James Carville just made a really important point on CNN that was also emphasized to me by one of my advisers -- while Democratic gains in the House and Senate tonight are significant, the combination of 2006 and 2008 adds up to a shift of historic proportions:
Republicans are on target to lose somewhere between 12 and 14 Senate seats in a two-year period and somewhere around 50 to 55 House seats... The Republican party is getting a drubbing tonight the likes of which we've never seen. This is a two-year cycle in which this party has been hammered.
For the sake of comparison, the GOP picked up 54 House seats and eight Senate seats in the "Republican Revolution" of 1994.
don't forget that the dems lost a dozen house seats in 1992 too wrt to 2-year cycles.
Posted by: tof | November 05, 2008 at 12:12 PM