From a MyDD diary by Joe Trippi:

What voters are ready to tell anyone who will listen is that they would like to reject both parties right now if they could. They are trying to find a way to say to both parties, "We want you to change or get out of the way." Both party establishments are in denial. Both party establishments are hard of hearing. And, both party establishments are likely to see the results on Tuesday as Karl Rove sees them - a victory of one party over another. That is the real danger in 2010 and beyond for both parties.

I've heard again and again from Democrats here in D.C. that the Republicans are too damaged by the Bush hangover to really be a threat in 2010 or 2012.

That's really the best we've got, the cold comfort of knowing no matter how shitty a job our party is doing in office, no matter how little we are delivering on our promises that the other party is even less popular and therefore our nominal power will be safe in the coming elections.

Joe Bageant has written something relevant that really pains me as a card carrying Deaniac whose movement ultimately kick-started total regime change in the U.S. only to end up with more of the same weak tea middle-of-the-road corporatist bullshit:

That's what I find disheartening about the so-called grassroots initiatives for change. They are well meaning, but nobody seems to understand that the grass is growing on the turf of a totalist corporate state, with its roots dependent upon the corporate hegemony for nourishment. If the big dogs don't continue to shit on them daily, they whither and die. The big dogs know that, and they know that the grassroots-ers are moreover powerless, and that only the local pups need worry about them at all...

Read the rest at Joe's site.