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Election night 2005 - Brits, what's the score?
ChadTower:
So they hate him so much they couldn't be bothered to vote against him. Nice.
JCL:
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Please show me where the some big media predicted a Blair loss. They all predicted a win with a much smaller majority. And that is what happened! How can you possibly call that a lie?
You have a very low standard of the word lie for the people you don't like, apparently.
And unbiased media is a recent idea that was never a reality.
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The 'lies' I'm referring to are over the past two years, not the past two weeks.
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ChadTower:
Nyeh, they're out there, but I don't have enough time to search. I concede.
Dexter:
It wasn't that Blair was liked, it was more that Howard was liked LESS. From the word go he was seen as unelectable and thats what happened.
Blairs re-election is not a thumbs up for his foreign or domestic policies, he was the leader of labour, and people couldn't stomach the idea of the conservaties led by Howard being in Power. Thats why blairs back.
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: fredster on May 06, 2005, 09:29:45 am ---Bush and Howard and Blair WIN
Just more proof of how mariginalized the opposition is.
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Fredster,
What are you talking about? Your mundane triumphalism makes no sense. Maybe it would if we were talking about pee-wee league baseball, instead of politics. Which opposition are you talking about exactly? The opposition to the Conservatives in Britain? (Since they lost the election) Opposition to Blair? His "Party" is popular, not him. In Britain you are basically voting for a party, who then appoints a "head" (ie: Prime Minister) [link]. Given the dismal results the majority Labour party has faced, with a significant loss of seats, it's possible they will appoint a new PM (Brown?).
So, then, are you talking about opposition to Bush?
Bush's job approval rating is the lowest in U.S. history for a two-term president (48.3%). A majority of the American public now disapproves of how Bush's Republican run Congress is running things (55.3%). His pinnacle second-term issue, Social Security Privatization, has been roundly rejected by a vast majority of the American public [figure 1], as well as a significant majority of Congress. A majority of people (54%) disapprove of the way President George W. Bush is handling the situation in Iraq.
Couple that with the "Kick in the Ballots" suffered by Blair in yesterdays UK election and you'd see that your statement really doesn't make much sense.
In other words, marginalized my @ss. It just simply isn't over when your guy "wins." You, my friend, are the minority now. You, it seems, have been marginalized.
mrC