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Originally Posted by Repo
Maybe the extremes in both parties are taking over or it is a referendum on the president...
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I think it's both. Since Clinton's impeachment we've seen the two major parties become more and more extreme in their platforms. Both parties understand that when it comes to nominating a presidential candidate they have to choose moderates from within their respective parties, and that explains why the last two elections have been so evenly split. But in local districts they're nominating more extreme candidates. For the past decade votes in Congress have almost always broken down along party lines, and both houses are so self-involved that they don't notice what the president is doing unless they have a politically expedient reason to do so. The extreme right indicts Bush for not being a neo-conservative, while the extreme left indicts Bush for employing neocons in his administration. Both extremes are consolidating their power and both are using Bush as their whipping boy.