[Wolfstar]

IMHO, he (along with Laura Ingraham) are partly responsible for the 2006 low turnout and rout due to their incessant whining about the GOP.

I agree completely, and would only add that Hannity and Ingraham weren't the only so-called conservative commentators doing that.

[eureka!]

True, but those two were the worst, IMHO (putting aside Savage who, well, is what he is). So sad too. Loss of control in 2006 was by a total of 80,000 votes out of 30 million. But for that, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have been reigned in, among other things. *sigh*