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This article is essentially just discussing the fact that this year's mid-terms are looking to be a rough election for democrats, even though there are some optimistic democrats. It is interesting the comment towards the beginning of the article about how even though the republicans were prepared in 2006, they still lost because it was essentially a referendum of the party in power.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Has there ever been an election that wasn't a "referendum of the party in power?"

Steve Eichstadt said...

ummm....the first one?

Unknown said...

Zing!

But can't we call that a referendum on the founders (that proto-party of Federalists)?

Steve Eichstadt said...

I suppose, although it was pretty much gone by the time the election actually took place. But if you take the whole sequence of events including the first election, then yeah.