Compelling construction of the narrative going into this year's elections. Tomasky offers his own views of why the story is playing out the way it is.

This news analysis has considerable journalistic merit.The author provides a thorough review of how the Democrats got to where they are in this election. One statement however seems strange: "Democrats have thus crippled themselves by adapting comparatively limited ideas of legitimate political action", when in fact the reason the Democratic-controlled Congress is rated so poorly is that they passed truly grandiose (and truly terrible) things like ARRA and Obamacare. Also, the Republicans are uniformly painted as far right (though the author admits this is not correct for the House candidates). Still, this is one of the better pieces published in this strongly left-wing publication.

Obviously a very relevant article with less than a month away from the Nov. elections. However, throughout reading it, I kept asking myself, "Says who?". This would have been a much better piece if someone was quoted. For all I know, much of this information (although it's very thought-provoking), could be made up. And for that, I would not recommend passing it along.