Dang... why did the democrats have to win?

Answer 1

Well, on the surface things look pretty bleak for Republicans. Historically speaking, this is no surprise. However, it is not as bad as it seems!

History of mid-term elections: Any time the United States has been at war during a mid-term election, there has been a shift in power. The deaths from the war are never easy to take and as a whole, Americans do not have the stomach nor heart to endure continued losses, even for a good cause. This election's shift in power is no big surprise. However, there's a silver lining...

Several of the gains made by Democrats were by conservative democrats. Joe Lieberman, a registered and caucased Dem, ran against his own party's nominee as an independant... and WON! Joe is a conservative Dem that supports the cause of fighting terror. So if the war in Iraq is the cause for the shift in power, why were conservatives elected? While a majority of Americans feel things are going wrong in Iraq, they still understand the reason we are there. We are NOT supporting the Dem's idea of passing the baton of victory to the terrorists, but instead, want to be open-minded that we need a new strategy that will better ensure victory.

Another gleeming hope for Republicans is the fact that referendums this election tend to favor conservatism. Several states banned same sex marriage. One state banned abortion. Basically, while there was a cry for change in power, a majority of Americans still cling to conservative views.

Watch for Joe Lieberman to rally other Conservative Dems in the Senate. Should the VA seat fold to a Dem, the control they hoped for is still not locked. Joe and a handfull of Conservative Dems will still swing a good deal of power to the President on issues of the war on terrorism.

As far as Iraq goes, look for a change in strategy from the Bush admin. Bush will not cave to withdraw the troops totally but the Dems in the House will control the purse-strings, so Bush may make some concessions. With so much divide in Iraq amongst it's own people, there may be more talk of dividing Iraq. Keep in mind Iraq was actually three seperately governed territories until the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WW I; Vilayet of Mosul, Vilayet of Bagdad, & Vilayet of Basra. These could be carved out again, allowing the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites to have some sort of atonomy which may bring about peace.

Answer 2

Change is almost always good. Republicans may wake up and reinvigorate. They spent so much time on morals issues that even the moral got fed up. But nothing dramatic will happen other than trying to frustrate Bush as we move on to Hillary. Democrats will now have to take some of the blame for what happens because with Pilosi as speaker of the house, they will have to keep her contained. Most new Democrats are closer to the middle than to the left so Pilosi may be in for a hard run. The big issue other than the war will be immigration. On paper, we will have an open border as soon as the Dems take control. Instead, we will find a lot of Dems himming and hawing about why they support a secure border. Duh. Anyone ever considered an unsecured border after 9/11? Only Vincente Fox and the Activists. Trust me.

Answer 3

Because:
The Iraq war is a quagmire sucking lives and resources from us.
The deficit is through the roof - yet the rich got their tax cuts.
The Republicans bungled Katrina. Fema doesn't work now.
No child left behind is unfunded - yet the rich got their tax cuts.
The republicans have been in power and passing laws with impunity with no checks and balances. Thus they fostered an atmosphere of corruption.
Bush has lost the confidence of the American people.

Answer 4

Because the repubs got too confident and cocky. The "Business as usual" mentality shot them in the foot (or was it the head?). And, because the American people are too stupid to remember from one day to the next and learn from history. Stupid is as stupid does. Everyone will now get exactly what they asked for. Iraq REALLY Will end up like Vietnam. We'll pull out prematurely, leaving a very weak and unstable government in place that will quickly lapse into even more chaos than what it already is and America will be the bad guy/bully of the world for having destabilized the region. Terrorism will flourish more than ever because America is too soft in the belly (and the head) to stand up and fight. It will be a sitting duck, cowering in the face of tyranny. Yep *sigh* stand by for heavy rolls.

Answer 5

The media scandal mongering in the last 6 weeks harmed Republicans. Also the constant river of bad news from Iraq hurt them. Historically, however, willy is correct. A second term President's party tends to take big hits in midterm elections, so what happened last night is not ununusal. Interesting that it could have been WORSE.

Answer 6

the spectacular does no longer particularly like Romney. some communicate teach hosts have disregarded him case in point. Obama is often cooperative. As George Bernard Shaw suggested, "no longer something is ever accomplished via a reasonable guy".

Answer 7

Wow, you people are funny. Everyone is wrong except you! If it was the other way around, you'd all be saying, see this is a mandate to stay the course! Well, this is a mandate by the voters all over this country to alter the course! Sorry you're such poor losers. No, I'm actually not-I don't care if you are or aren't because I know if things had gone the other way, you'd be jamming it down Dem's throats.

Answer 8

because the country has grown more and more liberal over the years. Standards don't mean much and people are soft on everything and the Dems appeal to this way of thinking.

Answer 9

I think people go to the polls and randomly push buttons (if you do, you're stealing my strategy) I started to build my bomb shelter after the democrats won. I live in NY so we got Hilary who's hasn't really specified what she has done for us for the 100 years she was senator so kinda makes you think a-little.

Answer 10

bAbout the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the pulic treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Gore : 19; Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by:Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million; Bush : 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush : 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say good-bye to the USA in fewer than five years.