In Indiana’s 9th District, lawmakers change and only the anger endures

[alp227]

Meet the people of Indiana’s 9th Congressional District. If you want to blame somebody for what Washington has become, blame them.

In the past decade, as mounting voter disaffection created an angry cycle of “wave elections” in American politics, nobody rode the waves harder than the people of the district south of Indianapolis.

They sent a Democrat to Congress. Then a Republican. Then a Democrat. Then a Republican again. All in very quick succcession.

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In 2004, as President George W. Bush won reelection, a Republican unseated Hamilton’s successor, Rep. Baron P. Hill (D). Then, in 2006, Hill took the seat back, as Democrats used a backlash against Bush to retake Congress.

Then, during the tea party wave last fall, the 9th District kicked out Hill once again. Voters replaced him with a square-jawed ex-Marine, Rep. Todd C. Young (R).

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-indianas-9th-district-lawmakers-change-and-only-the-anger-endures/2011/10/19/gIQAPG5UgM_singlePage.html

[zalinda]

1. It's what I've been saying all along

When the public is angry, they keep 'throwing the bums out'. No one is safe in 2012, not anyone. It may just be the first time that a 3rd party would make huge inroads into the political system, since both dems and repubs aren't doing their jobs.

zalinda

[zbdent]

2. true ... but the 'throwing the bums out' mantra

has not had the push at this time that it had in 2010 ... with Dem majorities in both the House and Senate, it was a "rallying cry" pushed by appearances in the "liberally-biased media" ...

how many of these appearances will you likely see in the 2012 House election cycle? Quite likely you won't see that mantra in play ...