Can The 'Pledge To America' Energize Republican Voters?

Politics Daily:

Even the "Contract with America" had limited vote-getting potency. Despite the way that shaky historical memory has created after-the-fact causation between the Contract and the 1994 GOP House takeover, the evidence suggests that the document was an after-thought for voters. A national poll conducted in late October found that only 29 percent of registered voters had even heard of the "Contract with America."

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Comments

[mcmutter]

08:22 AM on 09/27/2010

REPUBLICAN AGENDA

1) tax cuts for the super-rich and MORE BORROWING
2) less regulation for business .... fewer legal rights for you
3)corporate welfare for the defense industry

[whyus]

02:07 AM on 09/27/2010

No, it's not going to energize anybody. Just get out there , people, and vote a straight Democratic ticket. It's our only option. I don't want to see the Bush/Cheney years back for another run, and that's what we'll get with these mean, greedy Republicans back in control.

[dessertsfirst]

11:16 PM on 09/26/2010

Well, I remember the Contract w/ America, and it was a joke, a huge disappointment that THAT was the only thing the rethugs came up w/ (complements of Newtie Gingrich) for the whole term. The rethugs were down right giddy. They had both the white house and the majority for the first time in a good many years. And they did absolutely squat w/ their power... they had it and they sat on it gloating. Sort of like Nero fiddling while Rome was burning. And they totally ignored "we the people".
The pledge to America provides little substance... again, it is a smoke screen to make it look as if the rethugs were "listening to the people speak". All show, and not much truth to it. They don't know the meeting of truth.

[whatchamean]

11:15 PM on 09/26/2010

They need a 2010 version of Newt to deliver the message. The don't have anyone. Boner (the Dean Martin of politics) Isn't it.

[Factmuenster]

08:57 PM on 09/26/2010

God Bless America! The greatest country on earth!

[mcmutter]

08:06 PM on 09/26/2010

Same old GOP cr./ap in a different wrapper .....

[mummblemouth]

07:41 PM on 09/26/2010

So who's stpd enough to believe these cons when they've already broken every contract and pledge they've ever made, and are even currently railing against that ultimate American pledge - the Constitution?

[archdragon2002]

06:46 PM on 09/26/2010

This thing is a joke plain and simple!

[leeman79]

05:07 PM on 09/26/2010

Page 1 - Tax amnesty for the wealthy.
Page 2 - Eliminate all remaining New Deal programs.
Page 3 - Flat world and fairytale re-indoctrination.
Remaining Pages - See pages 1 through 3.

[Clint Abear]

04:56 PM on 09/26/2010

nope! the Dems will win again !

[Nel Pineda]

02:13 PM on 09/26/2010

Are the Rethugs selling toilet paper again?

[dessertsfirst]

11:17 PM on 09/26/2010

... they're hoping it is wall paper!!

[gumbo1049]

09:30 AM on 09/26/2010

SAME CRAP DIFFERENT DAY.

[Hagenj]

02:41 AM on 09/26/2010

As a proud tea partier, the answer is no.

We dislike the repubs almost as badly as we dislike the dims. Almost. The GOP pledge wont get my vote. It wont send me over to the otherside either.

Vote both parties out!

[Intolerantcentrist]

11:46 AM on 09/26/2010

I’m with you; until the part about the Tea Party.

Fanned for your understanding!

[archdragon2002]

06:48 PM on 09/26/2010

Get rid of that Radical Right Wing Nut Job Part of the Tea Party.......And I'm in!

[Silent Edge]

02:37 AM on 09/26/2010

It's funny how the document looks like it takes style cues from Obama's campaign stuff. I guess we couldn't even count on Republicans to be original in that category, either.

[larmarch5]

12:37 AM on 09/26/2010

Somewhere in a duck blind, someone is glad for the paper.