Comments on: Predictions in Politics http://hillbillypolitics.com/2008/01/08/predictions-in-politics/ Just Down to Earth Politcal Discussions in Plain English for the "Rest of Us." Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:21:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hillbilly http://hillbillypolitics.com/2008/01/08/predictions-in-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-2898 hillbilly Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:14:14 +0000 http://hillbillypolitics.com/?p=298#comment-2898 Uh... who? j/k Yeah, we gotta keep trying. That's for sure but sometimes, you just get discouraged with the whole thing, you know? Uh… who? j/k

Yeah, we gotta keep trying. That’s for sure but sometimes, you just get discouraged with the whole thing, you know?

]]> By: BB-Idaho http://hillbillypolitics.com/2008/01/08/predictions-in-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-2896 BB-Idaho Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:32:19 +0000 http://hillbillypolitics.com/?p=298#comment-2896 The pundits cannot predict because we don't know what we want..one sounds good one day, another the next. Since I know as little about it as the next pundit, and for what it's worth, the mini-surge for Huckabee, the abandonment of Hillary for Obama and the weird movement of many voters into 'independent' status smacks of early 20th century populism (See Robert La Follette)..eg enough of big: big government, big corporations, big foreign aid, big special interests.. You know, the 'big' that affects everything from national debt to jobs going overseas. Interesting as populism is, it does not have the clout of the 'bigs', and I suspect we will continue dissatisfied, whatever the outcome. Gotta keep trying though...my father gave up voting after Estes Kevauver lost the nomination in 1952! The pundits cannot predict because we don’t know what we want..one sounds good one day, another the next. Since I know as little about it as the next pundit,
and for what it’s worth, the mini-surge for Huckabee,
the abandonment of Hillary for Obama and the weird
movement of many voters into ‘independent’ status smacks of early 20th century populism (See Robert La Follette)..eg enough of big: big government, big corporations, big foreign aid, big special interests.. You know, the ‘big’ that affects everything from national debt to jobs going overseas. Interesting as populism is, it does not have the clout of the ‘bigs’, and I suspect we will continue dissatisfied, whatever the outcome.
Gotta keep trying though…my father gave up voting after Estes Kevauver lost the nomination in 1952!

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