I See This Election as a Progressive/Liberal Mandate

[stepnw1f]

A shift to the Left rather than the center. I ask you all this because I now believe this will be the Right Wing's major talking point: "Moderate Dems Won" to demean our many victories. What say you?

[William769]

1. Other.

It was a Democratic Mandate. meaning Liberal, Moderate and Conservative. I believe it was the big tent that let us win last night.

[EdwardM]

2. No, this was an antiwar and anti corruption mandate.

Many of our Democrats that won were social conservatives. All the antigay ballots passed. While the country is starting to see the error of the war, this is still a socially conservative country.

[Deep13]

3. Reaction to Bush failures and to corruption.

I suppose you can say it is a mandate for a more liberal agenda considering that anything anything to the left of the Ku Klux Klan is liberal in this country.

[valerief]

4. Anti-war, anti-corruption, anti-hypocrisy , anti-healthcare gouging,

anti-slave-pay, anti-free-trade/good-job-offshoring mandate