No more blue dog chow

OK, first things first. This is a post-election wrap-up, not a post-apocalyptic wrap-up. America is once again more red than blue, and ironically, the redness makes some of us bluer. But mostly we're all purple people due to bruising after being pummeled by so many negative ads.

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Yeah, yeah, I know: The GOP did well. After a change in administrations, the minority party won a bunch of House seats in the following midterm election. Ho hum. Whoopty do. This is about as unusual as a piquant odor emanating from the dumpster behind a fish market.

Happened to Reagan: 26 seats in 1982.

Happened to Clinton: 54 seats in 1994.

Would have happened to George W. Bush if a certain phenomenon called 9/11 hadn't gone down the year before.

It's a natural contraction. Democracy's labor pains. Only the gestation period was a bit longer, and the soreness more lingering.

Admittedly, the number of seats changing hands this time around was a bit intense. North of 60. Fifteen percent of the total lower body politic. Erasing the Democratic gains of '06 and '08 combined.

But look at the bright side. No more need to stock up on those fifty-pound bags of Blue Dog Chow.

The red tide seemed to congeal after hitting the Rockies. California, Oregon, and Washington avoided the brunt of the anti-incumbent wave. Most likely due to the weather being nicer, giving Hope and Change a longer shelf life.