It's not unusual for bad news to be interpreted as a death knell:  CDs/digital music would be the end of radio; the Intarweb would be the end of the newspaper; the Patriot Act is the end of civil rights; etcetera ad nauseum.

At the end of the 2006 elections, there was a quiet undercurrent throughout the news that the power held by the Republicans was at an end.  It was even whispered (quietly) that RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) would spell the end of the GOP.  But what's transpired in the last two years has me scratching my head and chuckling at the all too obvious conclusion:  It would be very easy for the Democrats to be destroyed by their very success.