[Hoot Gibson]

I think, if you look, the valley between the rich and middle started somewhere around Reaganomics. This void didn't start with, or grow under Obama. He has been fixing things, although I'll concede that he isn't doing it fast enough for you guys. As the saying goes, republicans drove us to near depression under Bush, but republicans are mad because Obama is slow to fix their mess. The republican voting slogan, "We put America in an almost depression, Obama isn't fixing it fast enough, so elect us again, to fix our mess." You have even stated on this forum about Obama's "slow recovery", when your guy screwed America's eyes out. Back to the rich/middle discussion, tax codes, and other things implemented by republicans, that cater to the rich, plus no wage increases for the poor and middle, are the reason the gulf is getting wider, and upward mobility is getting harder. If the rich are the only ones making money, the middle will die(and it's already shrinking), and America dies with them.

Average wages have dropped under Obama. Part-jobs have been rapidly replacing permanent jobs and the number of people in this country who are not participating in the labor force has never been higher. We can debate these facts in the appropriate forum if you want, but the state of the economy is one of the main factors that voters dumped so many of Obama's supporters from office on Tuesday.

A deep recession, or as you put it an "almost depression" has always been followed by a robust recovery - until now. The result is that there will be more Republicans in the House of Representatives in 2015 than at any time during the past 84 years. Had gas prices still been hovering near $4/gallon, imagine how bad it might have been for Democrats. Timing is everything in politics and it is a bad time to be a Democratic politician.