While they may know that the two parties have very different solutions about the best way forward when it comes to the economy, the public simply doesn’t believe that anyone in office can make a real change for the better. That sentiment has borne itself out in each of the last three national elections — particularly at the House level where 2006, 2008 and 2010 each produced a wave dynamic … The wild swings in the electorate are directly attributable to a belief that neither party really knows what it’s doing and so once one side is given a chance for two years and nothing changes, voters — especially independents — are more than willing to give the other side a try. And then when that side produces few results, the cycle repeats itself. What does all that add up to in 2012? Volatility. Again.
— Chris Cillizza, writing in the Washington Post about the possibility that things will stay exactly the same, while others hope that the 2012 elections will return the government to its normal course of business.
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