Person of the Year 2006 - nominees

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Always possible is something done, like:

Independent/Swing/Moderate/Centrist Voters
Conservative/Moderate Democrats
Democrats (in general)

Or, most nauseatingly:

The Voters

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Rick Santorum (he deserves something for all his amazing work)

Eh...that's a bit of a stretch for a Person of the Year spot but if he would have somehow won and the GOP kept control of both the House and the Senate then the choice would make sense.

Damn, the only other person on the forum that still likes Santorum and you dont' even support this nomination

Person of the Year to a senator who didn't do much extra this year besides losing?  POTY is not a consolation prize, or at least it shouldn't be.

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Nancy Pelosi. She's the first female Speaker in history, and she represents the Democratic resurgence.

One election cycle where you didn't do as good as history suggests you should does not = resurgence

There is nothing in the definition of the word "resurgence" that says that it has to be sustained for a significant period of time to be a resurgence.

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Nancy Pelosi. She's the first female Speaker in history, and she represents the Democratic resurgence.

One election cycle where you didn't do as good as history suggests you should does not = resurgence

There is nothing in the definition of the word "resurgence" that says that it has to be sustained for a significant period of time to be a resurgence.

It still really implies that and that you exceeded expectations, the only thing the Democrats did was stop themselves from dismembering

They exceeded my expectations and probably the expectations of most predictors, although not significantly.

But, no, that's not what it implies.  It implies what the word means, which is a surge (which tend to be sudden) back.  A resurgence doesn't have to be unexpected.  That's...non-sense.