I wrote in Nov 2006...
BAM! We have a Republican Congress.
What this does not indicate: A full-on endorsement of the American people of the Republican platform. What it probably indicates is that people were rejecting the current incarnation of the Democrat party and this was the only way to wake them up and get them to listen.
Which is a damn shitty way to make course corrections.
When you have only two viable parties, you create a situation where the rejection of A is a de facto endorsement of B. And when B acts like the got an endorsement, they tend to get nuked the next cycle.
As in 2006, people don't care who is expanding government into every aspect of their lives, but they've got so very little real choice about who gets to be in congress.
BAM! We have a Republican Congress.
What this does not indicate: A full-on endorsement of the American people of the Republican platform. What it probably indicates is that people were rejecting the current incarnation of the Democrat party and this was the only way to wake them up and get them to listen.
Which is a damn shitty way to make course corrections.
When you have only two viable parties, you create a situation where the rejection of A is a de facto endorsement of B. And when B acts like the got an endorsement, they tend to get nuked the next cycle.
As in 2006, people don't care who is expanding government into every aspect of their lives, but they've got so very little real choice about who gets to be in congress.