We got what we needed.
This is something only decent and civilized people can understand, but all we needed was to pick up one seat in the House, one seat in the Senate, and one governor's chair, to "win" the elections of 2010.
The Dems were destined to "lose," because that's the way history rolls; only Roosevelt in 1934 and Bush in 2002 bucked the tides of history.
So the Dems were going to lose anyway, no matter what the (R)s picked up, a little or a lot.
I'm waiting for the Dems and the primitives to spin this, "Well, we won because we didn't lose control of the Senate."
The last half of that statement is true, the front part of it is false.
The Dems didn't lose control of the Senate, but the Dems lost seats in the Senate.
We won, they lost. It's as simple as that.
All we needed to do to "win," was to pick up one seat in each chamber, and one statehouse.
That's all; nothing more.
Everything else has been gravy, and there's trainloads of gravy.