did Democrats get the memo?

This is most intriguing: of course the trend (unmentioned in the Dem-vs.-Rep partisan fervor) is that the Dems have run extraordinarily out-of-the-box candidates (like James Webb) in those states where they hope to top vulnerable incumbents. It’s a sharp turn to the Clintonite center that is so loathed by the netroots.

Now Arianna Huffington implies that even Howard Dean has turned right:

Howard Dean just finished a jaw-dropping interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN, seemingly designed to inspire voters in states where the polls haven’t closed to just stay home. Among the lowlights, he promised voters they wouldn’t see Democrats “cut-and-run” in Iraq (is that what he thinks Jack Murtha’s plan is?), called for a “thoughtful” exit from the country after it’s been “stabilized”, and told Dobbs “there isn’t much we can do to change the president’s policies” in Iraq [when the transcript is posted, I may have to change a word or two in this last quote since I'm doing it from memory, but, trust me, this pretty much what he said].

Even if the Dems win big tonight, there are going to be a lot of unhappy netroots and lefty Democrats (not least because their Great White Hope, Lamont, lost. What a shame).