Well... blast

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On the good side, the single-party lock on executive and legislative branches has been broken. Excellent. That was entirely too lopsided.

On the bad side, a single party now controls (barely) both halves of the legislative branch... and in two years it's almost certain they'll hold the executive branch as well...

...and we'll be right back where we started. Crap. Watch the insanity begin again as The Other White Meat begins *their* feeding frenzy.

Can a brother get some *balance*??

All I can hope for is that in two years the Congress splits again.

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My perspective is that actuallly the "middle/independents" came out from underneath their damn propaganda induced stupor/rock and went wtf and how did I get here? by not paying attention... But in more typical times the middle has usually prevailed by splitting the exec and leg branches.

I am not necessarily convinced that the dems have a lock on both the executive and legislative branches in 08. 1. the dems have approximately 12 months to prove that they can keep it together and be disciplined legislators--never an easy task. and 2. Neither party has a truly viable candidate. Hillary and McCain are lightening rods for controversy. McCain is a lot more conservative than most people realize and folks who might have supported him previously--might feel burned by the lies that bush &co have espoused--the wolf in sheeps clothing scenario as it were. And Hillary is hillary. You want to talk about polarization. Put together the "dream" tix of obama and hil and lets see what happens.

I love hillary--always have--but she won't be the 1st female prez of the US, it could be Ms Nancy "2 heartbeats away" Pelosi. Now that would be worth the price of admission to to some of the uber conservative places in the country, if it ever happened. Oh Darth Cheney is thundering around his undisclosed location over that one. Just don't go hunting with him Nancy;)

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*lol* True. :)

The polarization drives me *insane*... we've got 5% at either end driving the bus for the other 90%. (Call it 10%/80% if you want, but it's still all out of proportion...) There's really no need for it... except that we're locked into this kamikaze course thanks to an entrenched two party system mentality. :P

ANYwho...

I think you're right about the middle going "Whaaaaa?", but I do believe that the middle is much larger than either party wants to believe. They each like to think that they represent 45% of the US, with their opponent being a paltry 15%, and all they have to do is get a quarter of the remainder to win. In reality, I think the party rhetoric exemplifies that 5-10% on each end, and the majority of most folks look at both ends of the spectrum like they're the cross-eyed cousins at the family reunion. Yeah, they're technically family, but... yeesh.

We're just one big dysfunctional family letting the drunk uncles steer the dinner conversation.