The GOP's storyline is like the smelly sock you find under the bed that you forgot to wash.
Here are the numbers from Hawaii's special election yesterday....
Djou received 67,610 votes, or 39.4 percent. He was trailed by state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, a Democrat who received 52,802 votes, or 30.8 percent. The other leading Democrat, former U.S. Rep. Ed Case, received 47,391 votes, or 27.6 percent.
Hmmmmm....
Referring to my 5th grade math skills if I do the math
52,802+47,391= 100,193 votes/ registered voters cast for the Democrats
(I'm sorry to belabor my Kos friends with this but I have to break it into simple terms for the Media and our narrow minded friends on the right)
You take 100,193 and subtract (or take away from for our GOP friends) 67,610 from that number that equals (or leaves you with) 35,583 voters the GOP has to come up with in November of 2010 when Djou has to run again against one Democrat.....
But the story helps (if you only read right wing news sites and listen to AM radio) to sculpt the narrative that Americans are fed up with the Democrats and will vote Republicans into office in November.
This was supposed to be their storyline in Pennsylvania last week...
The lazy media didn't even have to work hard to push this story out. They simply cut and pasted the Pennsylvania's special election headlines they had stored away on their hard drive (where the GOP with their Rasmussen skewed and bias polling predicted a takeover in a Republican leaning district) never resonated and put this piece of slanted journalistic garbage out to assist the corporate controlled media and GOP storyline.
In Pennsylvania (John Murtha's old district) the right wing machine dumped millions to take that seat away from the Democrats but came up considerably short 53 to 45 percent and mere voter turnout clobbered the right wing machine and the tea party.
I do expect losses in November but I'm giving the GOP less than a 50% chance of taking over anything in November. It should make up for a more interesting storyline come 2012.
It's just "fuzzy math" the country is still divided and if the Tea Party thinks we won't turn out in November, I tell them the numbers speak for themselves. My turnout vote (along with the circle of Democratic friends I have) will be to vote against the "Tea Party" movement and their hateful and tasteless agenda.
I couldn't imagine having a "Rand Paul" or "Sarah Palin" in the White House. It sends chills down my spine.