Actually, I’m beginning to get the sense that November 7 may not be a disaster at all. The Republican base will never make as much noise as the nutroots. Add to that the fact that the Democrats’ noise gets further amplified through the mainstream media’s megaphone and you have a real difference in volume. But I’m beginning to think the noise doesn’t reflect electoral reality. It didn’t in 2002, it didn’t in 2004, and it didn’t even on Election Day in 2004 when the exit polling of actual voters (as opposed to typical polling which desperately tries to figure who likely voters are) was horrendously inaccurate.

Another thing: I’m just not seeing the left moving. Ned Lamont may well turn out to be liberalism’s croaking canary in the coal mine.