A well-written essay by TNR's William Galston (he's far from being a Conservative writer; but to improve my 'center-right' cred I'll link to him this time) uses 'just the facts, ma'am' to show Democrats exactly where they went wrong.

It's putting numbers to a theme I've been pushing here for years now: the once-proud Democrat Party has been taken over by a far-left sliver of it's ideological base, and The Party of Donkey is now paying for it; because, you see, America the U.S. of A, the Republic that's stood for 234 years, is NOT a Left-Leaning Nation; we can't survive if we are forced by the Left in too far a pendulum swing in that direction. We are center-right, and the ideological purists on the Left dragged us too far in the wrong direction.

Barack Obama might seem to some to some of these far-left critics, the bloggers and pundits and other various assholes (Grayson, Markos 'The Pussy' Moulitsas, the Dust Witch Ariana Huffington) to be drifting towards center from their far-left bastion, but that's just not the case. BHO is adrift in his own vacant lot: he was raised by a Communist father (or fathered by a Communist mentor, take your pick); schooled in the company of (by his own admission) far-left Marxists and radicals and even actual real-death-bomb-throwers, then polished in the Church of Black Liberation Theology by the uber-crazy Jeremiah Wright. BHO is NOT a good man, and should never have been elected as U.S. President. Democrats should've listened to Bill and Hillary; they tried to warn.

So, Mr. Galston's numbers. After putting to bed the tired old excuses 'old people did this to us because we're taking their Medicare!' and 'young people didn't get out and vote like they did before!' and 'the far-left Dem base deserted because Obama didn't do enough!' we get to the REAL REASON: Independents don't like far-left behaviors, and it shows ...

We get more significant results when we examine the choices Independents made. Although their share of the electorate was virtually unchanged from 2006, their behavior was very different. In 2006, Democrats received 57 percent of the Independent vote, versus only 39 percent for Republicans. In 2010 this margin was reversed: 55 percent Republican, 39 percent Democratic. If Independents had split their vote between the parties this year the way they did in 2006, the Republicans share would have been 4.7 percent lower—a huge difference.

But why did they change? Here we reach the nub of the matter: The ideological composition of the electorate shifted dramatically. In 2006, those who voted were 32 percent conservative, 47 percent moderate, and 20 percent liberal. In 2010, by contrast, conservatives had risen to 41 percent of the total and moderates declined to 39 percent, while liberals remained constant at 20 percent. And because, in today’s polarized politics, liberals vote almost exclusively for Democrats and conservatives for Republicans, the ideological shift matters a lot.

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So the 2010 electorate does not represent a disproportional mobilization of conservatives: If the 2010 electorate had perfectly reflected the voting-age population, it would actually have been a bit more conservative and less moderate than was the population that showed up at the polls. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

So, it's clearly spelled out in the numbers. Change, Democrats, drop the far-left idiots who've destroyed your party's credibility. Send 'em packing, come back home, enjoy a NASCAR event, eat a hot dog instead of arugula, and lay off the memes for a change.

It'll do you a world of good, and the nation, too.

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For your election night viewing pleasure.

I iz Obama and u can not has promises I maek in 2008.

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h/t Mike LaRoche in comments

A fantastic read by Dr. Jack Wheeler

Tomorrow's election is a referendum on Barack Hussein Obama's policies, an up-or-down moratorium on all of today's Democrat's mostly far-left leanings. We'll have much higher turnout in this midterm election than even the 2006 campaign that gave Democrats control of House and Senate. That election's turnout was driven by Soros-monied hate against one man, George Bush, whom the Left still loves to hate; and against Bush's laser-like focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, we still have the same wars, but the left isn't paying much attention to them anymore: their new playing card is the RACE card, overplayed just as we predicted, but evident in the MoveOn and Organizing for America ads aimed primarily at Blacks and Latinos, promising to them more of what is simply moocher-monies and social entitlements.

What's this election's outcome to tell us? Either that the anger and enthusiasm driving those of us on the Right, ignited by the Tea Party-inspired races and candidates, is a force that needs to be listened to, or that the Community Organizing skills of the neo- and Far-Left Democrats are still ascendant in this nation, and that their looter-purchased moocher votes are still the new and best way to elect pandering politicians of the cowardly stripe.

Either way, the Right wins the House tomorrow night: the vibrant Tea Party Right. I don't think we'll take the Senate, this time. Even if we do, I don't think we'll be able to turn around the damage BHO and his coalition of lefties has already implemented, including but not limited to ObamaCare. We just won't have the cojones to defund the entire Obama agenda, the various fascist departments and agencies these Democrats rely on to insidiously control every facet of our lives. We just won't have enough political capital, and we face a determined group of Democrat-exploited expectant moochers who, well, expect that Statist Government as implemented by the majority of politicians will give them what they need to live on. Why should any of 'em try harder?

I've little faith in what the majority of America's citizenry holds dear to it's collectivist political heart. There's no moral basis for individual character anymore; we've cheapened our nation's people with too-easy access to things material.

It'll take more than even a decisive victory tomorrow to CHANGE this nation to one that'll be sustainable, economically or morally. As it is, we are not sustainable on either front, and the question going forward: are we even worth sustaining?

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Who can forget this, BHO's most dramatic proclamation, made prior to the election in 2008?

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. This was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last best hope on EARTH!"

Seems so blatantly false and cheesy now, doesn't it?

Sharron Angle welcomed Barack Hussein Obama to Nevada with this ad just a couple days ago. BHO is on hand to try to save Harry Reid from his fate, from an ignominious electoral defeat both for him and for his President.

Let's hope BHO fails, yet again.

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...which is good news for the Republic.

According to the Contra Costa Times, NYT writers Michael Luo and Jeff Zeleny posit that George Soros and other wealthy Democrat Donors are pulling the cash they usually give to candidates in favor of special interest groups...

Democratic donors like George Soros and fellow billionaire Peter Lewis, who each gave more than $20 million to Democratic-oriented groups in the 2004 election, appear to be holding back.

"Mr. Soros believes that he can be most effective by funding groups that promote progressive policy outcomes in areas such as health care, the environment and foreign policy," said an adviser, Michael Vachon. "So he has opted to fund those activities."

Twisting in the wind, these awful "D" congresscritters who've done so much damage with their ObamaCare, TARP bailouts and other overtly socialist programs.

Not that Soros is relinquishing his hold on the Democrat Party. Who else would promote his overarching lefty goals? These special interest groups he's funding will eventually funnel the money to selected Democrat politicians anyway; what Soros is doing is eliminating the higher-level Democrat Party operatives and controllers from the feeding loop. He must be annoyed at Obama's targeting of the far-left activists, and wants him to see exactly who controls the purse.

President or no, Obama, you must realize that Soros is your master.

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Oh, and this...

Businesses Step Up Political Ads

From eye doctors to real estate agents, businesses are funding millions of dollars of campaign advertisements and mailings to help candidates, mostly Republicans, win this fall.

A good thing, and a sign of just how desperate businesses are, spending hard-earned monies to help ensure a better future for our business community.

Otherwise, and know that this is how it’s gonna be for as long as the far-left controls the once-proud Democrat Party: Who is John Galt ?

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