(November 24, 2014 at 1:38 pm)Jaysyn Wrote:(November 22, 2014 at 10:31 am)A Theist Wrote: The voters also showed their opposition to the democratic party when they voted out the democrats in the State and National midterms.
And at the very same time voters showed their overwhelming preference for progressive laws & initiatives. Nearly every single proposed progressive ballot initiative either became law or at least had a majority (over 51%) while the regressive initiatives such as "personhood" failed nationwide. Almost all of the Demos that did win were running progressive campaigns, not trying to prove they were Repub-lite centrists.
This shows that the GOP and the Koch brother types are experts in pitting otherwise unified people against each other.
But to claim the GOP won this midterm is false. If we look at long term voting habits of both parties and president power vs congress, we flip, and that is not a mandate as much as the public saying "get something done".
In this case it isn't as much as the GOP won as much as it was like a fumble on the Dems part in messaging and getting out the vote.
