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On this week’s Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel: Democratic strategist Rodd McLeod and attorney Jeff Rogers talk about why Democrats got thumped on Election Day, discuss the impact of dark money on the campaigns, examine why turnout was so low in the election and explain what’s likely to happen with the recount in the Barber-McSally race. Watch the show online here or tune in at 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning on KGUN-9.
This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2014.
Simple mid terms is not a good day for the party in white house, its been fairly consistent for a long time! Its just a cycle, elections come and go and so does one parties day in the sun!
Just like Gruber said “their voters are too stupid.”
Obama agenda exposed.
You Kool-Aid drinkers can swear up and down that Obummer is the Man. Truth be told he’ll go down in history as the worst president this country ever had. The people have spoken.
Democrats got thumped on Election Day in Arizona because they are overtly corrupt. They don’t even try to be subtle about it. Take a look at the Pima County Board of Supervisors, the Tucson City Council, and the local school districts that get the most ink. They are all run by Democrats, and they are all run poorly and unethically. Yes, the president is unpopular, but Congress is even more unpopular. Local voters want to elect people who will represent their interests…not the interests of a political machine that is out for itself.
Marty,
“Democrats” are not the problem. You admit this as much in your post when you point out that the least popular wing of government is Congress, controlled by “Republicans”.
The problem is a gerrymandered, 2 party system that offers very little opportunity for effective moderate representation.
I think we are lucky in D2 to have our congressional races be so competitive. We have been represented by moderates for a long time and whoever wins this cycle will also have to be moderate or risk being voted out of office in 2 years. If only the rest of the nation were drawn so competitively.
Is Ally Miller what the Republicans have to offer up in terms of electable leadership on the Pima County Board of Supervisors? Is Michael Hicks as good as it gets from Republicans for the school board? God help us all.
Effective, dynamic leadership is obviously lacking in both parties and you only see the need to blame one of them.
Marty, well Hicks and Miller are levels above the likes of the Grijalvas! Adelita plays to La Raza and Raul to the Mex. cartel (Sinaloan). Both are treasonous POS and should be tarred and feathered and then sent to Mex.
What exactly is it you dislike ? What I said or the fact that it’s the truth.
Arizona voted to get what Arizona always gets: Low taxes, substandard schools, teacher bashing, private prisons, tax breaks for corporations, and water policy that favors big business, if it’s talked about at all. Apparently the residents of Arizona prefer to live in a state that mirrors the third world. And Sylvia Allen is back? That says it all.
Actually CW13, I believe President Obama will come in as a close second for the title of “Worst President in the history of the Republic” to President George W Bush. Bush lied and people died. In all honesty, Bush probably didn’t knowingly lie but the fact is there were no WMD. President Obama is simply an awful chief executive, but “W” was worse on that objective scale. Both of them make Reagan, Bush I and Clinton look really good in comparison.
History will be very kind to Barack Obama, whose achievements in the face of unprecedented obstructionism are remarkable when assessed by a rational observer. After two years of juvenile nihilism in both houses of Congress, American voters will elect a new Democratic president and very possibly restore sane majorities in the legislative branches in 2016. Right now the primary enemies of democracy are the conservatives on the Supreme Court who appear to be bought and paid for by multinational corporations. One must remain optimistic, because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
Roger, a quick civics lesson. For 2 years your president ( not mine ) had a bullet proof majority. If you bothered to stay awake in class you’d know that means that a sitting president’s party also controlled the House and Senate. Yet he got next to nothing done because members of his own party saw him for the socialist that he is and refused to support his insane agenda.