My site traffic has been strangely high for the last couple of days. Not sure why - I will have something to say about Tuesday's election but I'm still processing a lot of information.
The range of opinion on "what the Democrats should do next" has been all over the board. Kos said the other day that Howard Dean should replace Terry McAuliffe as the new chairman of the party, which is sort of like saying that after McGovern's defeat the next presidential candidate should have been Jerry Brown. Slate had someone on the other day saying that the Dems should put up John Edwards in 2008 because he speaks the "language of values."
I think they're missing the point. The Democrats lost this election not because their messenger was flawed (although he was), but because this election - like every election - was a war of ideas, and their ideas lost.
More to come.
