Living in a foreign country often gives someone some opportunities to dispel myths that people have about my country. In this paticular case I'm talking about the recent election. Or at least, if I'm not dispelling a myth, I'm taking a different approach than what's normally understood.
My take on it all is this: It's not really surprsing at all. From what I can tell, this is being treated as some grand revolution that's shocked the world, much like the republican win during Clinton's last mid-term election. Well, I hate to contradict people, but to me, this seems the same, business as usual cycle. I mean, has the president's party EVER kept control during the mid-term of his second term? I don't think so. So why is everyone acting like this is a major thing?
Okay, you have some what of an argument for it saying 'the president has lost the people's confidence' but even that's not much to me. I mean, people are so wishy washy on everything (even me) that it means beans about 'peoples confidence' as a real indicator of anything.
After all, in the early 90s people swore that 7-up was the greatest "uncola" and after a year long advertising blitz, sprite dominates.
But hey, that's just my opinion
Actually the Republicans took over the House and the Senate two years into Clinton's eight year in office, and held them until this year. Ann Coulter's take is pretty much the same as yours--that it's amazing the Democrats didn't win more given the historical trends for mid-term elections.
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