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With national balloting looming next year and a presidential election in 2008, Tuesday's setbacks are viewed as a bad omen for President George W. Bush's floundering party, and consequently are a hopeful sign for opposition Democrats eager to reclaim the White House and US Congress.

That has got to be the most asinine statement I've ever heard a journalist make. Off year elections are not nearly as important as national elections, but the democrats are already spinning, spinning, spinning away.

...but the democrats are already spinning, spinning, spinning away.

The media had two sets of stories ready to go well before the election.

If the Republicans won either governor race, that race would have been buried and relegated to a quick blurb. The same if the ballot issues failed in Ohio and passed in Texas and California.

If the Democrats won either or both races and the ballot issues passed in Ohio and failed in Texas and California, then it would be front page news and trumpeted as the second coming of the Democrat Party.