@parados,
Perhaps some of you didn't noitice, but after the 2008 presidential election the Democrats had strong majorities in both houses of Congress and a then very popular new president who had to a remarkable degree captured the aspirations of many people with his (vacuous it turned out) mantra of hope and change.
In the next election the Democrats lost a commanding majority in the House of Representatives and saw their Majority in the Senate fall to a very narrow level (narrow enought to prompt them to change the rules in the Senate for confirming appointees). In the most recent election the Democrat minority in the House of Representatives grew even smaller and, more significantly, they lost their majority in the Senate, in both cases by much larger margins that they, and most unbiased forecasters, had predicted.
I suppose if one is in the grip of serious denial, the recent election can be seen as a single event with no antecedant. However, the obvious facts testify otherwise.
Beyond that. the self absorption of the self-appointed progressive "elite" and their contempt for both our political traditions and the people whose lives they presume to guide appears to have become far more evident in the public perception. I can't prove this latter point, but my strong impression is that their political support is unraveling even in some formerly reliable quarters. Several of the recent Senate election outcomes are strongly suggestive of this.
