The condensed Arthur Brooks

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Democrats will be failures on election day because even though things favor them to take back the House, they should have beat every Republican running for a seat, even those with the power of money, incumbancy, and gerrymandering behind them.

Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to try and make a massive voter shift in two years a Democratic failure.

*UPDATE* Matt Yglesias finds another claim like this one, this time dealing with the Senate. His appropriate response:

...[T]here are only 15 Republican-held Senate seats on the ballot this November, that the composition of the Senate naturally favors the GOP, and that defeating incumbent legislators is difficult.

It seems as if Republicans are gearing up for failure, which is certainly a hopeful sign for Democrats. Spin control is often a decent barometer of party success. And the spin going on here is that Democrats, coming from a devastating loss in 2004, should be disappointed if they sweep the Senate races in play and take back the House. That's some spin, innit?