The Home-Strech

In less than 40 hours, the first voters will queue up in New Hampshire and New York and touch their ballot screens either the red way or the blue way. In less than two days, Obama will know whether his domestic policies, healthcare and economy have all worked. He will know whether his presidency for the next two years is going to be hard or very hard( it won't be easy for sure). There is little doubt in the fact that republicans will wrestle the house from the democrats and there is almost similar confidence that the democrats will keep the senate albiet with lesser seats. Their hopes of a filibuster-proof Senate and the house is diminishing by the day. Their progressive policies of energy and education reform are in shambles. As we enter the home strech of this elections, the final path, we know that the republicans who looked to reign supreme o'er the lands in the past and failed are now closer than ever to doing so. That the hope that galvanized Americans to come and vote democrat has turned into hopelessness for the democrats. From the pinnacle of their political stage two years ago, when it seemed that for the first time after FDR, democrats were closer than ever to a landslide, democrats are in the abyss looking for hope in place of despair. I am a democrat and for many days I've been saying that democrats can come back, yes they can. But now that hope seems to have blown away. But maybe, maybe just like 1994 became 2006 one day, 2010 will become the impetus for a future electoral triumph. Or maybe republicans will be able to change their party and their picture and paint a new GOP and new America and maybe then we'll no longer look at them with scorn. The answer will not come in 2 days, but the foundation for that answer will be laid in next 48 hours.