What the 2006 Election Taught Us
1) Most incumbants had nothing to worry about. No, it didn't even matter whether they were Democrats or Republicans. Good thing we've used campaign finance reform to make these elections more competitive.
2) Electronic voting was an absolute failure. Even if the most perfect system was designed, it would still be a complete failure...and none of the systems designed so far have been perfect in any way. In fact, they've been complete disasters. I love computers and technology as much, if not more, than the next person, but they cannot be used to annonymously record votes. They can help make the election process better, but we need to re-imagine how they can best be used.
3) Republicans can screw up their campaigns with scandals and shoddy strategy too. All the Democrats had to do was sit back, say that the Republicans were smelly, war-mongering, child-molesting evil-doers, and the voters said, "You're right! You must be better by comparison!"
4) We're a long way from 1994. I'm hoping this was the death-knell of neo-conservatism, the worst ideology to make it's way into the 21st century. Here's hoping that the Republicans remember some of their roots.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 11/14/2006 || link
