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How Bad?

By Big Tent Democrat

Nate Silver:

Dawn breaks over New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Democrats catching the early train to work are thinking about adding a little whiskey to their morning coffee. Because the headlines they are reading are truly terrible.

[. . .] Pundits are running out of metaphors to describe what just happened. Not a wave, a hurricane. Not a hurricane, a tsunami! Not a tsunami; a tsunami from a magnitude 9.5 earthquake. Or by a meteor strike!

Democrats knew it was going to be bad. But they didn’t think it was going to be this bad. So, what happened?

In typical Silver style, he's not saying this is his prediction, just a possibility (that's why he gets the big bucks!) As long as we are all hedging, I fall back on my tried and true cliche - time will tell.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).