I’ve been meaning to comment on this since before the election.
I watch the NBC Nightly News. (My wife likes Brian Williams.) In the days leading up to the mid-term election, the theme oft repeated was that the people are “fed up with both parties”. Who would end up with control of the Senate was “too close to call”.
Given the closeness of so many races, what with recounts and runoff elections, we may not know who will control the Senate until January.
People were, we were told, increasingly turning to third parties because, as cannot be mentioned often enough, the electorate was “fed up with both parties” and with “gridlock” (which the MSM seems to think means Obama’s inability to inflict more of his pernicious agenda on America).
It was almost as if they were trying to convince us that this is so — that we are fed up with both parties and will be voting for third party candidates (who, with luck will act as spoilers and throw races to Democrats).
Man, did they ever get it wrong!
If “gridlock” is the problem, turning the Senate over to the Republicans does not seem like the answer. Perhaps gridlock was not the problem seen by voters.
Was anyone, aside from the wishful thinking of the MSM, surprised by the mid-term election results?