Oh someone missed the Daily Show. Not sure how much you can logically deduce about "changing" sentiments in American thought due to such few elections haha. Actually I know you can't logically deduce anything from it so really this is illogical. Congratulate those who won and simply leave it at that.
We'll all know more by the elections of 2010 whether actual sentiments are changing. However I would like to introduce you to the "rally" effect. Essentially the party who wins the president usually gains seats in that election. This is due to independents/moderates "rallying" with the hype and times. But during the midterm elections there is not so much hype and the winning party loses these voters. What does it mean? It generally means that the president's party loses seats in the midterm. Think this has happened almost every time aside from 2002 and during FDR's presidency where they actually gained a few seats. Special cases due to events that had huge media hype (Depression and 9/11).
The point is you have to take this into account when you do see what happens in the Midterm election of 2010.
But obviously you can't take too much out of any of these. Really I think the whole media frenzy over these things here are because they have nothing else to talk about. Trust me if Michael Jackson had died now instead of in the summer this would have had no coverage. Goes to show you just a little about American media.
But yea seriously check out the Daily Show for today or online... pretty humorous take on all of this haha.
