Strategery

Most of the exit polling from the election shows that the biggest issue for voters was Iraq and the direction (or lack thereof) of the war effort. People think we are losing and America does not like losers; plain and simple. If the President had done something concrete to alter course, say firing Rumsfeld before the election, I bet the Senate and maybe the House could have been retained by the Republicans. But Bush decided against that action. Instead, he lied about his intentions to keep Rummy around, and in doing so, cost his party at least one house of Congress.

Dumb.

FWIW - my election prediction of 28 pickups in the House and 5 in the Senate was pretty damn good. As of today, the Dems are up 29 in the House (with a few still outstanding) and 6 in the Senate.