"It's the same old thing as yesterday"
Put on your old Police CD (I know ya got one) ‘cause it’s time to turn on the Way-Back Machine...set it for 1984, please. [cue sci-fi sound effects: whooop-whooop-whooop...]
Look around...everything’s different. The unemployment rate is 7.5% and Reaganomics has gutted the Midwest. There are soup lines in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The President is a nutcase, starting war after war in Latin America mortgaging the entire country to Japan and the Savings and loan industry.
Good thing it’s an election year! The American People are gonna send his whack-job Gipper-ass home and the Democratic Party is leading the charge...
Shhhh! Time Magazine is discussing their nominee now! Let’s listen in....
"...[Gary] Hart continues to argue that he is more electable against Ronald Reagan in November. A mid-March Gallup poll backed up his claim, showing that Hart would beat Reagan, 49% to 47%, while [Walter] Mondale would lose, 52% to 44%. But last week a new Gallup poll showed Hart's edge diminishing: Mondale continued to trail by the same distance (52 to 44), but Hart was now also behind Reagan (49 to 46).
"Hart's claim that he is more electable is based on his appeal to independents. Mondale partisans counter that their man would be a stronger nominee because he could better turn out the core Democratic constituencies—labor, minorities, the elderly and the poor".
- Time, 4/30/84
Well, it’s America’s lucky day! Those wise and knowledgeable Democratic Insiders know that polls don’t mean anything. They won’t let stupid things like cross-party appeal or "electability" cloud their judgment!
Besides, who cares what a bunch of Independent Voters in the Rockies think? If they had any sense, they’d be Democrats! We can win without them...Reagan is so unpopular that we can run a yellow dog against him be OK...right? Go Mondale! Mondale! Mondale...!
OK, Back to 2008. Turn off "King of Pain" --- don’t you know Sting has gone solo? Besides we’ve got work to do! The President is a nutcase, starting war after war in Asia and mortgaging the entire country to China and the Petroleum Industry.
Good thing it’s an election year! The American People are gonna send these whack-jobs home and the Democratic Party is leading the charge...!
Shhhh! DailyKos is discussing the "Electability" of their possible nominees! They're also debating whether polls mean anything 9 months out from an election and if appeal to Independent Voters matters. Let’s listen in...