The Roveian fire-up-the-base-and-screw-the-middle strategy only works mathematically if losses in the political center can be minimized. Now they can't and the GOP is likely to pay the price--and very probably not just in this election.

The post I'm linking here is very good. There is nothing America needs more right now than an end to partisan extremeism. I hope this result gets the country to mellow out.

SHOWDOWN 06: The Washington Monthly