Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Shoot Down The Meme
Time to drown this one in the bathtub.

We heard this starting last night during our brief sojourn into CNN territory last night. I promise you, they will try to make it the CW. The short version: "if when we lose we win!":
Somebody really needs to put a lid on the almost scarily synchronized spin that Democrats won only by running a bunch of conservative candidates. The numbers just don't bear this out. Most of the Dem pickups were in moderate-to-liberal areas with moderate-to-liberal candidates. There were a few rightish Dems who won, but there are always a few rightish Dems who win in rightish regions. There's really nothing new here. What's more, a quick look at the exit poll data indicates pretty clearly that Dems won by sweeping the independent vote, not by picking up conservatives or frequent churchgoers or any of the other traditional Republican blocs. The overall composition of the party will remain center-left with very little change.
Written at 10:01 AM by Greyhair.
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