Il vento stà cambiando..repubblicani americani in crisi

[Samuel]

Bloomberg 'vince' New York
E' sindaco per la seconda volta



New York, 9 novembre 2005 - Il repubblicano e magnate dei media Michael Bloomberg è stato riconfermato sindaco di New York, sconfiggendo il candidato democratico Fernando Ferrer con il 59% delle preferenze contro il 39% dei consensi raccolti dal rivale.

Lo riferisce la commissione elettorale comunicando i dati preliminari definitivi. E' stato quindi rieletto con un largo margine.




Gli esperti stimano che Bloomberg abbia speso tra ottanta e cento milioni delle sue personali fortune per sconfiggere il candidato democratico.

[Paracelso]

Il pollismo è veramente una malattia letale, altro che H5N1.

Che Bloomberg avrebbe vinto a New York lo si sapeva da mesi.
Quello che non si sapeva da mesi invece, era che i Democratici si sarebbero presi la Virginia e che i referendum dell'anabolizzato Schwarzy sarebbero stati sonoramente trombati.

[mike51]

Quanto spendera' il NANO per cercare di limitare la sconfitta?

[BOY74]

Io ci andrei molto cauto...negli USA ogni elezione fa storia a sè,gli americani decidono di volta in volta e non a ondate,ad esempio molto spesso hanno eletto un presidente di un partito e contemporaneamente dato la maggioranza al congresso al partito opposto,quindi, benchè non stimi per nulla Bush non userei toni troppo entusiasti, sono solamente elezioni locali.

[Ezechiele (POL)]

In Origine Postato da Samuel
Bloomberg 'vince' New York
E' sindaco per la seconda volta



New York, 9 novembre 2005 - Il repubblicano e magnate dei media Michael Bloomberg è stato riconfermato sindaco di New York, sconfiggendo il candidato democratico Fernando Ferrer con il 59% delle preferenze contro il 39% dei consensi raccolti dal rivale.

Lo riferisce la commissione elettorale comunicando i dati preliminari definitivi. E' stato quindi rieletto con un largo margine.




Gli esperti stimano che Bloomberg abbia speso tra ottanta e cento milioni delle sue personali fortune per sconfiggere il candidato democratico.

Samuel, puoi dire il cazzo che vuoi, questa è la CNN, non la Pravda come vorresti che fosse:

Good day for Democrats

Democrats kept their grip on the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey in Tuesday's elections, while New York City's Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg, easily won a second term in the Democratic-dominated Big Apple. In California, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came up short on all four ballot initiatives he had supported.

CNN.com

[Amati75]

In Origine Postato da Paracelso
Il pollismo è veramente una malattia letale, altro che H5N1.

Che Bloomberg avrebbe vinto a New York lo si sapeva da mesi.
Quello che non si sapeva da mesi invece, era che i Democratici si sarebbero presi la Virginia e che i referendum dell'anabolizzato Schwarzy sarebbero stati sonoramente trombati.

"..Quello che non si sapeva da mesi invece, era che i Democratici si sarebbero presi la Virginia.."

Ma se la Virginia era gia' guida Democratica.

[Iannis]

In Origine Postato da BOY74
Io ci andrei molto cauto...negli USA ogni elezione fa storia a sè,gli americani decidono di volta in volta e non a ondate,ad esempio molto spesso hanno eletto un presidente di un partito e contemporaneamente dato la maggioranza al congresso al partito opposto,quindi, benchè non stimi per nulla Bush non userei toni troppo entusiasti, sono solamente elezioni locali.

E' vero, lì non c'è l'ideologia che c'è qui, capita anche che deputati democratici appoggino un candidato alla presidenza democratico e non vengono espulsi e viceversa, e in un collegio del Congresso un democratico vince col 60% e lo stesso giorno il presidente repubblicano ottiene lì il 60%.

[benfy]

bloomberg è un ex democratico

[Iannis]

V eramente i democatici non hanno guadagnato nessun nuovo governatore o senatore. Hanno ocnfermato, perdendo voti, quelli che già avevano. Tra l'altro nel New Jersey i repubblicani hano preso la maggior parte dei seggi dell'assemblea.

[Metapapero]

In Origine Postato da iannis
V eramente i democatici non hanno guadagnato nessun nuovo governatore o senatore. Hanno ocnfermato, perdendo voti, quelli che già avevano. Tra l'altro nel New Jersey i repubblicani hano preso la maggior parte dei seggi dell'assemblea.

Apprendiamo con piacere che iannis, fine conoscitore della politica americana e' in disaccordo con quei comunisti del Wall Street Journal (oltre che con quegli anarco insurrezionalisti che albergano in Atlanta nel palazzo dell CNN)




GOP Wake-Up Call
November 10, 2005; Page A16

About the best thing Republicans can say after Tuesday's election debacle is that at least it happened in an off-off year. This was a Democratic rout any way you look at it, from the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey to the ballot initiatives in California. If the GOP learns the wrong lessons, it'll happen again next year, when a lot more will be at stake.

The press corps and Democrats will play up President Bush's drag on the party, and his low approval rating certainly didn't help. On the other hand, the one notable Republican who did win, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, owes more to Mr. Bush than he or anyone else will admit. The 2003 tax cuts helped to revive financial markets and thus the city's economy and revenue coffers, allowing him to rebate some of his earlier and unpopular tax increase. Mr. Bloomberg also benefited from his laudable attempt to reform education in the face of union opposition.

In Virginia, Democrat Tim Kaine's defeat of Republican Jerry Kilgore shows what happens when the GOP loses credibility on taxes. Virginia is a state that Mr. Bush twice carried comfortably. But the GOP divided over Democratic Governor Mark Warner's record tax increase last year, and Mr. Kilgore never said he'd repeal it. He tried to straddle the difference between business lobbies who liked more money for roads and the rank-and-file who hated giving more to the government. The result was that there was little real difference between the candidates on fiscal issues -- and Republicans lose those campaigns nearly every time.

Mr. Kilgore ran instead on the death penalty and especially immigration, which ought to be a warning to Republicans in Congress who think getting tough on the border is the key to victory in 2006. At times Mr. Kilgore seemed to be running for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Commissioner, not Governor. But immigration is an issue, like trade, that always looks better in the polls than it does on election day; very few people vote because of it.

To his credit, Mr. Kaine also avoided the common Democratic mistake of condescending to culturally conservative voters. His personal opposition to capital punishment (and abortion) is on religious grounds, and Mr. Kaine said he would nevertheless uphold state law if elected. Mr. Kilgore's nonstop death-penalty demagoguery might have backfired with social conservatives who saw a man being attacked for his religious beliefs. But the broader point is that Republicans who think they can count on Democrats to nominate cultural kamikazes like Howard Dean are fooling themselves.

To no one's real surprise, Democratic Senator Jon Corzine will be the next governor of New Jersey. The disgraced former governor, James McGreevey, greased the wheels for fellow Dems by timing his resignation last year to prevent voters from picking a replacement right away.

Even so, Republican businessman Doug Forrester's defeat this week shows that the Jersey GOP is as weak as advertised. Despite corruption and the highest property taxes in the nation, Mr. Forrester still couldn't prevail. He didn't help his cause by using Mr. Corzine's embittered former wife in a last-minute TV ad on "family values." Like Mr. Kilgore in Virginia, he'd have been better off talking more about property taxes, which polls show rank highest by far among voter concerns.

As for California, voters handed the permanent political class in Sacramento a big victory by voting down four good-government referendums -- on teacher tenure, state spending, redistricting reform and limits on how unions could spend member dues. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger backed all four of the measures, and the "paycheck protection" loss was especially regrettable because public employee unions won't need permission from members to spend dues money on political activities. The redistricting defeat (and a similar one in Ohio) also entrenches political incumbents, who will continue to pick their voters rather than vice versa. Reformers are going to have to think about other ways to make the political class more accountable.

For Arnold, the loss was as much personal as ideological. He picked this fight in the wrong year, and the unions used an advertising-media assault to demonize him. His causes did worse the more he was associated with them.

We wouldn't count him out for re-election next year, however, since voters may think twice before handing Sacramento back to the same politicos who brought on the 2003 fiscal and energy crises. At least no one can say Mr. Schwarzenegger coasted on the sky-high approval ratings he enjoyed after being elected. Instead, he spent his political capital (and even $7 million of his own capital) trying to lead, and voters may decide they like that next year as well.

All in all, after several bad years, Tuesday was the Democrats' turn to smile. And if Republicans in Congress now start to splinter and look out only for themselves -- instead of fighting for the ideas that won them power -- the same could happen next year.

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