Posted on 11/08/2006 5:53:30 AM PST by arroyob
judicial committees.
Democratic Tester
195,235 49%
Republican Burns
(Incumbent)
193,506 48%
Libertarian Jones
10,188 3%
99% precincts reporting - Updated: 10:57 a.m. ET
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The Republicans have already driven off their libertarian core, thus guaranteeing yesterday's fiasco, by their own antics (drunken-sailor spending, the Schiavo circus). Thus, the Democrats didn't need to lift a finger -- when you enemy is self-destructing, just kick back and pop some corn.
Hopefully, yesterday's clue-by-four to the skull will lead to that realization. If so, they may recover a bit in 2008. If not... well, the Federalists are no more, the Whigs are no more, and there is no law of history that prevents the Republicans from following in their footsteps.
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