The democrat party has spent 12 years being the party of the opposition and they've gotten good at it. Not having a solid platform across the party has always been to their detriment in my opinion, but being that the repbulican party ran '06 without a message, "change" seemingly was enough to get out their vote.
Major fault goes to the republicans for lame candidates and negative campaigning, both of which stem from the lack of a unifying message. I knew the terrorism angle wasn't going to work long-term because if you're effective at your job, your lose your message. Why the republicans didn't spend any time on the strong economy is beyond me.
Dudes, you got beat buy candidates that sucked and you got beat across the board. Your only saving grace is that they beat you to a stalemate no matter which way the senate goes (at time of this writing, lawyers are on their way to 2 races that are too close to call). I think the DOW predicted it well yesterday, ending on an up-note. The markets don't like change, and what we now have is a log jam in our government. The house, now in democrat control is shy of the 66% (2/3 majority) required to override the republican votes. The senate, is effectively dead even either way it goes when the laywers get done and neither party will be able to move legislation through where a super majority of 60 votes is required let alone parlimentary proceedures where you need 60 votes to cut off debate on votes.
It'll be interesting if the republicans learn anything from '06. Your base stayed home because they were apathetic or they wanted to teach you a lesson. You need to understand that and deal with it.
Until '08, gridlock rules the day.
Posted by nose at November 8, 2006 07:56 AM