Given that virtually everyone that lost were the moderates who were voting with Republicans, and that the difference was not the people who voted, but the people who voted previously that stayed home this time, it absolutely isnt a repudiation of his policies - Unless you mean that the policies didnt go far enough to the left, in which case you'd be partially correct.
A lot of the left werent happy that, for instance, nearly the entirety of the health care bill are Republican ideas.
That article has some good comments, it's surprising to say that on the Internet.
GOP voters don’t have policy views, they have a tribal affiliation. They were sad that their tribe lost in ’08; yesterday, enraged by the Democrats’ enacting of the health insurance policy that the GOP had proposed in 1994, they turned out big.
When you have a significant portion of the population believe that Obama is a Muslim, their taxes are higher under Obama,the HCR will send old people to death panel or that Obama spends 200 million a day on an India trip,, it's hard to make the case that people "get it".
This goes back to an exchange we had a while back:
IRHari, did you see O'Reilly vs. Stossel the other night? I knew BillO wasn't in favor of pot legalization/decriminalization. The guy openly lauded Singapore's prison state system of removing drug users from society.