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South Carolina has never been this red, and the state Democratic Party has never been this lost. For the first time since Reconstruction, all nine of South Carolina’s constitutional offices will be held by Republicans, come January. The one statewide office Democrats held, the superintendent of education, was lost in Tuesday’s Republican landslide. Democrats failed to capture any of the eight other statewide offices already held by Republicans. Both the S.C. Senate and House continue to be dominated by the GOP along with the powerful State Budget and Control Board. That could mean the S.C. Democratic Party, limping along since...

President Obama made more than 60 phone calls last night to Democrats up for reelection. As fate would have it, most of those calls were to those who lost, including outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who lost her majority. As the night went on, the president and his aides watched candidates for whom they held out hope drown in a crimson tide. Virginia Democrats Rick Boucher and Tom Perriello - gone. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland - gone. Three presidential visits to Pennsylvania were not enough to save Rep. Joe Sestak's Senate campaign or five House Democrats. Another five Ohio...

What we are observing is not so much an election as a kind of plebiscite on the presidency of Barack Obama and the direction in which he has taken the country. November 2 is the moment when the imminent destiny of the United States will begin to be decided. What we are observing is not so much an election as a kind of plebiscite on the presidency of Barack Obama and the direction in which he has taken the country. His name may not be on the ballot, but his name is stamped, as it were, on the forehead of...

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