Good reading on why so many exRepublicans voted Democrat

[Texas Diesel]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/08/Dobbs.Nov9/index.html

"While the Democratic Party was the clear winner, I don't believe for even a moment that the Democrats' ideals (mythology?) prevailed over Republican ideals (mythology?) . Election Day was middle-class America's declaration of independence from a Republican-led administration and Congress that for six years has been telling working men and women and their families in this country to shut up, listen up and go to hell.

The middle class just returned the favor and demonstrated discernment while delivering their loud message to Washington, D.C."

"And voters in six states, including Arizona, approved initiatives raising minimum wages for their lowest-paid citizens. Those six states -- Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Nevada and Arizona -- joined 23 other states and Washington, D.C., which have already raised their minimum wage requirements above that of the federal government. The Republican-led Congress refused for nearly a decade to raise the federal minimum wage, despite the fact that the minimum wage's purchasing power is now at the lowest point in more than 50 years and business profits are soaring."




That pretty much sums it up.

A great new era is dawning, an era of non co-operation with Mr Cheny (and the villiage idiot)