[StarSlayer]

Well there you go folks. 

He ran a good campaign, it was relatively clean, he appeared to be a man of the people, and most importantly he harnessed the fact that people are pissed (and not in the wicked pissah type of way).  That more then anything is the important thing to note about this election, people are pissed.  If they stay this pissed come November Democrats are in trouble.

[Turambar]

With the amount of pissed I'd have to be to vote republican, I'd go on a lobbyist murdering rampage long before i got there.

[StarSlayer]

With the amount of pissed I'd have to be to vote republican, I'd go on a lobbyist murdering rampage long before i got there.

Well I wouldn't really call it some massive endorsement of Dubbaya esq Republicans.  It's not like the people of Mass have suddenly become 'born again Republicans or anything.'  Mass is generally kind of secular and socially progressive and quite frankly I doubt we would vote for a Dubbaya Republican even if we are pissed.  That said most people I know to are not happy with the way the government is handling things. 
They're not convinced the Health Care bill is a good idea, they see it as going to cause a drop in quality and a massive tax hike on the middle class.  I'm not familiar enough with the Bill itself to pass judgment but thats what the general assessment is.  Like I mentioned earlier when everybody were making fun of the silly teabaggers with their commie czar posters, its like an ice berg and you're only seeing a small portion of the top. 
The economy is another big problem, all people are seeing is a spiraling deficit without any great returns, and those college students that where hoping on the "Change" bandwagon are finding no jobs and a lot of disillusionment.  On top of that we still see no exit plan for Iraq and Afghanistan, nor a closure of Gitmo.

So all in all I see it as a rebuke of Democrats then an sudden love of the GOP.

[General Battuta]

I think the general pattern is cyclic. As soon as one party gains power, it immediately assumes blame for everything wrong with the world, and the other guys start gaining ground.

[Scotty]

Which I think is one of the greatest flaws of a two-party system.  Whether or not the fault is real, or even related to the group in power, it is attributed to that group's misdeeds and wrongdoings.

[Aardwolf]

I think the general pattern is cyclic. As soon as one party gains power, it immediately assumes blame for everything wrong with the world, and the other guys start gaining ground.

Except the Dems never really even got power... I mean, sure they got the presidency, but the Republicans have been making a mockery of the Filibuster.

[Scotty]

It certainly doesn't help that the Democrats can't really agree on much themselves either.  That aside, they have the presidency, and a majority in both houses.  They do have power, they just aren't using it very well.

[Turambar]

It certainly doesn't help that the Democrats can't really agree on much themselves either.  That aside, they have the presidency, and a majority in both houses.  They do have power, they just aren't using it very well.

they aren't nearly liberal enough, and they're all paid for with lobby money

i really shouldnt expect anything to ever get done here.

[Nuke]

no level of idealism will stop people from behaving like monkeys

[Mars]

no level of idealism will stop people from behaving like monkeys

QFT

[karajorma]

if you want to do porn, and then later want to do politics, id advise becoming a dominatrix.

I can certainly see it helping with blackmail given that most of your clients would tend to be other politicians and wealthy businessmen.

[Nuke]

I think the general pattern is cyclic. As soon as one party gains power, it immediately assumes blame for everything wrong with the world, and the other guys start gaining ground.

see i view the average voter in american politics much like a test pilot trying to get some prototype aircraft to fly straight and level. you can pull back on the stick and maybe go up or you can push and maybe go down. you dont like your altitude so you pull up, and nothing happens, so you pull up more and the aircraft lurches beyond its maximum angle of attack and you get a wing stall, which doesnt make the problem any better. so you gain your level flight path back, and decide your a little high, so you push on the stick and nothing happens, you push harder and you fall like a brick. test pilots call this a pilot induced oscillation, sometimes it flings one of them into the dirt at mach 2. the same thing happens with politics. voters dont like the state of the world, dont like all the pushy republicans trying to get there way so they vote democrat. then after awhile the moral norm degrades and our proud nation turns into a hedonistic party state. so the voter goes back to repulican because they think the librals have gone too far. only difference is theyre flying 7 zeplins duct taped to 4 jumbo jets with a saturn 5 booster wired to one side, on jupiter, and everyones fighting over who gets the joystick.

[StarSlayer]

I think the general pattern is cyclic. As soon as one party gains power, it immediately assumes blame for everything wrong with the world, and the other guys start gaining ground.

see i view the average voter in american politics much like a test pilot trying to get some prototype aircraft to fly straight and level. you can pull back on the stick and maybe go up or you can push and maybe go down. you dont like your altitude so you pull up, and nothing happens, so you pull up more and the aircraft lurches beyond its maximum angle of attack and you get a wing stall, which doesnt make the problem any better. so you gain your level flight path back, and decide your a little high, so you push on the stick and nothing happens, you push harder and you fall like a brick. test pilots call this a pilot induced oscillation, sometimes it flings one of them into the dirt at mach 2. the same thing happens with politics. voters dont like the state of the world, dont like all the pushy republicans trying to get there way so they vote democrat. then after awhile the moral norm degrades and our proud nation turns into a hedonistic party state. so the voter goes back to repulican because they think the librals have gone too far. only difference is theyre flying 7 zeplins duct taped to 4 jumbo jets with a saturn 5 booster wired to one side, on jupiter, and everyones fighting over who gets the joystick.

Sounds like we need "Tex" Johnston to fly the country then