TWO GOOD POINTS

Despite the wingers absurd attempts to turn the Nov. 3 Elections into a great conservative revival, the conservatives have done very poorly and even POLITICO has noticed.

GOP's special elections losing streak
By ERIKA LOVLEY | 11/5/09 8:47 PM EST

...Republicans have lost 20 of the past 29 House special elections, dating back to January 2003. And in perhaps the most worrisome aspect of the trend, the GOP lost its fifth consecutive competitive special election in Republican-friendly territory.

In New York’s historically Republican 23rd District, where Democrat Bill Owens prevailed Tuesday, the GOP squandered a 43 percent to 31 percent voter registration advantage over the Democratic Party. In New York’s 20th District, where Scott Murphy — like Owens, another unknown Democrat with no experience in elective office — won a March special election, the GOP blew a 65,000-voter registration edge.

In Foster’s March 2008 upset victory, Republicans found a way to lose the seat belonging to former Speaker Dennis Hastert — a district that Hastert had held for more than two decades and that twice voted for George W. Bush by comfortable margins.

Two more embarrassing losses followed in May of that year, when Democrats snatched GOP-held seats in Louisiana and Mississippi. In the Mississippi race, the Republican special election nominee managed to defy political gravity by losing a seat in an area where voters delivered 62 percent to Bush in 2004 — and where they gave 62 percent to John McCain a few months later, in November.

The second good point for liberals is the enormous decline of prominent elected officials from the South, first noted by Kevin Drum and given a little more exposure by Ezra Klein. Creeps like "Gingrich, Armey, Lott, Bush, Frist, and DeLay" who held power in the 90s are GONE.