Uh, uh, Little Round Top. Pickett's Charge will be Nov. 2012.
Roundtop was the midterms.
Nov 2012 will be Appomattox Courthouse.
You assume that progressives will give up if they are soundly defeated at the polls. They won't. They will never be defeated. They will change tactics, and we already see flashes of their next strategy in the mob violence they have organized in state and federal office buildings.
Like all evil, we can only hope to hold it at bay for as long as possible.