re: #341 lawhawk

Democrats won big in 2006 and then in 2008 because they were riding a wave of GOP corruption scandals (Abramoff, Cunningham, DeLay, etc., culture of corruption), and the incessant braying of the left going after Bush’s wartime policies. That galvanized the base, and the GOP responded poorly after 2006 to focus on key issues, and they let spending go out of control all while the Democrats were more disciplined in message.

Now, it’s the Democrats who have turned the swamp of corruption in DC into a swimming pool, and voters are going to be sending messages that the Democrats reckoning will be at hand.

They also won because Barack Obama ran one of the best campaigns in American history. He won, in part, from the sheer power of his personality.