The result was a series of races where Democratic incumbents were able to drag themselves from the brink of electoral defeat by going negative early and often against their Republican opponents. (voices.washingtonpost.com)
The damage to democratic process is immense, as electoral defeats would come to be seen as a violation of a right to dignity. (firstthings.com)
Any party seeking to recover from electoral defeat has to develop a coherent analysis of why it lost, and what ought to be done to put it right. (policy-network.net)