Contests serve as warning to Democrats: It's not 2008 anymore
Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President Obama won the White House, Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey delivered clear warnings for the Democrats. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Jay Rosen, Memeorandum, Washington Post



In an age of sensationalism, every writer wants to show that their article is more important than anything else, these are minor occurances, and the real story is the demographic of the voter at the polls.