Edited sentence: Anti-war Democrats defeated incumbent pro-war "Stay the course" Republicans.As of the fall of 2007, polls show that a majority of Americans do not support the Iraq War.The 2006 midterm elections were a referendum on Bush and Iraq.Through 2005 and 2006, Americans increasingly became to feel that the war was a mistake, that America was not safer from terrorism because of the war in Iraq, and that President Bush's policies were failing the American people