a good omen for 2016.."
electorate confuses the voter
Whereas in Britain, though you vote for your local MP the emphasis in adverts etc is voting for the party.
Yes, I do. However, two years is several lifespans in political America. Who knows where we'll be then?
Your great Prime Minister (and half American if I may add) Winston Churchill called December 7th, 1941, the greatest day in the War for him, because he knew that with America in it, both Nazism and Imperial Japan would be defeated. So think of the world BEFORE that date and then after, and how much changed in a couple of hours!
Still, the democrats are and have been too far Left, and the country that is the USA is still primarily conservative, and the inherit failures of the Left, from policy to actual operations, were bound to present themselves and people would take notice.
The Right has also had bad moments, and I'm not sure they've learned their lesson... Many here bring up the point that it is not the Right missing the mark, so to speak, but rather the Republicans in Name Only.
When they had all three branches under George W. Bush they spent and governed too much like democrats and the "Enemedia" piled on the anti-war bandwagon that the democrats hitched themselves to when things got tough, so then the people got tired of them and threw them out, but the replacements (Obama, Reid and Pelosi) where far, far worse!
So what is next? I fear Boehner and McConnell will give us the same old song and dance and then all bets are OFF.