America Throws Bush, Rove, and Cheney Overboard in Voting for Change

The conventional analysis of how Democrats would retake the House last night was that multiple Republican seats would be picked up in the “blue” states of New York and Connecticut. Few thought Democrats would defeat three Republican incumbents in the “red” state of Indiana, both Republicans in New Hampshire, and that Kansas of all places would unseat a Republican for whom President Bush came out to campaign the weekend before the election.

Guess Howard Dean knew what he was talking about when he said Democrats must become competitive in all 50 states. A Democrat even has an outside chance to win the final vote in Wyoming of all places.

Not surprisingly, even before most races were called the folks at NPR and other media outlets were interpreting the election in the most conservative terms possible. They talked about how Democrats were now running on religious and spiritual issues, ignoring the fact that what most linked Democrats was a demand for economic fairness. For all the talk about new Ohio Governor Ted Strickland being a minister, ignored was the powerful economic populism of Sherrod Brown, who won an Ohio Senate seat.

The national media simply cannot accept that voters realize they have been played the fool by Bush and the Republican Congress on economic issues. Most voters don’t follow the Dow Jones average, but they do follow the fact that billions in tax cuts went to the wealthy rather than the middle and working class.

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