2006-11-09 17:09:09 · 21 answers · asked by Arbio 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
The way the war is going in Iraq
2006-11-09 17:11:42 · answer #1 · answered by whidd2003 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In reality, about 95% of the votes caused no change. In California, for example, there was no change on anything. All the incumbents won and I don't think any propositions won either. Just a few Republican senators lost, but some Democrat senators lost around the country.
I think only those states that threw those people out know. There was a lot of personel mud slinging on both sides and I haven't seen all the ads. One senate seat was lost because a Republican senator had the hots for a page and another lost because he was the Republican speaker that should have known about the issue. In didn't help that many Democrats from New Orleans moved after Katrina. So Republican areas could have turned Democratic from the shift.
2006-11-10 03:04:21 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Americans have lost confidence with Pres. Bush. People are realizing that scare tactics have been used to justify the contined war in Iraq and people are also tired of being thought of as ingnorant enough to believe all the rhetoric.
Also, Americans realize that now that Bush has made enemies of even more countries, there is in fact an increased risk of the very terrorism the Bush government has been trying to avoid.
The basis for the war in Iraq was a lie. The war has been called too many things.........Freedom Iraq, war against terror, yadda yadda yadda. There is not truth in the Bush administration.
2006-11-10 01:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by doug b 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This was more a message to the GOP to fall back in line behind Reagan Conservatism rather than drift left as they have been doing.
Most of the Democrats who won seats are actually Blue Dog Democrats who are more Conservative like Joe Lieberman and Jim Webb for example.
Conservatism didn't loose this election, on the contrary. American Conservatives decided rather to put aside Party phobias and vote for anyone who even remotely were willing to stand to the right.
This go around it just happened to be some Democrats...Who would have thought?
2006-11-10 15:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush is only the prez at this time. The entire right wing was thumped. The real question asks weather an international coalition of tyrants is involved with an illicit form of government in the US.
2006-11-10 01:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dem voters voted for their people and party line Repubs voted for thiers. The problem the Repubs had was that many of us true conservatives feel that today's Republican party is not much different from the Dems of 30 years ago, so we either voted for somebody else or sat at home and let the ba***rds swing in the wind all by themselves. They screwed the people that put them into office so now they're paying for it.
2006-11-10 02:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by lazyhrnch 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually from what I'm hearing only about 40% of the voters voted so it isn't like all of America voted for the demo's and even then it was pretty close. I don't think it was really a case where the Republicans crossed over but they simply didn't get out or couldn't get out to vote and had they this may never would have happened!
2006-11-10 01:18:08 · answer #7 · answered by Brianne 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
People got curious: now that the Republicans have royally screwed us into the ground, what more could the Democrats possibly do?
I suppose we'll find out; I don't care how in-cohesive the Dems are, they can't be any worse than a unified body of hard-core hypocritical conservative Republicans who believe in legislating the private lives of every freaking citizen.
2006-11-10 05:14:19 · answer #8 · answered by Lilywhite 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The war in Iraq plus un-trust from citizens toward Bush and the Party.
2006-11-10 01:18:24 · answer #9 · answered by Gentleman. 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
To remove 'total control' of one party..This is pretty typical of mid-term elections - the party controlling House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections:
In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.
In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.
In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.
In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.
Even Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office.
These statistics shows us that it really isnt that surprising but typical.
2006-11-10 01:19:09 · answer #10 · answered by pinklep 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋