This is White

And Round.

Adam Nagourney simultaneously proves he can take nourishment directly from Karl Rove's pyloric valve and wins the coveted "Election Day Wanking" prize by explaining why Victory is really Failure for Democrats.

For Democrats, Even a Gain May Feel Like a Failure
By ADAM NAGOURNEY

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — In most midterm elections, an out-of-power party picking up, say, 14 seats in the House and five seats in the Senate could call it a pretty good night.

But for Democrats in 2006, that showing would mean coming up one seat shy of taking control of both the Senate and the House. And it would probably be branded a loss — in the case of the House, a big one.

For a combination of reasons — increasingly bullish prognostications by independent handicappers, galloping optimism by Democratic leaders and bloggers, and polls that promise a Democratic blowout — expectations for the party have soared into the stratosphere. Democrats are widely expected to take the House, and by a significant margin, and perhaps the Senate as well, while capturing a majority of governorships and legislatures.

These expectations may well be overheated. Polls over the weekend suggested that the contest was tightening, and some prognosticators on Monday were scaling back their predictions, if ever so slightly. (Charlie Cook, the analyst who is one of Washington’s chief setters of expectations, said in an e-mail message on Monday that he was dropping the words “possibly more” from his House prediction of “20-35, possibly more.”)

Some Democrats worry that those forecasts, accurate or not, may be setting the stage for a demoralizing election night, and one with lasting ramifications, sapping the party’s spirit and energy heading into the 2008 presidential election cycle.
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Later, Ad Nags stopped by a numbers of weddings and loudly announced the union was doomed, peed in several wading pools, set some bums on fire, took a dump in a confessional, spit on some corn at the farmer's market, stubbed a blunt out on a baby and told random strangers on the subway they should phone home immediately and check to see if their Mom was OK because he'd heard that she may have been hit and killed by a bus.

Because hey, since it is theoretically possible that their mothers could have had been hit and killed by buses, it's not technically a lie...