Blue tsunami was about voter discontent

After a win as sweeping as Tuesday was for the Democratic Party nationally, Democrats representing Virginia and other states might imagine they hold an unlimited mandate for anything and everything they want to prioritize once they take control of Congress in January. It would likely be their swift undoing, as history affirms. In the enthusiasm wave elections like this generate, victors find it irresistible not to presume that voters emphatically validated all of their ideas. They did not. It is clear from Tuesday’s exit polls conducted by NBC News and other media groups that this was not so much a vote for Democrats as it was a referendum against a deeply disliked Republican president and a GOP Congress that failed to protect the public from his capricious, harmful actions.

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