Republicans want Dems to fail.  Republicans (and some "centrists") are saying the President lost Ted Kennedy's Massachuttets Senate seat to a Republican because he has been acting so "left".  We shouldn't listen to them.  The truth has far from it, the Presidents, and Congressional Democrats, have been acting like republican-lite (in Deans old words).  They have been the party of beyond comprimise and have dispressed voter turnout in their base for it.  If we followed the Repugs "advice"  we would even lose more elections (if that is even possible).  Voters wanted change.  Obama ran against Bush.  Yet he has been implimenting some of the same Bu$h policies like suspending habeous corpus.  The soultion is simple, Dems need to develop a backbone and stand up for the interests that elected them in to office.  Otherwise why should liberals vote?