The Day After

Yesterday, all across the Nation, millions of American citizens split their votes between Republican and Democrat candidates.  For some reason, these particular citizens voted for a Democrat to represent them in the House then turned around and voted for a Republican to represent them in the Senate.

Why?  Why would they do that?

What were they hoping to accomplish?  Didn’t they know that by splitting their votes they were creating a Stalemate?

Did they deliberately want to create a Stalemate, or were they hoping their split would somehow force the two Parties to work together?

Of those two choices, the more appealing would be to say that they were trying to force the two Parties to work together because it “feels good” emotionally.  Since this last election was so contentious, splitting the vote could be compared to children asking their parents to stop fighting by giving one vote to mommy and the other vote to daddy.  Can’t we all just get along?  I’m sure that’s the way some will try to spin it.

I, on the other hand, don’t think that’s the case.  My capacity for Analysis won’t let me do that; I won’t take the easy way out.

I think we had the results that we had because a large portion of the electorate is actually Oblivious to the Vision each Party has for America.

And whose fault is that?