The Spirit of Ball's Bluff election post mortem I

Some incumbants survived. Mostly Democrats. They will be next up if they don't understand one central fact about this election.

Nobody voted for the Democrats.

They voted against Republicans, the war, Bush, etc. Some truisms are actually true. This time around the voting "against" urge was so strong politicians need to accept one central truth: the American public is thoroughly disgusted with the entire American political class and their stipendiary pundits.

It may be, oddly enough, that Conservatives are the first to realize this. For instance, here is Marshall Wittman (the "famous Beltway Moose") on NRO giving his post mortems:

The Republicans suffered a massive defeat because the voters rejected their politics of polarization and mismanagement of the war. Republican leadership in Washington became ossified and corrupt. And this time the old politics of wedge issues did not work for the GOP.

This election was a tale of two cities: New Orleans and Baghdad. Republicans failed in both places. Indeed, this election was more about competence than ideology.

Indeed, it is not about ideology or message. It is about frustration with a failed system of two political parties representing nothing more significant than beating the other party each can stay in power.