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CHANGE: Michael Barone: Democrats fall as fast as Nixon Republicans in 1974. ?The victory of a De?

By Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: Michael Barone: Democrats fall as fast as Nixon Republicans in 1974. “The victory of a Democrat in the special election to fill Vice President Gerald Ford’s House seat in February 1974 was a clear indication that the bottom had fallen out for the Republican Party. Brown’s victory last week looks as if something similar has happened to the Democratic Party. Many people ask me whether the Democrats are in as much trouble as they were in 1994. The numbers suggest they are in much deeper trouble.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 31, 2010 (boomark / email).