It’s funny to me that people are speaking about the 2010 mid-terms as if the result wasn’t already baked in:

“I think that there is a real shot we are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren’t leading the efforts to reform Washington. We campaigned in ’06 and ’08, and if voters don’t see that change, we haven’t lived up to that promise.”

– Steve Hildebrand, deputy campaign manager for Barack Obama‘s presidential campaign, in an interview on CNN.

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