Frank Luntz points out that the numbers that led to a 63 seat pickup in the House and 680 seats in state legislatures, records dating back to either the 1930′s or Watergate:

The tea party is not some fringe coalition hopelessly removed from the mainstream. It is not, as The Washington Post recently wrote, “a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process.” The movement supplied the ideas that made independent voters flip from favoring Democrats by an 18-point margin in 2006 to supporting Republicans by 15 points Tuesday – and it will keep pressuring the government to change until the government truly changes.

Meanwhile, fellows like Frank Rich continue to say that the majority is just confused: “Tuesday’s exit polls…gave Democrats and Republicans virtually identical favorability ratings while voting for the G.O.P. They gave Obama a slightly higher approval rating than either political party even as they punished him. This is a snapshot of a whiplashed country that (understandably) doesn’t know whose butt to kick first.” It’s fine with us if he wants to continue to think this way.

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