I have had a few days to consider the out come of Election 2006. The amazing fact of this election is that less than 35% of this countries citizens voted and that control of the senate came down to less than 10,000 votes. This in a country of 300 million. That means that the population of one large town, held the power to decide the course of this nation.
When one looks at the country colored by county it looks a lot more purple that red or blue. This in a country were only one out of three people vote. How would the map color change if we had more than 70% of us voting. Would it be more one or the other, or would the color blend even more.
Perhaps the reason so few of us vote is because we really don't have a political party that represent the true feeling of the US voters. Why can't the moderates of both the Republican and Democratic parties come together on there common ground and have a moderate party, and leave the extremes to the two parties we now have.
The Neo-Republicans could pursue their far right agenda and the Neo-Democrats could define what a liberal agenda really is without everyone that isn't a republican being defined as a liberal. Leaving the majority of voters that are moderates be just that, moderate. Then if one or the other party wants to get a issue pasted or introduced into the public debate then they would need the participation of the moderates to get support into the political arena.
