Obama is All They Got

What explains the continued Democratic dominance?

Their headliners are grotesque freaks: (Pelosi, Frank, Kucinich), angry jackasses (James Webb, Al Franzen), criminals (Rangel, Balgojevich, Jefferson) or grumpy anonymi (Harry Reid, Carl Levin)

The states and cities they control are putrid sinkholes of corruption and economic collapse: California, Detroit, New York , DC

So what explains the Democrats' success?

President Barack Obama. He's all they got. If the bloom falls off that handsome, teleprompter-articulate rose, they're done, which explains why the press is straining so hard for him against the forces of reality.

Jay Cost at RCP, commenting about the Democratic-Republican self-identification polls (GOP fortunes are improving), explains that the disinterested non-voter skews the numbers towards the Dems:

So, the little information non-voters acquire about politics has thus been quite partial to the Democratic party in recent months. Combine this with their their lack of strong feelings about many political subjects - then toss in the GOP's inability to control the agenda in Washington - and this could take us a long way to explaining the drop-off for the GOP among non-voters in some previous surveys.

Meanwhile, as the new car smell of Obama's presidency has faded, perhaps those otherwise inclined to the GOP have returned to calling themselves Republican (although I'd note that the recent Fox poll, of registered voters, shows no change from the previous one).

The Dems control the agenda, which bad for America, but will eventually be good politically for the GOP. There is still a wellspring of goodwill for the new president, but it won't last forever.

Bush's spending spree is pocket change compared to the money Obama and the Pelosicrats have blown. At least President Bush spent our money on worthy pursuits like rounding up bad guys. The Dems are chasing windmills. And when voters realize they are in joint ownership of the auto industry with the UAW, while bailing out gilt-edged union pension funds to the tune of hundreds of billions, they may begin to view our president and his political syndicate in a whole new light.

The Democrats will go too far; they always do. When the President's poll numbers fall to mere mortal levels, they're done. Because Barack Obama is all they got.

RCP -Jay Cost