Blah-blah-blah.
The truth of the matter is Republicans made themselves vulnerable with
their fiscal irresponsibility, and the media made it possible for
democrats to run on virtually no issues. Those they did espouse
were done behind a veil of lies and distortions (stem cells) much like
the 1992 "Worst economy in our nations history"
Clint-lie was allowed to stand, unchallenged, by a
sycophant media. In the final analysis though, I think it's
probably nothing more than this ...
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The
average first midterm election loss for every elected president since
1914 is 27 House seats and three Senate seats. The average sixth-year
midterm election, like this year, is much worse for the president's
party, which typically loses 34 seats in the House and six seats in the
Senate.
This makes the average loss in two midterm elections for the party in
the White House: 30 House seats and four or five Senate seats in each
midterm election.
In his first midterm election, George W. Bush picked up six House seats
and two Senate seats — making him, according to The New York Times,
"the first Republican president to gain House seats in an off-year
election" and only the third president of either party to pick up House
seats in a midterm election since the Civil War.
This means that for Democrats simply to match the historical average
gain for the party out of the White House during the first and second
midterm, they would have to pick up 67 seats in the House and 11 seats
in the Senate. They're about 30 Mark Foleys short of having that happen.
It at least seems clear that Democrat gains this year are going to fall
far short of the historical average. No poll has the Democrats winning
even half of their rightful midterm gains.
Despite the precedent of big wins in midterm elections for the party
out of power — especially in a sixth-year midterm election — something
is depressing the Democrats' popularity with Americans this year. I
suspect it's the perception that many of them are Democrats.
But instead of recognizing that the Democratic Party is a dying party,
falling far short of its due historical gains, any gain by the
Democrats will be hailed as a crowning mandate for the party that wants
to lose the Iraq war, shut down Guantanamo and stop spying on Islamic
terrorists on U.S. soil.
Even a dying party has death throes. If Democrats win a slight majority
in the House or Senate, Americans will get shrill, insane leadership of
the nation in time of war.
Democrats can't not be crazy. They will instantly set to work enacting
a national gay marriage law, impeachment hearings, slavery reparations
and a series of new federal felonies for abortion clinic protesters.
The only way to get Democrats to focus on terrorists would be to
convince them that the terrorists are interfering with a woman's right
to choose or that commercial jetliners exploding in midair are a threat
to America's wetlands. -- "Jihad is Fun! Support the Left!"
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