Paul Krugman's new blog, announced a couple posts ago (i.e. yesterday), has a juicy item that may help explain why we are so disappointed that this Congress has not ended the war and accomplished a lot of other progressive goals.
It reminds us that the popular vote in 2006 was a landslide victory for the Democrats. This was only 10 months ago -- we remember; it has not been dumped from folk memory. We also remember how we thought it would add up to a lot of change, which hasn't materialized.
Krugman's short post compares the 2006 result with the Republicans' sweep in 1994, which the media made out to be a tidal wave. The Democrats' popular vote for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 had a margin almost 2 percentage points higher than that 1994 result, but the media didn't play it up so strongly, for some reason.
Here's the link to the Krugman piece.
Do we remember how we felt going up to the 2006 election? A little apprehensive, maybe? Uncertain how well the Democrats would do? Some confidence, but not a lot? Now, how do we feel about the approaching 2008 election? Trying to avoid over-confidence, I'd say.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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