Your relatives not withstanding, we lost on the issues. Until we acknowledge that and change our positions we will continue to lose. Blaming the media is not a winning strategy. Clearly the war in IRAQ has gone on too long...I'm for winning (still not convinced about how we got there) but this has been moving far too slowly and that is the problem...results gets votes...Failure to enforce a strong immigration policy is a major vote loser for the GOP. Bush's position is irrational and the irony and agony is by losing he has won the ability to press his irrational agenda on illegal amnesty. Failing to make Judicial appointments a campaign issue hurt us in the Senate, failure to follow through on Social Security reform, and on and on...The loss is no way a media caused event...as Pogo said "We has met the enemy and he is US." It is us we have to fix not the press; fixing the press in this country is not possible.
Which explains why those who did got thrown out unless they were in hypersafe gerrymandered districts.
It is us we have to fix
Well, that isn't going to happen. For the sake of this or that favored position, we have just lost the war on terror and stabbed our troops in the back for the second time in a generation. Yes, I dare call it treason.
I agree about the issues but we lost on how people were told things were going.