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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
I'm getting ready to do really good, but have had some hard times. The median wage has dropped over 8% under Obama. Same time under Reagan, it came up $4,000
Most of the pollsters thought it wasn't going to be this bad for the democrats. They underestimated the republicans.
All I care about is if that idiot in office will finally get the message
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What pollsters were you looking at? I don't think anyone on the left is surprised or even all that bothered by these election results. Democrats were defending blue seats in red states, with a President whose 40% approval rating is very low but even that's high compared to the rest of the people in Washington. Look at turn out rates, Republicans sold their base on this being a "close, meanigngul election" I'd say most on the left, spent more time.. thinking about their fantasy football lineup for this weekend, than about an election that really means nothing.
Why would this be a message to Obama? He just won re-election, Democrats losing races in a bunch of states that voted 70-30 against him every election cycle isn't all that meaningful. You have a divided government, same as we've had since 2010. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have enough votes to do anything really in in the Senate, same as we've had since 2009. The only thing "meaingful" to come out of yesterday's election was.. Republicans get first pick at selecting their offices, for the next couple years. before they have a 2016 election where just like it was a bunch of blue seats in red staes, you have a bunch of red seats in blue states, meaning Democrats will likely re-take the Senate and are odds on favorite to hold the WH (and honestly if anything yesterday's results boost that chances, becaause as the GOP has snown, nothing "fires up" your base like crying about being in the minority -- that works much better than actually putting for policy ideas)