Republicans spent a fortune.  Businessmen spend money to make money.  The upper classes spend money to save the Bush tax giveaways and  the other subsidies of corporate welfare  that has givden them so much for so long.

Less than 40 percent of the eligible voters voted.

Here in New Jersey, labor supported candidates withstood the tide but the Democratic organizations were more interested in local patronage, freeholders, mayors, etc.

The Republicans won in the industrial districts of the Middle West, Western Pennsylvania, etc, where the stimulus was  a liability not an asset, given unemployment and economic stagnation.

Obama should see the results as a challenge and begin to draw a line against  all Republican House initiatives today. If he acts like Truman on domestic policies in 1947-1948, opposing the Republicans down the line, rather than Clinton in 1995-96, collaborating with them, he can not only win for himself for for the program on which he was elected.

The Republican House will be reactionary, meaning it will learn nothing, forget nothing, and try to do what it did in the Bush years. 

We can learn, push them back, and seriouly defeat them in 2012.