The Tea Party won no seat that the Republicans would not have held or taken anyway this year, stopped them from winning the Senate seats in Nevada and Delaware, and has probably done the same thing in Alaska. Lisa Murkowski says that she will caucus with the GOP. If the Tea Party lasts until 2012, then will there be more like her?
Meanwhile, Proposition 19 has failed in California. Marijuana legalisation has been rejected by the same people who have on the same day re-elected Barbara Boxer and restored Jerry Brown. The same people who, on the same day as they gave their Electoral College votes to Obama, also voted to reaffirm the definition of marriage as only ever the union of one man and one woman, Obama's own view. That is the Democratic Party's base.
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Yep, and the Democrats would do well to listen to their base more often. At least the Republicans throw red meat at their base. The Democrats openly insult theirs.
ReplyDeleteThe voting patterns of California are something worthy of an independent study. I mean, Californians voted to stop same-sex marriage - TWICE - but also voted to allow underage girls to have abortions without parental notification, THREE TIMES.
ReplyDeleteVery complex...
But I can say that I'm happy that my fellow Californians fought off the bandwagon GOP trend that was happening in the rest of the Union - although, as you said, we lacked better candidates (I'm even skeptical about Brown; I didn't even exist when he was governor last time).