Tonight was the worst of all possible outcomes.

In New York, the wingnuts lost, teaching the conservative activists a valuable lesson about electoral math. It’s a lesson I didn’t want them to learn.

In Virginia & New Jersey … a loss is a loss is a loss. I don’t care what the cross-tabs didn’t indicate about Obama. Perception is reality in politics. It’ll energize the base and the media narrative will suck, suck, suck right at the height of healthcare reform.

In Maine, that’s the very definition of a bad beat. The bible-thumpers pulled this one out real nice. Mainers were angry at top-down governance from the legislature. And now it’ll scare off other state legislatures from taking civil rights into their own hands. It was the only one that really mattered tonight.

Fuck.

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