Then it's a psycho-cyclical thing, and not a referendum on any issue...
Without serious voter fraud in MO and VA the outcome would have been different.
This is actually a pretty fair piece coming as it does from the DNC's shrillest mouthpiece, CBS.
..."independents" and "moderates" goes well with "hysterics," "indecisives" and generally, "socialists."
I keep hearing this about the independents and moderates. But the result is that the LIBERALS now have more power.
No, they won't. They absolutely do not have to.
War and foreign policy are the president's problems.
The Dems merely have to investigate, carp and whine and listen to the media sing their praises.
What a deal!
Oh they could do something- cut funding- and reap the universal disdain of the populace, but why on Earth would they be so foolish as to take the blame for the loss of Iraq onto their heads?
Better to feed their media more criticisms of what the president did and does to prepare the way for 2008.
In exit polls, 47 percent of voters described their views as moderate, 21 percent liberal and 32 percent conservative. And 61 percent of the moderates voted Democratic this year."
That means that 28% of the electorate were moderates that voted Dem,
That means that 18% of the electorate were moderates that voted Republican.
Interesting - it means that the Democrats have more moderates than liberals in their voting base, but
Republicans have 2 to 1 ratio of conservatives to moderates.
Of course, these labels are subjective, but this balance is interesting. If the Democrats went massively moderate, they could be the dominant party ... but they cant, they need the liberal base.
Right. Clinton vetoed it twice before signing the same bill on the third go around in August, 1996 to avoid having it remain as an issue in the 1996 election.
And the Dems have been nibbling away at it ever since then.