"One of the great flukes"

Charles Krauthammer looks at the 2008 election through the lens of this week's results.
November '08 was one shot, one time, never to be replicated. Nor was November '09 a realignment. It was a return to the norm -- and definitive confirmation that 2008 was one of the great flukes in American political history.
The irony of 2009 is that the anti-Democratic tide overshot the norm -- deeply blue New Jersey, for example, elected a Republican governor for the first time in 12 years -- because Democrats so thoroughly misread 2008 and the mandate they assumed it bestowed.
Virginia Democrats are struggling with the results, wondering where their voters went. The answer is right here, but it may not be the answer they want to hear.