Well, it's not 1994, do you know where your independent voters are?
There is a growing sense among those who pay even the slightest attention to politics that 2006 could become a watershed election year that will echo the voter revolution of 1994.
A refresher course: 1994 was a midterm election that followed a series of highly publicized legal and ethical misdeeds by congressional leaders in the party that controlled both houses of Congress.
It produced a revolution. Republicans took an astonishing 52 seats in the House previously held by Democrats, gaining control of the House for the first time in 60 years. In California, the GOP tide was so strong, Republicans captured all but two statewide offices and gained a tenuous majority in the state Assembly.
Twelve years later, there are early signs that the same dump-the-incumbent sentiment is roiling in the body politic, with one major difference. This time around, it's the Republicans who control everything in Washington... [more]
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