Some political pundits are predicting that 2012 will be yet another so called "wave" election, as the American public continues to be frustrated and act fickle at the polls.
If so, it would be the fourth straight time that's happened in national elections, with a big anti-George W.Bush fervor allowing the Democrats to take over the House and Senate in 2006, strengthen those margins in the election that brought Barack Obama to power in 2008, followed by the powerful repudiation of the Obama/Democratic party agenda in 2010.
The question that nobody seems to know the answer to in terms of 2012, however, is which party will be on the winning side of that next wave.
One thing is for certain however, at least according to one national poll in the summer of 2011. That is that after the debt ceiling imbroglio, "the folks" as Bill O'Reilly describes the public, aren't feeling much love for the GOP, or the Tea Party in particular.
This article appears in Aug 11-17, 2011.