louisiana_governor

Answer 11

It's too early to tell. Anyway, it seems like the article picked a bad example, since the Republican LOST.