>>My belief in 2004 was to vote Republican, and then fight their ideas and challenge them to do better.
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>>They've failed, plain and simple. As much as I hate to say this, the Republicans needed a huge loss to get their house in order. I just hope this country doesn't sway too far to the left.
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>I don't think it will. The reason the democrats won everything was becuase the Republicans failed to be "Republicans".... does that make since?

It makes perfect sense. In fact I was listening to one analyst talk about exactly that. He felt that the Reps had lost their way over the Bush term and had become far too religiously politicised and spent far more time trying to interfere in people's lives than republicans are supposed to do. He felt that the mid-term election was a good thing from a republican point of view because it will force them to sit down and reassess their direction. He felt they would eventually realise that they need to get back to being the republicans that republican voters expect.