The political parallels between November 1946 and November 2006 are instructive for both parties. Sixty years ago, there was a general feeling of discontent with the country’s direction. Weighed down by a President whose approval ratings were stuck in the low 30s, his party lost control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate  for the first time in over a decade. Among the newly elected members of Congress were three – Joseph R. McCarthy, John F. Kennedy, and Richard M. Nixon — who would dominate American political life for the next 30 years. November 1946 was a momentous point in the Nation’s political history.

Two years after the revolution of 1946, however, the tables turned once again. The President successfully campaigned against a “Do Nothing Congress,” and control of both the House and Senate returned to his party. What an unhappy electorate giveth, an unhappy electorate can take away. Results are what counts.