prediction: absent some major political change, this is Harry Reid's last race....

[mike_c]

OK, he beat Sharron Angle. More properly, I suppose, he is *beating* Sharron Angle and it isn't a done deal yet, but the media is beginning to predict he'll win and I suppose they're probably right. So the good news for democrats is that he narrowly beat Sharron Angle. The bad news for democrats though is that Harry Reid narrowly beat Sharron Angle.

Angle is bugfuck insane. One would expect that in a non-bizarro version of this world she would be politely encouraged to sit at the table with the grown-ups and to offer her opinion every now and then in hope that it would boost her confidence and help her develop her critical thinking skills. Instead, Harry Reid-- a veteran U.S. senator and majority leader of the most powerful legislative body on Earth-- has managed to squeak past the electoral support for a crazy woman with his hide, and his job, barely intact.

One can only imagine the message this sends to the republican party, and if that's the case, one must also imagine that senator Reid's ear is pressed to the same grapevine. If a batshit lunatic could come THIS CLOSE to unseating him, what might a moderately impaired but reasonably articulate republican pod person be capable of next time?

Harry Reid has no political future UNLESS things change fundamentally. Next time it won't be a rattle-trap tea-bagger crazy who opposes him-- it'll be a slick repub-droid spokes-model. The only way to change that is to change the underlying psyche of the nation, or at least of Nevada-- arguably harder than changing the deep south. This is Reid's last race, IMO.

[aquart]

1. Thank you for your concern.

[BlueIris]

2. Killjoy.

Oh, yeah, and (I never thought I'd whip this out for anyone other than My Guy): MAKE OUT WITH ME, HARRY!

That is all.

[scheming daemons]

3. 2016 is a Presidential year..and it will be at the end of the enormously successful Obama Presidency

6 years is a lifetime in politics.

[mike_c]

4. look, I can't tell you how much I wish that fantasy comes true...

...but from where I sit, not only is the presidential election in two years rather than four, but if the Obama presidency is going to be judged as "enormously successful" near the end of 2012, then we must be in the MIDST of that enormous success right now. Unless he's holding back for dramatic effect. So in the MIDST of that enormous success, Harry Reid was barely able to ride the buoyant mood of the nation to victory against the certifiably around-the-bend madwoman of Nevada.

Come on. I mean, I hope you're right, but this elections REALLY feels like the 2002 midterms to me tonight, and we all know how well things went in the next several elections after that.

[scheming daemons]

6. This election tonight is to Obama what 1982 was to Reagan...

... a minor speed bump on the way to transforming the federal government.

Only this time, it's being transformed in the right direction.


2012 will be to Obama what 1984 was to Reagan.... an overwhelming blowout win.

[merwin]

5. It is time to put progressives in charge.

This is further evidence that the so-called compromising that the congress, senate, Obama and his advisors are doung was so fucking successful. If we had taken a page from the republican playbook and pushed through reform that would actually help instead of letting them sabotage every bill, maybe confidence in our leaders would have been higher.

Instead we get a health care bill that forces insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, but doesn't force them to cover the conditions themselves. Wtf is the point of health insurance if it doesn't cover your pre-existing condition? They can blame anything you get in the future on that.

Maybe this will be a wake up call that you actually have to deliver when you promise change. And maybe you should take a unified stance and get on every media outlet you can,hold weekly addresses, do anything you can to bcall out the republicans on their obstructionism. Be so loud that they can't ignore you.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Six years is an eternity in politics

that said, it might be his last race due to this thing called AGE.

[JI7]

8. hahah, you can't be serious , 6 years is a LONG TIME

even 1 year is a long time.

many wouldn't have predicted McCain would have won the Republican nomination .

less than a year ago many wouldn't have thought Feingold would lose.