The Hill News

The 2010 midterms are finally upon us.  While in some ways, we have borne witness to a wild, unpredictable, chaotic, and exciting election season, the 2010 midterms are shaping up to look exactly as political scientists expected them to look back in July, long before any declarations of in-Tea-pendence, witchcraft, write-in-candidacies from incumbent senators, and Democratic candidates telling the Democratic president to “shove it.”  The candidate and media-created claims about why the election is shaping up as it is are generally the stuff myths are made of while the reality of the 2010 election results is not that electrifying.

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