Democrat stategies are backfiring and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.

We have documented stories, of late, that present Obama as one who has decided to be even more aggressive as a "President" and increasingly confrontational versus his opposition. Will it work as an election strategy? Perhaps this review of the most recent Gallup poll will help put things into perspective:

Now Gallup has released some new numbers that shed a bit of light on this:

Regardless of whether you favored or opposed the health care legislation passed this week, do you think the methods the Democratic leaders in Congress used to get enough votes to pass this legislation — were [they] an abuse of power, or were [they] an appropriate use of power by the party that controls the majority in Congress?

Abuse of power 53%

Appropriate use of power 40%

No opinion 7%

A surprising 58% of independents, too, said Dem tactics constituted an abuse of power.

Moral of the story: Message discipline works. The concerted effort by Republicans to paint the Dem move as an unprecedented abuse of power may not have stopped the bill from passing. But it seems to have persuaded a majority that there was something seriously wrong headed about what Dems did to get reform passed.

We are convinced that Obama's internal polling numbers show a worse picture regarding the mid-term elections than anything we read. Obama is "in the tank" and his response is to be more confrontational, more radical, more partisan and more of the jerk. Will this strategy work? Depends on the desired results. Midknight Review thinks Obama's strategy is working just fine !!! --- jds
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