You wouldn't believe the blog I wrote last night. It had all the drama of a tea party protest with all the comedy of a Joe Biden fundraiser. I'm telling you, it sung. Course, it could have been the scotch.

But in the cold light of day, while some states are still sorting through ballots (handwritten or otherwise), I can't help but wonder whether all this reading of tea leaves is worth the breath we waste on it.

The president won a pretty convincing electoral victory two years ago, and the Democrats waved their "mandate" proudly. Now we're all left scratching our heads and wondering what the hell happened. (And, hindsight being a little sharper, I'm pretty sure we were voting against the Bush administration as much as – if not more – for the Obama one.)

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