That's Ambinder's bet on the Dems' Senate haul. McConnell will indeed be the early bell-weather. This feels to me a little like 1997 in Britain, before the Tories fell. It feels like a moment of truth - and then the scale of the anticipated loss is actually eclipsed by the reality. But I don't know.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/10/-at-least-57/210414/
