The midterm was about economics. It was about folks having to use a credit card to put gas in their cars and worried about the value of their homes.
A lot of folks who took the President's war updates at face value that progress was being made in Iraq voted Dem because they were unhappy with the way their own lives seemed to be heading.
Why, because Pat Buchanan says so? No, this election was nationalized by the Iraq war and nothing else. That's why we got hit by a blue tidal wave. In some specific locations economics undoubtedly played a role. However, those issues wouldn't have impacted the control of Congress had the war in Iraq not been such an issue.
The economy is a stellar performer on a national basis. In some areas certain industries are struggling for a myriad of reasons. The garment industry has been dieing for 30 years and has done nothing to help itself other than to demand protection from Washington. These kinds of transitions have been going on in our economy for hundreds of years and we're much better off because of it.
The worst thing you can do to an economy is waste valuable worker capital on work that could be done elsewhere. The better and natural course is to move labor up to higher uses, and this is something we've always done, and is what is always done in growing economies. Economies that are stationary implode. Besides, you can't show us any statistics from a reliable source that shows our economy is suffering in any way. We're still the locomotive of the global economy and the envy of the world.