Republican Victories Represent A "Historic Wave"

Fox News reports that "Republicans thundered into the majority in the House of Representatives Tuesday night, making historic gains by a proportion not seen in more than 70 years."

Roughly 70 years ago Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President of the United States, and in 1938 after eight years of New Deal policies that h...ad not gotten America out of the Great Depression (and UCLA economists now believe it actually prolonged it by 7 years, see http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx), Americans went out and voted in large numbers for the Republicans (they did even better than the Republicans last night, picking up 71 House seats along with 6 Senate seats).

Some questions worth thinking about: Any parallel between the American response to the domestic policies of FDR and Obama in these two elections? With the outbreak of WWII the country once again rallied around FDR, and justifiably so as the 1930s Republican isolationism was a drastic (though understandable) error, so does this mean something as drastic will be necessary to save Obama from losing in 2012?
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