i m not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like i did last night. you look at race by race, it was close. cumulative effect, however, was not too close. it was a thumping. i think they were saying, look, we just don t like what we see when we watch washington. so, once again, the political pendulum in this country has swung back to the gop, but will we be having this same conversation about the democrats two years from now? i want to ask someone who has close ties to the bush white house went democrats rode the wave of voter discontent in 06, nicolle wallace was george w. bush s former communications director. what do you view as the key to a course correction? i think obama did the right thing today. and i was watching this network after that and was surprised that people weren t more encouraged by the humility that he displayed. i mean, this guy is never gonna weep with us, but i think that by talking about how bad it felt by say