Off the top of my head. Looking at some polling numbers that have Repub Voters ranking their "Leaders" for 2012 (Romney-14%, Palin-11%, McCain-7%, Brown-4%), and wondering if it means anything. Here's what I came up with:
The first thing that popped into my brain was, how the hell did Scott Brown get in there!?! But then, I remembered the narrative built up around their successes in special elections - Governors in VA & NJ, and then the race for Teddy's Senate seat. The repubs were all running around trying to convince us that they were "sweeping towards a Republican resurgence of epic proportion!". Remember that? Now, kinda outa the blue, we get Repub Voters tagging Scott Brown as a major force? I'm thinking the whole 'resurgence' is hollow. There's a feeling of wishful thinking about it - like they really don't have anything but the rhetoric to hold onto - hoping against hope that somebody will ride in and rescue them from the evil clutches of the Democrats.
The danger - if I'm right - is that the Dems will actually wake up, find their balls, and start acting like a ruling party instead of the public servants they're supposed to be. But then, that's usually how it works, so I shouldn't be too surprised.
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