News a lot of folks don't want to hear

I think this is spot on---having looked extensively at the 94 elections, and having taught them many times as part of the Congress seminar, I would say that folks who will not even permit the possibility of seeing this are in denial mode.

I think a dimension of this is going to be the increasing sense of many voters that divided government is a good thing. Call me a mutineer, but I can't really argue against that at the moment.