It is true, as the WSWS notes, the election was a repudiation of Bush policies and of the rightward drift of the past thirty years, but I have said for quite some time that if the GOP lost, it was because they intended to. Obama's win was NOT in the Democratic Party's best interest, for there will be intense pressure put on him to change course, not something he is naturally inclined to do. It would have been much better for McCain to have inherited the mess and return with a better candidate in 2012.
The GOP threw this election, plain and simple. Now if by some miracle Obama actually succeeds in turning this country around, the GOP's gamble will not pay off in four years. But I doubt he will, for the problems are structural.
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