Two Perspectives on the Looming Election Tsunami

These two articles, here and here, present two reasoned and reasonable perspectives on the coming election this Tuesday and its probable aftermath.  In the first article Pat Cadell and Roger Shoen, two democrat pollsters for a long time, weigh in on why they are so discouraged by the Obama presidency and why he has betrayed true liberals like them with his conduct in the WH.  Essentially they say he has been the most divisive president since Nixon and that he campaigned to be the most inclusive.  It's safe to say this is the view of centrist democrats, which these guys are.  The second article is a particularly enlightening article by WSJ's John Fund.  His subject is Brian Baird, another centrist who represented his district in Washington State for 12 years and is retiring at the age of 56.  Baird has had it withthe rank partisanship in Washington and in particular in his own democrat party.  Baird voted for Obamacare and all the other socialist plans put forth by the dems and proceeds in this article to provide reasons why these were flawed programs in spite of his support for them.  It pretty much sounds like he was pressured by unions and one wonders if he just caved and then decided to retire after having second thoughts.  He sounds like a reasonable sort but his vote for those programs in spite of their flaws makes one wonder if he has a backbone.