I say it over and over and over again:

The Republican Party lost the Majority in both the House and Senate by a mere 82,000 votes spread out through key races throughout the country. That's it.

Most races in the House were lost by less than 1 percent - Rob Simmons in CT by less than 100 votes. George Allen, a one-time likely Presidential candidate, lost his Senate seat because he failed to grasp the importance of the modern world and faced a swarm of well-coordinated attacks from the Left.

The fact of the matter is that we're no longer talking about millions or even thousands of votes that decide an election - but handfuls. And the only way to tap the "Long Tail" of politics is through Web 2.0.

Let's dig in...