It's clear that Democrats will make significant gains today, even before votes counted. Against the forbidding advantages of incumbency, money, machinery, mobilization and the presidential bully pulpit, the minority party will gain seats in both houses of Congress.
It's worth being clear on what happened. The president succeeded in the Karl Rove strategy of nationalizing the elections around terror and taxes. Only the war on terror focused on the fiasco in Iraq. And the public -- in blue states...
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