I find it interesting, but not surprising, that after the shift in the political landscape with the mid-term elections, that those results were downplayed by the liberal media and it's fans as just "local contests with local concerns, not indicative of any groundswell".

Now that one special election has gone to a Democrat in a, for New York anyway, Republican district the liberals are dancing in the street and handing out sweets to the children and calling the future of the Republican Party to be doomed and in danger of extinction.

OK, maybe I'm exaggerating the Democrat's jubilation, but not by much.