A "Jim Jones situation?"
Michelle Malkin

Flashback to Oct. 21:

There is something unusual bubbling in Democratic political waters these days: optimism.  ...

And now, Nov. 7:

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. ...

The Times quotes analyst Charlie Cook's prediction if unhinged Democrats don't win the House:

“I think you’d see a Jim Jones situation — it would be a mass suicide,” he said.

Paging all Post Election Selection Trauma experts...

Are we really going to hand Congress to the Basket Case Party? ...

Donks down
Bryan Preston

Mike Kinsley, lifelong Democrat, on Pelosi’s pathetic platform:

For national security in general, the Democrats’ plan is so according-to-type that you cringe with embarrassment: It’s mostly about new cash benefits for veterans. Regarding Iraq specifically, the Democrats’ plan has two parts. First, they want Iraqis to “assum[e] primary responsibility for securing and governing their country.” Then they want “responsible redeployment” (great euphemism) of American forces. ...

Orson Scott Card, lifelong Democrat, on the only issue that matters in this election:

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.

But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it — and in the most damaging possible way — I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages. ...

At Kos, a little inconvenient truth.

And even the NYT is downplaying expectations. ...