20 years ago. We’re getting old, people.

Burns Strider, Huffington Post: Speaker Pelosi today let it be known she would seek to remain as Leader of the House Democratic Caucus come the new Congress in January. I applaud this decision. Keeping Ms. Pelosi as House Democratic Caucus Leader is the smartest move members of that caucus could make. Her tenacity speaks for itself. It’s a needed commodity to lead in Washington. But, there are also other, core

From the prospect of becoming a regional party that needs to lurch left, to the assertion that what we really need to do is embrace our own ostensible principles and refuse to compromise them — all in the course of two years! Looks like we are all Tea Partiers now!

National Journal: After Tuesday, Democrats, incredibly, hold a majority of the congressional delegation in only three states—Iowa, New Mexico, and Vermont—that don’t directly touch an ocean. Republicans similarly routed Democrats in gubernatorial races across the Midwest and the border states, from Ohio and Tennessee to Wisconsin and Iowa. So Democrats emerge from this week confronting a huge demographic hole: their meager performance among all white voters except women with college