Vote Anti Incumbent

I just watched Senator Chambliss of GA on CNN’s State of the Union program.   When asked if we should now take up Financial Reform, Senator Chambliss thinks now is not the time.  Seems we might  hurt business and besides we shouldn’t increase the size of government.  He doesn’t like regulations.   Then Ms. Crowley asked Senator Chambliss isn’t he afraid the public will view the Republicans as friends of Wall Street and against Main Street?.  Chambliss says of coarse not.

It is obvious Senator Chambliss is interested in protecting Wall Street and doing everything in his power to delay taking up financial reform.   Even everyday citizens know what fraud has and is occuring on Wall Street.   I was talking about how underhandled Goldman Sachs is for years.  Then you heard on the nightly news, this just out, now we learn Goldman Sachs may have been invoived in fraud and scamming investors.  Really?

Senator Chambliss is the same guy who denied we were in a recession, well after everyday citizens knew it and we hurting very badly.  He just said “define recession” and acted like he didn’t have the foggist idea that we were in a meltdown until well after the fact.

It is time for Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia to be replaced.  Being a citizens of Georgia myself, I will support his opponent.  We can’t afford to have Chambliss around for another term.

Barron’s magazine it their twice a year poll of big money mangers asks “Do you expect the Republicans to recapture control of the Senate, House of Representatives, both or neither in the November 2010 mid-term elections?

The big money managers polled replied “Neither” as the mostly likely.  Only 14% think the Republicans would recapture the Senate and only 26% think the Republicans will recapture the House.

However looking further down the line, when asked “Do you expect President Barack Obama to win re-election in November 2012, only 35% replied Yes, and 65% replied No.

The final question of Politics was “Who will be the Republican candidate for November 2012?  Mitt Romney is the choice of35%, Sarah Palin on 5%, and Mitch Daniels 4%.

This is interesting poll results from the big money managers.   I don’t know if they have a good track record in political predictions or not, but I know a lot of money is riding of the politics and they seems to know their money.  Article.

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Alan Abramowitz, a political scientiest at Emory University makes the point that congress is very unpopular, even more so than President Obama whose approval rating has dropped, but still hoovers around 50%.  But in December only 5% of Americans approved the job that Congress was doing. That was still better than the 19% approval for the previous Congress.

He goes on to say the Congress is usually less popular than the president and frequently much less popular.
He continues: Discontent with Congress appears to reflect a widespread perception of the legislative process as complicated, inefficient, and corrupt. Americans find it hard to understand how Congress works and most of the information that they get about Congress from the media tends to be negative—focusing on partisan conflict, controversies, and scandals. But voters don’t blame their own Senators or their own Representative for these problems.

Therein lies the problem of why don’t we vote out incumbents if we don’t approve of the job they are doing.  We don’t like your Senator but we still vote for our Senator who represents us.  We are right you are wrong.

They tend to see their own Senators and Representatives as the rare good apples in an otherwise rotten barrel. Maybe that is because they reflect the views of the population in your area.

That explains why, despite the low ratings that Congress usually receives, reelection rates for congressional incumbents have remained very high—averaging around 95% for House incumbents and 80% for Senate incumbents over the past three decades.

Read more of Mr Alan I. Abramowitz article.