We can certainly thank conservatives who stayed home last November "to teach the Republicans a lesson." The Dems won their new MT Senate seat -- and thus the Senate -- by 738 votes. They won another state by less than 2,500 votes as well.
Chrissy Matthews will be apoplectic....
Well, those are the states that could be criticized for not showing up at the polls. We did just fine here, thank you. We have delivered quite well with every recent election except one, when John Edwards was elected to the Senate. That only lasted one term.
We did not lose the Senate seat in Montana or Virginia or anyplace else due to GOP voters staying home, give or take a handful of votes.
We lost these states because independents bailed on the GOP by a margin of 59-41, or roughly 3:2.