Response to "G.O.P. Sees Bellwether in Two Democratic Defeats"

First the Virigina and New Jersey governorships.

Then a Dixiecrat goes Republican in Alabama.

A swing-state congressional seat has switched Republican.

And the GOP has picked up a house seat in a confirmed liberal stronghold.

Yet President Obama's press secretary has the foolish audacity to claim that “Special elections . . . do not tell you very much about future regularly scheduled elections."

Republican Robert Turner took Weiner's 3-to-1 Democratic district with a strong majority. Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown scooped up the Kennedy Senate seat overcame the same odds, which gave way to the Republican shellacking of 2010.

The Democrats should be afraid, very afraid, especially in light of the President's own press secretary feeble comfort in the wake of damning unpopularity.