@SI: You’re the voter I’m worried about. I don’t know which liberals and conservatives are both making fun of you (socially or in the media or on blogs?) but they both seem to agree that you helped elect Bill Clinton. Instead of lashing out, maybe you should react like the other perot people writing above and take what lessons you can from the experience. You say you also voted for President Bush, and President Obama. I’m assuming that you regret one or both of those votes. And who are you voting for for lesser offices? Are you voting in the primaries? That’s how you shape what Republican and Democrat means. Are you voting for a face on TV or the underlying political philosophies that CNN desperately avoids reporting on?

We’ve all been suckers at one point or another. Did anyone expect Mark Sanford to melt down like he did? Or, if you’re a democrat, what about “Mr. Clean” aka Gov Spitzer? Did even President Obama’s opponents expect him to govern this far left, this fast, and with this many corruption scandals? Let alone his supporters.

We all have something to learn, we all make mistakes. If you learn from them, take your lumps and try to be smarter next time, then you’re on the right track. If you lash out and turn bitter because of your own lapses in judgement, then you’re on the wrong track. Plain and simple.

I think that’s why no single conservative has emerged as a leader of the opposition to the current reckless spending by Obama and Congress. It’s insane that theological differences should divide us but that’s what Huckabee is determined to do by playing populist/progressive views against Romney. Romney, on the other hand, doesn’t exactly have a clean record on health care reform having compromised with liberals in MA to try to contain costs. McCain, Thompson, Giuliani are all out as viable candidates, let alone leaders.

Who will be able to bring us together and lead a strong movement against the crazies who now control Congress and the White House. Pawlenty? Maybe. Certainly not Huckabee, who is a warmed over Jimmy Carter/Bill Clinton opportunist without the warmth. Romney is capable, but also lacks personal warmth.

I’m looking. There are several governors and congress persons who seem good, but I would have thought Mark Sanford was one of those just months ago.

I cried when Clinton won, but I do not for a second regret my Perot vote because without his willingness to educate I wonder how many more years would have gone by before I became policitally aware. ( It would be interesting now to go back and listen to the Perot speeches and see what I think of them in light of all the knowledge I have gained over the intervening years.)

I agree with your premise that those people who are at the same place the UNITED WE STAND group were back then might have a big impact in 2010. But they will need someone who is willling to educate them, speak to them and put in the full force of time and money toward an effort they already believe in but don’t understand enough about to support a particular canidate.

and all I can say is: “you can all go f*** yourselves!”

Right now polling and focus groups put things close between Dems and Reps. It only takes a few percent of the “swing” voters to win in these conditions.

Yes Perot was a spoiler that year who got Clinton elected. But you are all assuming another such candidate will be found – I think voters are a lot less likely to be drawn off to a third party remembering that experience, or else Ron Paul would have had a better turn than he did. The main point of the article stands, that many such voters are interested now in candidates that exhibit fiscal prudence and the lockstep nature of the candidates from the states in question leaves a lot of them very vulnerable, even if someone attempts to fund a spoiler candidate. You can’t just “create” a Perot out of thin air and have him be believable or have any effect.

A populist, libertarian-leaning candidate. A veteran would be welcome, too.

Ross Perot was a false flag presidential candidate, when Bill Clinton was running against Bush Sr and later Dole.

Dean Barkley was a false flag senatorial candidate when Al Franken was running against Minnesota Senator Coleman.

I have no doubt that Team Obama will find and promote a false flag presidential candidate in 2012. I predict Huckabee will be the 2012 false flag candidate.

Your post is mostly about voting patterns, which I don’t know much about, but it is interesting non-the-less.

I did notice that you made a mistake in the first paragraph, where you call California, Oregon etc. “Red” states. I think you mean “Blue” states in the current usage of color/ideology.

OT, it is interesting that “Red” means conservative, when it used to mean communist. I can’t tell why communist was “Red” in the first place. I bet there is a story there somewhere.

James

We have the same dynamic this time, only difference is Obama hasn’t the wit to back down. He’s going to press on, the Republicans will take the House and many Senate seats in 2010. THe only question is whether the Republicans can seize the opportunity. They can run a fiscal conservative sane person (e.g. Romney) and win big, or they can stick with the Christian issues and lose.