[chimera]

All good and true, a complete list of things that were all trumped by the perception that we are "losing" in Iraq, not making any progress, didn't find WMDs that we said were there. Scandals were a contributing factor, but not dispositive w/o the Iraq overhang. Barnes is right about that one. Republicans underestimated the anger of the majority of the electorate about this one issue.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Republicans underestimated the anger of the majority of the electorate about this one issue.

You can see that by perusing several of the post-mortem threads, and seeing how relatively infrequently that comes up.