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Yellow Dog brought this fact to my attention:
More liberal facts with which to go on rhetorical offense during Thanksgiving:
No, rethuglican victories do not mean that rethuglicans persuaded independents, much less a single Democrat, to vote for them. It means that Democratic voters stayed home.
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In congressional rematches, republican candidates who lost in '08 and won in '10 got the same number of votes this time as last, but the Democratic candidates got substantially fewer votes.
In other words, the rethuglicans did not "convert" democrats or independents, but rather the Democratic and independent voters who gave Democrats their winning margin in '08 just stayed home in '10.
And, yes, it is good news on a great many levels.
I can't help but feel a bit of disappointment on the low turnout, however.
I guess that's the way I am, but I don't know many other ways to be...
