re: #375 palomino

You won’t get much of an argument from me on most of those contentions. Where I would argue is the nations response to the Iraq war. In 2006 3/5ths of the voters who said the Iraq war was a mistake voted for the dems. That means that 40% of the people who thought there was a problem still voted for repubs.

IMO, what that really hurt the repubs was the spending issue since it kept fiscal conservative voters from either coming out to vote or switching to dems. You may not have been paying much attention to internal republican squabbles but spending issues had been boiling since 2005 with the porkbusters vs. trent lott. It doesn’t surprise me that people upset with bush spending got very upset when obama doubled down on the issue.