This is ProgressiveTokyo blogging from November 2010, and yes I`m still here in Tokyo.
I`ve been watching the mid-term elections from over here and I`m hoping to add some perspective to the massive landslide victory across all the states for the Republican party.
Who would have thought that only 2 years ago we were dancing in the streets, laughing, glorious in our victory after 8 long years (more so when we count from the Republican revolution of 1994) of insanity. We had won, the world was at our fingertips.
We had worked hard, making phone calls (for many of us here well into the night due to the time differences), organized voter registrations, knocked on doors all in the hope of Change.
But then came the long hard slog of 2009 and the disillusionment of many of us on the left.
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