One Year Later.

Tim Fernholz on what the election results mean for Democrats:

Not two days ago, a veteran Democratic operative told me that he expected Tuesday's election results to be a death knell for Republican moderates. But after the votes were counted, the message is that extremists are out and economic concerns are in, as voters chose a Democrat over a conservative in a New York congressional seat and two governors' races were decided over economic concerns.

Pundits will no doubt try to use the results to prognosticate for the 2010 congressional midterms, but the real significance of Tuesday's results is how they will influence politicians in the coming months, not what they predict for voter behavior a year from now.

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