Republican Failure By John D. Turner
As the dust of the 2006 elections settles, the analysis begins. Both parties will sit down in formerly smoke-filled rooms to go over “lessons learned” and adjust strategy for their 2008 campaigns. It will be interesting to see exactly what they come up with. For the Republicans, will the lessons they take away from this debacle push them back to the conservative principles stated in their party platform, or will they decide that conservatism is dead and shift more to the left. For Democrats, will they understand why the electorate voted as they did, or will they see it as a big referendum for a broad-spectrum Liberal agenda.
Taking a look at the big picture, we see that the Democrats made big gains in the House, enough gains in the Senate to assume control there, and a gain of six Governorships, giving them the State House lead, 28-21, reversing Republican control there as well.
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