EVEN CANADIANS ARE DUMBFOUNDED ABOUT HOW AMERICAN CITIZENS CAN VOTE OUT THE DEMOCRATS OUT OF OFFICE–MAYBE BECAUSE THE AMERICAN CITIZEN HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THE LIES AND MISDIRECTION OF PRETENSE THAT WAS SUPPOSE TO HAVE HELP THE US ECONOMY BUT INSTEAD THESE CORRUPT DEMOCRATS ARE OUT FOR DEMSELVES BY FLEECING THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS WITH OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING QUADRUPLING THE DEFICIT SINCE THEY HAVE TAKEN POWER OVER THE LAST 6 YEARS–FROM THE LIKEs OF HARRY REID AND NANCY PELOSI–WHO CLAIMS MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY

….Democrats (and much of the media) were stunned by the pounding the Republicans inflicted in the midterms. Their predicted wave turned into a tsunami. Republicans won almost every race for senator and governor across the country. As one MSNBC commentator gloomily pronounced, “The Obama era is over.”

Lots of people blame President Barack Obama, who dragged the Democrats down like a pair of cement booties. He’s so unpopular that a lot of Democratic candidates told him to stay away. But could something else be going on as well? Could it be that Republicans (some of them, at least) understand the voters better?

Take Wisconsin, a swing state where the Democrats launched a full-frontal assault on Republican Governor Scott Walker. Mr. Walker had the audacity to take on the state’s public-sector unions and roll back their pension benefits and wages. To most of the Canadian media and The New York Times, Mr. Walker is right-wing arch-villain. To most Wisconsin voters, he’s a pragmatic reformer. It was supposed to be a squeaker, but he won handily.

Down in Florida, Charlie Crist, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, lost to his exceptionally unlikeable opponent, Rick Scott. Mr. Scott campaigned on being good for business. Mr. Crist campaigned on climate change. The trouble is, nobody in Florida gives a rat’s wazoo about climate change, least of all the Hispanic and black voters he needed to elect him. They stayed home.

The Republicans did other things right. They weeded out the loony-tunes candidates and largely dropped their so-called war on women. (The Democrats continued to fight them on it, which just made them look silly.) The Democrats’ edge with women is eroding, while white men are voting Republican by a margin of 65 to 35 per cent. The Republicans are said to have a women problem – but you could also say that the Democrats have a men problem….

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