Well, that was disappointing. Disappointing and more serious than some of the surprisingly upbeat and even breezy commentary I’ve seen on may right-wing blogs.

The Republican party took a beating, lost the House, will probably lose the Senate and lost six governorships. Geographically, the party is being squeezed into the South, which will soon be its only area of strength if the trends that have been growing for up to decades (in the Northeast) aren’t turned around.

It is true that Iraq probably cost the party the election, along with the scanals and a perception that President George W. Bush’s administration has limited competence when it comes to governing the nation and its federal bureaucracy. While it may be possible for an energized Republican party to hold the White House and retake Congress in two years, it is also possible that voters decide the Democrats are pretty OK. Bear in mind that many voters probably associate Democrats with the happy go lucky years of the Bill Clinton Administration rather than with the dismal, bloody and costly failure of the Great Society.

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