Agree to disagree but I'm a new converted fiscal conservative so you haven't convinced me your way is best for all I've just realized if you can't beat em join em.Well it wasn't a mandate for Republican ideas.Democrats show up every four years midterms are conservatives secret weapon. Usually. Independents don't show up.Republicans obstructed Obama from day one and 2010 was a whitelash.
I believe Barry described it as a "shellacking", IM2! So you're claiming that the same voters that put Democrats into huge majorities in 2008 suddenly became racists in 2010 and their decision to vote Republican had nothing to do with what Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid DID with those huge majorities? The uncomfortable truth for liberals like yourself is that the GOP didn't have the power to "obstruct" Obama, Pelosi and Reid in 2009 or 2010! They didn't gain that power until the midterm elections in 2010. If the voters had been happy with what they had done in those two years...the GOP would never had made historic gains in seats in that election. The voters were not happy with the direction the far left wing of the Democratic Party had taken the country. That wasn't a "racial" thing...that was a policy thing! Claiming otherwise is an amusing attempt at spinning what took place those first two years of the Obama Administration.
So how did something that you claim happens every midterm election become "whitelash", Sealy? Or was playing the race card a knee jerk reaction on your part?
And yes...mid term election turnouts tend to much smaller than Presidential elections but that doesn't explain the biggest swing of seats from one party to another in modern political history...does it?
It was a mandate for Republican's to stop Progressive ideas, Sealy! All those voters didn't change their minds after two years because they liked what Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were doing? If they HAD liked your agenda...they would have kept your Congress critters and Senators in office! They elected all of those Republicans to stop the nonsense before it really screwed up the country.
We don't really have a mandate. People didn't show up and vote Republican they didn't show up at all. Proof of that is how many showed up for Trump compared to 2014 midterm show up or Romney turnout two years ago.
But regardless Republicans won so fuck the masses. I tried to get them healthcare and increased minimum wage but they didn't show up for Hillary like their entitlements counted on it. Well they are now on the chopping block. If they don't vote they don't get.