I remember past elections. If you have any sense of American electoral history at all, you'll recall that 1980 was a wave as was 1994, 2002, 2004, 2010 and now 2014.
Of course 2012 wasn't a wave nor was 2008 or 2006 nor 1992 or 1996 and certainly not 1998 when the GOP lost 5 seats in Clinton's sixth year.
"The Republicans will obviously have their own narrative about why this election turned out how it did, and that narrative will presume that the electorate as a whole was persuaded to reject Obama’s policies and embrace the GOP agenda. Republicans will say that they won because the American people as a whole are hungering for tax cuts, slashing the EPA, and returning the health care system back to the good old days of 50 million uninsured and denials for pre-existing conditions, and finally realized it after all the polls were in. You’ll notice that every party wants to talk about its terrific ground game right up until election day, but the day after, the winners will tell you that the election wasn’t wasn’t about turnout at all."
"But as it usually is in midterms, turnout was everything. In the end, more Republicans than expected went to the polls, and more Democrats than expected stayed home. That’s what turns a win into a wave."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/11/05/republicans-get-the-wave-they-wanted/
So define a wave any way you like but just don't call it a wave against liberal ideas or against Obama's policies.
"This was the one bright spot for liberals. Minimum wage increases passed in all four states where they were on the ballot (Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota), even though all were heavily Republican states. “Personhood” measures failed in both Colorado and North Dakota. Oregon and Alaska approved measures legalizing recreational marijuana use and establishing a regulated market, while a D.C. measure that passed easily would make possession of small amounts legal (we’ll have to wait to see whether Congress intervenes on the implementation).
Of course 2012 wasn't a wave nor was 2008 or 2006 nor 1992 or 1996 and certainly not 1998 when the GOP lost 5 seats in Clinton's sixth year.
"The Republicans will obviously have their own narrative about why this election turned out how it did, and that narrative will presume that the electorate as a whole was persuaded to reject Obama’s policies and embrace the GOP agenda. Republicans will say that they won because the American people as a whole are hungering for tax cuts, slashing the EPA, and returning the health care system back to the good old days of 50 million uninsured and denials for pre-existing conditions, and finally realized it after all the polls were in. You’ll notice that every party wants to talk about its terrific ground game right up until election day, but the day after, the winners will tell you that the election wasn’t wasn’t about turnout at all."
"But as it usually is in midterms, turnout was everything. In the end, more Republicans than expected went to the polls, and more Democrats than expected stayed home. That’s what turns a win into a wave."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/11/05/republicans-get-the-wave-they-wanted/
So define a wave any way you like but just don't call it a wave against liberal ideas or against Obama's policies.
"This was the one bright spot for liberals. Minimum wage increases passed in all four states where they were on the ballot (Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota), even though all were heavily Republican states. “Personhood” measures failed in both Colorado and North Dakota. Oregon and Alaska approved measures legalizing recreational marijuana use and establishing a regulated market, while a D.C. measure that passed easily would make possession of small amounts legal (we’ll have to wait to see whether Congress intervenes on the implementation).
Washington state had two competing measures on guns, one mandating universal background checks and an NRA-backed one forestalling background checks. The universal checks won, and the NRA’s measure lost."
So it was not a repudiation of liberal policies-ie, not a repudiation of the President's policies. It might have been a repudiation of chicken liberal Democrats who acted like he had cooties, but that's something else.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-democrats-allison-grimes-problem.html
UPDATE: If you're counting, personhood is now 0-5. Yep, Obama's ideas have been discredited.
UPDATE: If you're counting, personhood is now 0-5. Yep, Obama's ideas have been discredited.
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