[LibFreeOrDie]

Since World War II, the parties that controlled the White House for two terms have lost an average of 29 House seats and six Senate seats in their second midterm elections

Then it's a psycho-cyclical thing, and not a referendum on any issue...

[Ingtar]

Throw in that Catholics and Evangelicals switch to voting more Democratic this go around. If you consider how close things came, if the Republicans had only shown enough character to hold one of the various groups that they alienated, they could have pulled out another historic set of gains.

[MNJohnnie]

Pretty tough to be a referendum on any issues except maybe. "'we will spend all we can "for your children" "elect us, we are not corrupt" "War sucks" or "We are just like them only less so".

Depending on where you were in the country you only hear one of those three platforms. Since those are slogans pretty hard for them to tell us their agenda. Of course, they do not have to have an agenda. Simply not being us is enough for 48% of the country to love them. They can simply rely upon our 100%ers to talk down our turnout enough to win.

[El Gato]

Then it's a psycho-cyclical thing, and not a referendum on any issue...

Doesn't matter. The fact is that the radical left wing of the Democratic party is now in control of both houses of Congress, and we have a lame duck President.

Now that would be bad enough, but those radical leftists want to cut & run from those who want to kill us, and they also want to take our arms away at the same time.