To All The Liberals

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Originally Posted by 12thMan

That's one way to look at it, but with all due respect I think your analysis, while partially correct, is still a little short sighted of what happened last night.

Midterms are ALL about voter turnout and which side has the most energy. Less than 50% of Americans are registered to vote. And less than 50% of THOSE people turned out yesterday. So, from state to state, you had between 23% and 30% of the population of those states determining who was going to govern the entire population of those states. This year it was unquestionably the GOP energized by the Tea Party and other right wing elements.

The spin that this was a referendum on Obama sounds good, but support for Obama's agenda, for him as a president, and for him as a person, are all fairly decent, when you ask ALL Americans. Republicans and the Tea Party failed miserably at making any real inroads in reliably blue districts, couldn't unseat a vulnerable Harry Reid, didn't make a dent in either race in California despite all the money they threw around. So the message against HOPE and CHANGE wasn't as resounding as some would like to portray it. Still the White House didn't like waking up to a Republican majority this morning. Things just got harder.

I count lack of voter turnout as disillusionment with our fair messiah. He turned out the vote in '08 because people who don't like what the system has become got off their asses and voted for his high and mighty BS about hope and change. That's what happened. Whether those same people abandon him by either voting the other way or not voting at all it is still a referendum on his agenda. Republicans swung some independents their way and Obama left a great amount of his independent base on the bench last night. That's his fault for the way he has governed. I wholeheartedly believe that unless he moves back towards actually doing something about the culture in DC and at least presenting the perception that he is trying to change it then he will be rather susceptible in 2012.