"Today is the day people will reassure you that the Republican victory in the 2014 midterms was not so big.
"They'll say it wasn't
really a repudiation of Obama. Or it kinda sorta doesn't count because the electorate
was unrepresentative. They'll point to a handful of ballot initiatives and say that Colorado rejected the personhood amendment and Oregon and D.C. voted for legalizing marijuana. A little re-framing here, a hand-wave at some third-party spoilers there, and presto, it wasn't a bad day for liberalism after all. And hey, look, a federal judge
overturned a ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas yesterday. It's a "
Victory for the Left."
"We have been told that the GOP
ran on nothing and that
the party has no mandate. In truth, the congressional GOP has an identifiable record:
unremitting opposition to Obama. Apparently, the electorate wanted more of that.
"The Republicans got nothing but rewards for
obstructionism. No Contract with America was needed. The 2014 electorate was willing to hire the Republicans like day laborers: Pull up, hop in. No, I don't need your C.V.
You castrate pigs? Great, you got a job.
"You can
blame the map, blame the 2010 Tea Party wave of
gerrymandering, or blame
old white people. Obama was supposed to be
a liberal Reagan, reversing 30 years of moderate to conservative governance. But Obama's historic elections had no effect on the midterm electorate which now has a 20-year bias toward the GOP. The rollout of ObamaCare with politically
convenient delays and triggers over a period of years seems to have spread the damage from the expected fallout rather than contained it."
Stop denying the truth The Democrats got walloped - The Week