Kansas City Star reporter Thomas McClanahan
opines today that Robin Carnahan would be running the perfect campaign, charging opponent Roy Blunt with corruption, if this were 2006, but that this year's election is a referendum on Barack Obama:
If this were 2006, Blunt would be losing badly.
Voters were fed up with the Republican Congress and its chronic scandals and heavy spending.
Carnahan’s portrayal of Blunt as the symbol of all that’s wrong with Washington would have been devastating.
Blunt, the consummate insider, wouldn’t have much to say in reply.
He was the Republican whip, one of Tom Delay’s key lieutenants.
He’s been stuffing earmarks into legislation for years.
Heck, he even married a lobbyist.
Fast forward into the present, and it’s as if we’ve entered a parallel universe with everything reversed, although Carnahan conducts her campaign as if she’s utterly unaware of the turnabout.
She’s running the campaign that would have been unstoppable in 2006, except that it’s 2010 and the Republican Congress is no longer an issue. Republicans haven’t controlled Capitol Hill for four years.
Instead, this election is a referendum on President Obama and the Democratic Congress.
its a Roveism....
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