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Over at NRO's Corner, the kids have spent the morning crowing endlessly about how, thanks to the win by Lamont last night, things are looking great for Republicans in the fall. The common theme seems to be that the Democratic Party has been taken over by "cut-and-run, they're going to let the terrorists win" Democrats.

Meanwhile, out in the real world, this from CNN:

Sixty percent of Americans oppose the U.S. war in Iraq, the highest number since polling on the subject began with the commencement of the war in March 2003, according to poll results and trends released Wednesday.

And a majority of poll respondents said they would support the withdrawal of at least some U.S. troops by the end of the year, according to results from the Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted last week on behalf of CNN. The corporation polled 1,047 adult Americans by telephone.

According to trends, the number of poll respondents who said they did not support the Iraq war has steadily risen as the war stretched into a second and then a third year. In the most recent poll, 36 percent said they were in favor of the war -- half of the peak of 72 percent who said they were in favor of the war as it began.

Sixty-one percent, however, said they believed at least some U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year. Of those, 26 percent said they would favor the withdrawal of all troops, while 35 percent said not all troops should be withdrawn. Another 34 percent said they believed the current level of troops in Iraq should be maintained.

Asked about a timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq, 57 percent of poll respondents said they supported the setting of such a timetable, while 40 percent did not and 4 percent had no opinion. Only half the sample, or about 524 people, was asked the timetable question.

So... remind me again why the Democratic Party unifying around an anti-Iraq war message will be a bad thing?

The people, as is usually the case, are out in front of the politicians on this one, and the cool kids in DC haven't the slightest clue. This should be fun, eh?