Libertarians for Ron Paul

The Voters’ Message to Republicans

“Voters sent a big message to Republicans last week. Combined with the equally large Democratic victory in 2006, Republicans have now lost the presidency, more than 50 House seats, and at least a dozen seats in the Senate in just two years. This is the biggest back-to-back defeat that any party has suffered since the 1930s.”

“The message was not a call for bigger government. In fact, even as voters were electing Barack Obama and enlarging Democratic majorities in Congress, exit polls still showed that a 49-46 percent plurality of voters believed that government was “doing too much” as opposed to “should be doing more.” Given that exit polls have a tendency to oversample Democrats, the actual margin in favor of smaller government was probably larger.”

Full post by Michael Tanner @ http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9779