From our sister publication
National Journal: "If you didn't like the 112th Congress, you will hate the 113th." The story by Dan Friedman
suggests that losses like those of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, Linda McMahon in Connecticut, Heather Wilson in New Mexico, and Richard Carmona in Arizona, were the result of the "partisan deficit in their states," and that we should expect "a more partisan Senate, and a more anonymous one."
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/national-journal-congress-post/264882/