Well, John... It is said that folks vote their pocketbooks and though Iraq has given folks pause to examine their political affiliations it is MO that Bush and the current batch of Congressional Repubs were going to be in trouble anyway... The working class has come to realize that the "fix is in" and the Repubs, being in power for so long, are being seen as the bad guys...

It isn't about governemnt making life painless... It's about being treated fairly and not being taken advantage of by the ruling class...

Janie,

Of course you are correct in the reality that the monied class held power in the early going... It's just, in some ways, gotten worse as more folks have been franchised only to see the monied class trying to take it back, piece by piece...

Bobert