Thursday, June 17, 2010

Barone: GOP Ahead in Big States

Political analyst Michael Barone, writing for The Washington Examiner and RealClearPolitics, does the math and finds Republicans ahead in many large states where Democrats normally win. This might be the year we cut the legs out from under public employee unions.

For example he says it looks like a Republican could win in high-unemployment Michigan:
That's pretty good proof that in times of economic distress voters don't want to keep feeding the government beast, but believe it needs to cinch the belt a little tighter, as most Americans have been doing.
Meanwhile he observes the same trend overseas:
Parties of the left have been getting shellacked all over Europe, most recently in Britain.