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Originally Posted by Seaver
The poor economy (I've honestly seen 0 improvement... I'm STILL unemployed), ineffectual government (failed financial reform), and a 0 sum insurance "reform" which fixes almost nothing, all help remove any momentum the Democrats hope to have. This effectively kills their base and puts independents to sleep.
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I think the media just wants a fight. It will be boring if one side is a majority and there is no controversy, and their ratings will suffer.
The next thing is I wonder how many people will vote selfishly veruses what is the best direction for this country to head in. I mean, I think that both parties need to start reducing the deficit in major & unpopular ways, and we need to stop spending so much money on oil from unfriendly nations (and thinking we can make up the difference by drilling here). But, I'm not sure how much someone should blame the government for not getting a job. The unknown laws were causing some problems, but once the businesses know what the rules will be, they will be able to plan for the future and hire again if they need to. I think the financial system has recovered and I think millions of people that were about to retire when their 401k's lost half their value would be happy. And at the end of the day, there were some improvments to the health insurance system, yet it was the Republicans that got in the way of 'real' reform and left nobody happy.