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>> I don’t call it cynical. I think it’s a fairly safe reading of the electorate.
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> Take your hardnose off, brother, and remember the tsunami of November 2014. Dems were handed their asses from coast to coast, and at every level of government.
> The only thing saving the Dems' skins at this point, is the Republican leadership in Washington.
> The electorate is angry at Obama's anti-American agenda, and voted to STOP it in its tracks. That's the real mandate of the people. Don't let recent betrayals against us cloud that fact for you.

I think Windflier is right: people in-general are pissed at the business as usual, anti-American, and [honestly] the propagated injustice and tyranny from DC — what she [correctly, IMO] identifies as the Dems getting their asses handed to them the Repubs are taking to mean I'm not a Democrat is enough to be elected/win.

I've heard stories that the tsunami of calls to DC WRT the speakership [overwhelmingly anti-Boehner, IIUC] was astounding to the staffers — and I think that this is only gong to grow; also, it provides a prime opportunity to reach out to liberals and non-conservatives and point out the Constitution and how it [properly followed] prevents injustice. (A lot of liberals are far more conservative than you think and all that you need to get them on our side is to frame Constitutionalism in terms of Justice/Injustice.)

Actually, I have come to despise the terms conservative and liberal as descriptors in politics — they are meaningless as descriptors; conservative because it could mean returning to founding values OR preserving the status quo, liberal because, as used, it is essentially contrary to its dictionary definition.

I've heard stories that the tsunami of calls to DC WRT the speakership [overwhelmingly anti-Boehner, IIUC] was astounding to the staffers — and I think that this is only gong to grow

It is growing. By ever lengthening strides. Compare the results of the 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections, and it's apparent that the people are increasingly moving right in their political ideology and their voting.

If 2014 was a right facing tsunami, 2016 is going to be a mile wide asteroid strike to the heart of DC.

We've got every reason to be optimistic, because the American people have told us what they really think.