Despite the recent Republican setbacks, Democrats and McGreevey have been careful to refrain from any chest-thumping. People don't care about ideology anymore. If the Democrats are gaining the upper hand, it's because working families see them as closer to their needs. Carl Golden, a former spokesman for Whitman, said that, if anything, the GOP has been a flexible party that now realizes there must be some changes. But now the Republicans have more or less a clean slate, and that may be their greatest asset.
All bets are off.