Summary: Like it or not, Republicans got owned. Currently they're down 27 house seats (giving the Dems a healthy 32 seat majority), four senators and six governors. Bush is gonna be doing a lot of vetos in the next two years.
Any thoughts? The Dems controlling the house should pave the way for some change, but with Bush still in the hot seat and the Senate split nothing drastic is likely to happen, and I wonder if the left can keep it together until and during the 2008 presidential run. They dominated this election largely because of discontent with the status quo rather then their own merits... can they present a unified front behind a strong candidate, or will they still be counting on Bush-hate and Iraq to propel them all the way to the presidency? It didn't work in '04.
Rumsfeld just threw in the towel. Makes me wonder... was he thinking he was going to be brought to trial or something?
>They dominated this election largely because of discontent with the status quo rather then their own merits
I'm not sure if you can really say that this election. Dems just hammered the Repubs on the war issue, which was what we've been asking them to do since the Kerry campaign.
>Rumsfeld just threw in the towel. Makes me wonder... was he thinking he was going to be brought to trial or something?
he is not a criminal. i think he will take another position.
i am not an American.
so i don't know much about Democratics.
are they going to withdraw from Iraq?
Iran seems always hopes to have nuclear weapons and N-Korea is still getting money from S-Korea.
what if North Korea exports Nukes?
also, inside of America, poor people are getting poor and rich people are getting rich.
there are so many problems.
really can Democratics solve the matters?
No, but divided government may prevent the people in power from making things much worse.
I think that the reason Rumsfeld quit now is to have the old Senate vote on his replacement. He had to go sooner or later, but by having him resign now, the Republicans vote on him, rather than the Democrats. People in America do vote on these people, right?