“I wonder if the conservatives who stayed home are happy with the results”?
I personally AM happy with the results, or happier than I would have been with McCain. Under him, we would have gotten largely the same thing, and under the aegis of the GOP. The dems would have been able to continue their bitching to their advantage while getting their agenda pushed through, then claim it was “bipartisan”. I’d rather the battle lines be more clearly drawn, as they are with Obama.