Psychoblues
Senior Member
Dems, always the true majority, will overcome the monetary benefit of the republicans and will speak truth to power. With this they will continue to protect the environment, protect the peoples that actually build and make this country work and protect the international communities from the undue and uninvited aggressions of those that wish to only exploit their peoples and other resourses. The Democrats are the hope of the world and they are here and now and here to stay.
By Don Rose
a freelance writer and political consultant in Chicago
Published December 26, 2006
There is strong evidence that November's Democratic sweep may be more than a one-shot reaction to an unpopular president and his war--it might be one of those pivotal elections leading to a lasting, long-term majority in the Congress and potentially the presidency.
Democrats took control of Congress, making history by taking 30 House and six Senate seats without losing a single incumbent or open race. This was especially impressive against a House so gerrymandered that 95 percent of incumbents tend to keep their seats. In all, nearly 58 percent of the total national congressional vote went to the Democrats, as did more than 55 percent of the Senate vote (if you include votes cast for two independents who caucus with the Democrats).
Further, another dozen House seats that stayed Republican were decided by extremely narrow margins--many under 1,000 votes. In 2008 those seats will again be vulnerable, especially in the larger turnout expected in a presidential year, although a few of this year's upsets could revert back.
Yes, voters reacted against the war and corruption, but also the two-tiered economy, with its increasing income inequality. Many of the incoming senators and House members ran and won on populist economic issues, which have long been a unifying Democratic theme--downplaying some of the more divisive social issues. Though this economy looks good by traditional yardsticks, it clearly doesn't work for large numbers of middle- and working-class families.
Economics was the glue that bound together Franklin Roosevelt's coalition and it promises again to solidify a majority in the coming years.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
This is a new beginning. A refurbishment of the FDR principles and an improvement on the LBJ War On Poverty in the United States of America. This can go worldwide!!!!!! Can you dig it?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
Psychoblues
By Don Rose
a freelance writer and political consultant in Chicago
Published December 26, 2006
There is strong evidence that November's Democratic sweep may be more than a one-shot reaction to an unpopular president and his war--it might be one of those pivotal elections leading to a lasting, long-term majority in the Congress and potentially the presidency.
Democrats took control of Congress, making history by taking 30 House and six Senate seats without losing a single incumbent or open race. This was especially impressive against a House so gerrymandered that 95 percent of incumbents tend to keep their seats. In all, nearly 58 percent of the total national congressional vote went to the Democrats, as did more than 55 percent of the Senate vote (if you include votes cast for two independents who caucus with the Democrats).
Further, another dozen House seats that stayed Republican were decided by extremely narrow margins--many under 1,000 votes. In 2008 those seats will again be vulnerable, especially in the larger turnout expected in a presidential year, although a few of this year's upsets could revert back.
Yes, voters reacted against the war and corruption, but also the two-tiered economy, with its increasing income inequality. Many of the incoming senators and House members ran and won on populist economic issues, which have long been a unifying Democratic theme--downplaying some of the more divisive social issues. Though this economy looks good by traditional yardsticks, it clearly doesn't work for large numbers of middle- and working-class families.
Economics was the glue that bound together Franklin Roosevelt's coalition and it promises again to solidify a majority in the coming years.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
This is a new beginning. A refurbishment of the FDR principles and an improvement on the LBJ War On Poverty in the United States of America. This can go worldwide!!!!!! Can you dig it?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
Psychoblues
