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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Partying with the Ds

posted by on November 7 at 20:12 PM

Here at Democratic Party HQ at the Sheraton, the mood is jubilant but noticeably more subdued (and better dressed) than the rowdy crowd at Spitfire.

There are two giant Jumbotrons and a stage for Maria Cantwell in the front of the room, and the crowd just cheered politely when Wolf Blitzer announced that the House had gone to the Democrats (and slightly less politely when he announced that Mike “Regular Guy” McGavick had been defeated.)Everybody is talking about “polarization.” A guy behind me is opining that “we need a split government. One-sided government doesn’t work.” The press is clustered uncomfortably in the front of the room. All the state and local campaigns for initiatives are sequestered in another room; propositions (Sims’s transit proposal and Nickels’s street-maintenance measure) are in another.

Oh, and the bar is cash-only.

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