I'm listening to Air America and the spin is that since the real results seemed so "vastly different" than the exit polls, there must, we imply, be something really wrong. "Can't explain it. Didn't make any sense at all."

I have my own theory. It's really radical and hard to understand for leftists: The media is biased. Therefore, nearly all of their 'errors' tend to favor the left. Like the exit polls:

In 2000, George W. Bush lost the white Catholic vote in Wisconsin. This time, he appears to be winning it by 10 percentage points. Yet I believe the exit polls have the white Catholic vote shrinking from more than one-third of the population to less than one-quarter. There's no reasonable explanation for it...

In North Carolina, the exit polls show the voting population to be 63 percent women...

The Latino population makes up a larger percentage of Florida's population than in 2000. The President is carrying the Latino population in Florida by a greater margin than four years ago. Yet the exit polls have Latinos comprising a far smaller voting percentage of the population than four years ago...

These are called "errors". Unless you can convince yourself about 20% of the male voters in North Carolina forgot to turn out at the polls for some unusual reason.

The Air America discussion turns to the idea that this election was about "morality." The hosts are incredulous at the idea this was about morality. Morality? How can you speak of morality when there are people dying in Iraq?

Two words: Saddam Hussein.

They simply cannot see any moral component to what happened in Iraq. A man attacks the neighbors on all sides, kills literally millions of people in wars, drops his own people through plastic shredders, tortures them in unspeakable ways for decades, blocks UN-mandated weapons inspections, and is a sponsor of terror around the world...

Nope, no moral angle there. At least, not for the left. Not compared to, apparently, Halliburton.

The left is simply stunned. They are incredulous. This could not happen. They resolve to remain defiant.

Defiant.

Defying what? The will of the voters? The laws by which we conduct elections? Who do they think they're fighting?

The talk on Air America is that "we have together, we have to keep our spirits strong." Leftism is a social phenomenon. It withers upon contact with reality, it must be sustained by much stoking and feedback.

I can watch most the world oppose me, and it's okay, because I know what my values are. I try not to the crowd tell me what to do or think, or what's right or wrong. The left is not wired this way.

James Carville is saying it's over. But the segment of the left I'm tapped into refuses to give up. When James Carville seems, by comparison, to be a reasonable, sensible, dignified guy, you know the Democrats have shifted left.

Again.

UPDATE: They're doing it again. Unbelievable. No, actually, I expected this: The analysis is the same as last time they lost ground in the House, in 2002: We weren't radical enough. We weren't leftist enough. We shouldn't try to appeal to the center. That was a mistake.

UPDATE 2: "I'm still trying to fathom... trying to fathom..." how the huge turnout didn't result in a Democratic landslide. HINT: Those vast number of voters who don't turn out don't all support you, like you imagined. Your understanding of reality it wrong, and needs adjusting.

Sigh.

Also note: If Bush wins Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico and keeps Ohio, I believe this will be the strongest mandate for a president since 1988.'

UPDATE 3: "They're mean. We're nice. We need to be meaner." Yes, that line again too.