And it wasn't that much of a clobbering, all things considered (that being the mood of the nation, the media worship of 0bama, and the historic nature of his candidacy, and the fact that McCain was and is a legislatively confused old man).
In other words, they're almost within an eyelash of having total absolute power over the federal government, especially once Obama starts appointing his Supreme Court justices.
The Republicans have absolutely no margin of error at all for the next election. We need to start drawing up a serious battle plan to avoid another catastrophe, or it might be too late.