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Originally Posted by gunnut
After 14 years of republican domination in the Congress.
Dems won not because people liked the dems, but because Bush and the republican congress ditched their conservative base and the principle of limited government.
It was not a vote for the dems. It was a vote against the republicans. You can tell by the even lower ratings of this congress compared to the previous one.
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Gunnut:
You could also credit the fact that Bush's governing mandate was razor thin making it hard for for him to advance the GOP agenda without major compromises with the dems. He got his tax cut, Iraq, Medicare prescription benefits, and AIDs relief for Africa, among other initiatives by bargaining with the dems, and you know what that leads to. The pendulum can swing only so far in a 2-party system. The party that grabs the middle eventually wins power and that is usually the party that is out of power.