Super Tuesday: Spilt Milk, Crying

The usual suspects are crowing about Rand-mentum and are completely dismissing Jack Conway as irrelevant to the race (which is a mistake).  But the most amusing winger yawp comes from K-Lo, backtracking completely on the significance of PA-12.

How exactly is it a level playing field when the Democrats have a statewide U.S. Senate primary happening at the same time? There was no comparative factor getting Republicans motivated to interrupt their busy lives to vote. That's not soreloserdom blogging, it's just attention to reality. The Democrats were more motivated in this race. This ain't the end of a trend. It's just another special election, in a Democratic district, and on a big Democratic primary day. And a Democrat won. Disappointing. But not paradigm-smashing shocking. And not devastating.

And it doesn't matter that the Dems won handily because it doesn't fit your own spin, dear.  We know.

The biggest gaffe however has to be Sean Trende's call yesterday that 2010 is Anti-Liberal or Anti-Democrat, not Anti-Incumbent.

The historical record provides no support for 2010 being a generalized anti-incumbent year; the elections to date this cycle in major statewide races certainly don’t support this scenario either.  The real question is whether moderate or conservative Democrats who oppose the Beltway Democratic agenda will be given cover from angry voters, or whether the electorate will thoroughly clean house this fall.  That’s where the difference between a bad Democratic year and a debacle of historic proportions can be found.

Might want to do some revisions there, ace.