Midterm madness: it’s America the clueless

Midterm madness: it’s America the clueless
As for the Tea Party, they helped the Democrats hold on to the Senate
By Alexander Cockburn
LAST UPDATED 7:37 AM, NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The American people have spoken, but it's impossible to decode their incoherent message. Drunk with their capture of the House of Representatives, the Republicans thunder that the verdict of ballot boxes from Maine to Hawaii is clarion-clear: the ultimate evil in America is government, specifically government as led by President Barack Obama.

But when exit pollsters questioned voters on their way to those same ballot boxes, as to who should take the blame for the country's economic problems, 35 per cent said Wall Street, 30 per cent said Bush and 23 per cent Obama.

The American people want a government that mustn't govern, and a budget that must simultaneously balance and create jobs, cut spending across the board and leave the defence budget intact. Collectively, the election makes clear, they haven't a clue which way to march.

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Around midnight east coast time it became clear that Angle had gone down, victim of the political suicide she actually committed several days ago, by dint of one of the most racist, anti-Hispanic campaign ads in many years. It had escaped the attention of that supposedly consummate Republican political strategist Karl Rove – born in Sparks, Nevada - that the Hispanic vote in Nevada is not insignificant. Hispanics went for Reid (above) by a factor of about 90 per cent and he slid through to victory.

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