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You don't understand what i mean...you are a freeper...you know about 1000 times more about the nuances of politics than the everyday joe in America...the pubs have held the power for a while now and IMO they squandered a lot of it and this led to a throw the bums out mentality...don't analyze it with a fine point...think Reagan and how he a got a general swell of confidence from the masses even though he was facing a monolithic media storm...Bush and the present pub leadership can't communicate well to them( be honest, Bush makes you nervous when he speaks)....sure us freepers know the game but how bout the great unwashed?

Well, you make some good points, but does that mean that conservatives in general, especially those who lost, did not communicate well with the public? Again, I don't know, because here in OH, we had a very good conservative candidate for governor, who articulated his positions well, who made clear distinctions of his conservatism with his opponent, whose message basically boiled down to "I'm not Bush and I'm not a Republican", and he had his head handed to him on a platter.

The great unwashed decide elections. They get their news from the MSM, not alternate media. The MSM is against Republicans, we know that. This means that we have to fight all the harder, and I don't think Bush and the Republicans ever made a strong, concerted effort to counter the 'Rat and MSM message of "disaster" in Iraq. If we don't learn that lesson from this defeat, we're just going to lose again. An unpopular war cost us this election. The polls told us that. We chose to fool ourselves and tried to convince each other that "the polls are wrong". Well, they weren't, and now we'll all pay the price.