Sorry for the light posting, I’ve been working some insane hours lately. Which, ironically, brings me to this post.

I work in Ottumwa, Iowa, which is a heavily Democrat area, and has been since before I was born. It’s rare that the people here vote Republican for anything, basically.

Anyway, I deal with the public quite a bit and I get to chit-chat with them now and then and what I’ve begun to see is an actual backlash against the Democrats. People who are, self-admittedly, hard-boiled Democrats are getting fed up. They don’t like the spending, they don’t like this health care business, and they don’t like where Obama and his cohorts are leading us.

These aren’t a handful of people I’ve talked to, either. We’re not talking about a couple of people here and a few people there, we’re talking hundreds of them over the past few weeks. Almost every single one of them are upset and disgruntled. And they aren’t pulling any punches, either.

I’ve heard a few of them say they should have backed Hillary, but then they state that she probably wouldn’t have been any better (probably?!?). I’ve had more than a few say they should have backed McCain. In other words, “buyer’s remorse” has set in here in the heartland of America.

If the Democrats in Washington (and in Des Moines) are losing support of these guys, then I think we’re going to see one hell of an upset come next November, because the way these people are talking, there’s no way they’re voting for them again.

We’ve got a special election coming up on Sept. 1 here in this part of Iowa, and it should be a good litmus test of what’s going to happen in about a year. If this guy wins, Chet Culver and the rest of the Democrats in the State House are going to be running for cover. And so will the politicians in Washington.