For those political junkies out there, Bob Benenson of CQ Politics has an analysis of the 2009 elections and what they may or may not mean for 2010: GOP Comeback: Not So Fast.
But there’s a significant amount of countervailing evidence [to claims of a GOP resurgence] , not only in the relative handful of election returns from last week but also in the current polling about the national political environment and in the race-by-race assessments of the midterm campaigns for Congress, which by history’s guide will inevitably turn on voter views of the first two years of this presidency.
With a look at exit polls from Virginia and New Jersey as well as an overall look at House and Senate seats, Benenson article is a must read.