The battle over the narrative of 2006

I'm not sure why I omitted the Huffington Post from my blogroll submissions, but it really was a glaring omission. I was just reading an interesting post by Ariana Huffington on the battle to control the meaning of the 2006 election:

"Even before the polls close -- hell, even before they open-- the battle within both parties to control the '06 narrative, to define what the results of this election mean, has already begun.

Tuesday's key fight is the get-out-the-vote ground war, but behind-the-scenes the struggle is to spin the results -- whatever they may be.

Sensing victory in the House, and keeping their fingers crossed on the Senate, the Democratic Party's competing factions -- DLC centrists on one side, progressives on the other -- are eagerly trying to frame the hoped for good news as proof that their side is right."

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