Has one single DUer heard the Democratic gains in 2008 referred to as a "revolution"?

[CatWoman]

I was scrolling the TV Guide, and on C-Span 3, beginning at 11, "15th Anniversary of the 1994 Republican Revolution" will air.

I got to thinking -- not once have I heard anyone in the media refer to that monumental win as a "revolution".

Anyone?

[KittyWampus]

1. No, but it shocks me that hyperbole wasn't used for the big two governorships the Rplcns won

last week.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. It surely was used.

SNL even did a skit on it. So did Daily Show.

[CatWoman]

4. I think Kitty was employing sarcasm

I think :think:

[KittyWampus]

11. yes, but it was poorly done. Out of practice.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. LOL. Why would anyone mark that as an anniversary?

ZOMG. Congress changed hands. Wow.

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the day I first cleaned out my oven. Film at 11!

[CatWoman]

5. that's hilarious

DUers have such a great sense of humor :hi:

[Kdillard]

6. Of course not. The framing of anything positive for Democrats is usually negative.

[John Q. Citizen]

7. 2 points on the so-called Republican revolution of 1994, plus one point about 2008

1. The Republican voter turnout in 1994 was almost identical in number to the Republican voter turnout in 1990, the previous mid term. So what they refer to as the Republican Revolution was really the Republican stasis.

2. The reason it was confused as well as spun as a revolution was that due to a big drop in Democratic turn out at the polls, the Republicans took over both houses of congress for the first time since Eisenhower. Democrats who stayed home tended to be union and working class and did so because Clinton had shoved NAFTA down our throats, passing it with a minority of Democratic votes in congress.

When the Dems retook both houses in 2008 it hadn't been all that long (14 years) since they held both houses.

But it was a good size wave. The real story is the big drop in voters who call themselves Republican. Branding means a lot.

[pscot]

8. Seems more like another roadkill

with the same vultures feeding off the carcass.

[Flash Bazbo]

9. It was a Republican self-appellation like Michael Jackson calling himself King of Pop

Doesn't mean either one was true.

[Oregone]

10. The only revolution I see is the progressives getting steamrolled by the new centrist tent joiners

(with the aid of the ol centrists of course)

Bush was such a terrible president that he drove anti-taxers, anti-choicers, and pro-war hawks right into the Democratic tent. This is no longer FDR's party.