There was no Blue Wave

OK, we lied.

We stayed up and followed results online.

There was no Blue Wave.

Don't spin it. Plenty of Dem punditry thought they had a chance to win the senate last night. Coming back and winning the house, which looked in doubt for a while, must feel like a last minute sports ball win against a team you're supposed to beat handily.

What's worse for Dems, their shiny new candidates in TX, FL, and GA lost. Those last two must hurt. Those two African American governor candidates were supposed to be the future.

The Dems took the house, it looks like by 33 seats which just happens to be what they won in 2006.

The GOP has at least a +3 advantage in the senate at that's without AZ or MT being called yet. To our eye AZ looks good, we can't say about MT.

Here in New Jersey Menendez won, nice going, Soprano State, and our own Leonard Lance lost to state department uber-wanker Tom Malinowski. The GOP has a suburbanite voter problem, which is nothing new.

In the Tennessee test case, Blackburn smashed Bredesen. Nice going, Volunteer State!

What was last night, then? A splash? A trickle.

In any event William Stroock was right and the professional punditry was wrong.

There was no Blue Wave.