Michael Moore: Romney will win in November

[SoCalDem]

97. non presidential years are usually the ones when house & senate flip

because so many people turn off politics if there's not a presidential race...The smaller turn outs tend to favor the "throw 'em out" voters.

What was different in '10, was the formation of the teabag brigade starting in late '08 (probably "born" in that We-Hate-Him soiree on Inauguration night)..

They had a year + to firm it up, funding from gazillionaires and the gaga media fawning all over them, so it was NO surprise to me that they stomped us in '10.

From that moment on, EVERY election will be a MAJOR one.

I've said it a million times..

Republicans play the long game.. Decades ago, when dems didn't even bother to proffer a candidate for some races, republicans were running for and winning state house seats, school board seats, judge-ships, council seats..everywhere.. They were the "farm team".. They were becoming "known", and gaining confidence. All those taken-over radio stations in their localities pumped them up and probably helped them in election after election as they climbed the ladder..

Many "graduated" into the hundreds of "think tanks" the right created..they got published---noticed--and once in DC, their next steps were charted for them..

It's a process and the right knows it.. They are willing to play the long game because they know that dems don't usually play it, and many don't even seem to know it exists.

We seem to try to re-invent the wheel with every election, and for righties, they are already planning 2 elections ahead, and have a pocketful of "changes" they plan to ram through the very next time they grab power.

That's precisely why George got us into two wars right away, and stripped the treasury bare with tax cuts & giveaways right away.. You do the big and bold FIRST..

My grandfather always said it was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission..

Dems usually ask permission

Republicans do it, mention asking for forgiveness..don't ever really ask, and then go on as if they WERE forgiven.