They slowed it themselves, by overreach and fracture and dysfunctionality — which they engineered themselves. This has been the case for weeks.

The public is increasingly concerned by what they have been doing.

And the far left is not happy, either, at what they see is stalled “progress.”

(It was great listening to Ed Schultz yesterday afternoon!)

Of course it is. He might be right here or there superficially, but he's frequently out of touch with what's really going on, and is substituting his DC “Capital” Liberal Establishment Roman Vista of the Provincial Peasantry, and his politically-motivated wishful thinking for reality time after time.

The vote everywhere was largely about nation-wide issues. (The Dem mouthpieces promply claimed falsely that everywhere it was primarily about local issues.) #1 by far was the economy and jobs. #2, well behind, was health care, and the rest were insignificant compared to the first two. This was also a protest vote against the Dems' misbehavior, and was not a “refrendum on Obama” only, but on all the Dems in DC, in general. Even that doesn't explain everything. The New Jersey case actually involved two local issues of special interest, corruption and high property taxes, even more than the big nation-wide issues; the notorious New York contest (hyped by Dem mouthpieces and mis-described) featured a protest vote, likely against outsider interference, in the form of significant votes for the GOP candidate who quit the contest and endorsed the Democrat. And nation-wide, there was a disparity in the voter turnout — non-liberal voter turnout was noteworthy (with independents voting GOP typically by two to one for Democrats, proportionally), but so was the poor youth-vote and other strong-Obama-voter turnout. It would have been different had these people (who were complacent, or as confused or as incoherent as the Dems in Washington have been in recent weeks) had been more active.

It's crap.

The real reason people turned away the Conservative Party in New York was because they didn't want to play the obvious game that the two parties were playing. The CP tried to undermine the GOP. The Dems were just plugging along with some left-of-center schmuck. The GOP right-wing decided to pressure a moderate out. Then the PEOPLE said, “bull” to all of it, and elected the Democrat (who had the lowest numbers from the get-go).

People nationwide are tired of these games. It makes it all too obvious that both parties are screwed up beyond recognition.

The democratic party left me a long time ago, bro.

Blue Dog jackasses are spoiling the democrat party from within. It is failure to get bills passed caused by a few “blue dog” democrats that have caused a lack of confidence in this administration.

Fine. Purge the Blue Dogs.

We do not need this crap in the party anyway.

Maybe the stage is being set for a new 3rd party? Nah… that would be too much to hope for.

Something the D's had better keep in mind, and that is the quickness with which the youth vote can become disillusioned and opt out. More dynamic leadership, more action, more spine would help that.

I watched Christie's acceptance speech last night and the people in the audience reminded me of the pool-hall boys Samantha Bee [Daily Show] interviewed in her hilarious skit. It sounded like they were cheering on a NASCAR hero instead of a governor. I wonder if they can tell the difference when it comes to their own wellbeing? Let's say they're a little shortsided. And there were personal matters, difficulties with the incumbant that were more reflective of local issues and not reflective of “how the nation sees the democratic administration”..fer cryin' out loud..lol..

Nice try though. And if this article serves to pump the momentum at and just left of center to keep up the good fight against the neocons, then it serves a good purpose.