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Yeggo Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 10:38 AM
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Election Postmortem: A Wave? Or an Undertow?
Sure, it's probably a little silver lining-ish, but looking at the seats Republicans flipped last night, how many were really STUNNING? During the Democratic ascendance, Dems were taking seats with 20 point Republican voter advantages. Last night, the most Democratic seat that went to the GOP was a D+4. Please read this before you consider last night's results the end of the world, because they're not. The vast majority of GOP wins were in districts where they were SUPPOSED to win:

http://conversation101.squarespace.com/generic-ballot/2010/11/3/election-postmortem-a-wave-or-an-undertow.html
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:09 AM
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1. Mostly just fart bubbles in a bathtub.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:12 AM
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2. Its not the wave that theM$M and the puke pundits
were talking, I got a lot less then they wanted.
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