[LS]

Good points. Part of the problem, though, is when you win three consecutive elections with a "play" from the playbook, the old maxim is that you keep running it till they stop it.

There was no evidence prior to this election that Republican turnout could be beaten. We can debate why, and you are right that the Dems ran a bunch of "conservatives." And no, we can't blame the public for choosing the "conservative" who hasn't voted yet over the "conservative" who has voted badly, for the most part.

The problem for the Rahm strategy now is that those "conservatives" will absolutely not be able to govern as such, so they, in turn, will have a record in two years, and it won't be a good one.

Now, a good coach would already anticipate that. But it does suggest that the strategy you see as so brilliant is a one-shot opportunity---provided, of course, the Republicans get sensible candidates.

[Kenny Bunk]

provided, of course, the Republicans get sensible candidates.

The RNC absolutely torpedoed two good candidates ... Harris in GFL, and Graf in AZ. Before we go into any more elections, we had better clean out the RNC.

BTW, Bush was very good at dealing with the opposition as a Governor. Soooo.....?

[Kenny Bunk]

There was no evidence prior to this election that Republican turnout could be beaten.

Come on, LS, the base was leaving tracks like Bigfoot! The Republicans were not killed. It was clearly suicide.