Apparently, it's good to revisit this post every two years.
2010 midterms
The midterms have essentially ended any prospect for substantial progressive legislation for at least two years and probably longer, so progressive infighting will only intensify. Many critiques of Obama from.
No need to be fighting like this: With tea party-backed candidates going down in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada, depriving Republicans of what would have been a 50-50 Senate, a bloc.
O'Donnell and Angle may well have been decisive in allowing the Dems to keep the Senate. And while at least Delaware is a blue state available for personal reasons, it's amazing that any Republican could lose a reddish purple state with 14% unemployment. For a...
Discuss the atrocities. Remember, not very Republican will be able to party like he or she is Carl Paladino. Take Carl Paladino, for instance. Please! ...see Kilgore's useful guide. ...ack,.
Silver has it. I'll say GOP +61 in the House, GOP +7 in the Senate (Dems upset in Colorado, GOP wins the other leaners/sure things, Rubio wins FLA.)
In the interests of compliance with the Pundit-Blogger Accountability Act of 2010, here are my revised election predictions. For the Senate I'm going to go wildly optimistic: Dems -6, winning both Colorado and Illinois, but losing Nevada. For the House, I dunno: Maybe -56? And...
Although there will be an inevitable rush among Beltway journalists to turn this into a "Democrats are dropping like flies!" narrative (see a classic example here), I endorse all of.