Election 2010: Younger voters not so eager this time

Joe and I have been predicting this for a year. But the Democrats repeatedly told us 1) we were nuts, and 2) the base would rally, come the elections. They're not rallying. And the elections are only two months away.

People voted for change. They voted for a fundamental transformation of our country. All the elements were in place to achieve just that. And what happened? We got a run of the mill Democrat in the White House, and a run of the mill Democratic congress. Both of which are surely better than their regular counterparts, but that's not what we were promised. We weren't promised "better than McCain." We were promised change. Any Democrat would have been better than McCain. Barack Obama was supposed to be different.

It's not simply that real change never happened. Our politicians, once in office, never seemed terribly interested in change ever happening at all. They ran on change, yet they ruled on incrementalism. And while incremental change is all well and good when you can't get anything better, it's a cop out when you could possibly get more, simply by trying, and you never do.