How did those who voted for the bailout get re-elected? conspiracy?

I've been thinking about this, and it may be quite a stretch, so bear with me, and we will give it a day in court.
okay:
1.Democrats controlled congress coming up to this election
2.95% of americans opposed the bailout and they voted for it anyway
3.Obama is a democrat, and the powers that be knew that many of his voters would be FIST TIME voters
4.there was much talk about not re-electing the congress men and women who voted for this without our consent, they had to ensure that: a)many people voting for him would be uneducated about the bailout b.)we would be so caught up on the first black president and the issues that come along with it that some would forget about not re-electing the horrible representation
now is it possible that the Dems knew way ahead of time that a bailout bill was coming from Bush, and they knew the public would be very angry when they voted against our will, so they chose Obama as their man because it would dramaticly increase their chance to get back into office?
I've been slamming me head against the keyboard trying to figure out how these criminals got back into office when WE KNEW, and even discussed not re-ellecting them, they KNEW how we felt about the issue, and ignored us. How did they just get right back in? Does it go without saying that the new voters just said "well i like obama, he's a democrat, i'll just vote for all democrats." and that is how they got back into power?
I mean, how can we complain about them and what they did, and then not hold them accountable as voters? I hate to say it america, but we had our chance to get them back for this, and we failed.

[edit on 14-11-2008 by Enigma Publius]

I'd like to believe that it was some conspiracy that allowed these people to stay in office, but unfortunately I think it's much simpler than that.

People as a whole were so upset with the way the neocon Republicans ran things, the U.S. voting nearly all Democrat was simply backlash.

Now, a deeper conspiracy methinks is that all these neocons started in or have Democrat ideals, yet they label themselves Republican. Could it be that Democrat idealists jumped ship to the Republican party, completely drowned out and discredited TRUE conservative Republicans, engineer this backlash, all to begin an ACCEPTED drive to socialism? Makes me wonder

Sorry for that run on sentence. I tried to break it up and it just didn't impart the gravity of my theory. I should have been an English major.

reply to post by midnightbrigade

hmmmm...this is much to think about, i'll have to do some more searching before i can answer you on that one. But like yourself i sure do wish it was a conspiracy instead of just plain ignorance on part of the voters. why do you suppose this thread isn't getting more attention, seems to be the million dollar question to me. After all, you can find dozens of threads moaning about this bailout, i wonder how many of those same people complaining vooted their congressman back in.

I don't see a conspiracy here. I think when it came down to voting a couple of things happened. And I am generalizing a bit, but here goes... Hardcore Republicans voted for Republicans running for Congress, as usual. Hardcore Democrats voted Democrats in, just as they usually do. Moderates and Independents who were sick of the Bush administration and thereby the Republicans in general voted Dem, unless there was a particular candidate they liked regardless of party.

But what this really boils down to is that most voters are uninformed voters. A lot of people I know who voted could not even tell you about the policies of the presidential candidates and what their voting records were. I can assure you they did not look into voting records and views of the people running for "lower" offices. I know that sounds lazy, but it is true; and frankly, the way those propositions read it is tiresome to even figure them out. I have a girl's dinner that I go to on Mondays and we went over the propositions together. A friend of mine who works in the courts voted on judges; I did not.

It's funny, because I always thought that local representatives have more of an impact on our communities than the president does. Oh, and I did vote for someone who voted for the bailout. Not because I agreed with it, but because 1) That bailout was inevitable and 2) he does a lot with legislation to support the troops.