Election Day Downer for Republicans

The Republican theory of 2010 has been that the party does not need a positive agenda. That theory may yet prove correct in November. But it took a nasty knock Tuesday night.

My latest column for The Week looks at what went wrong for the GOP on election night.

It’s hard to say which is worse: Republican Tim Burns’ loss to the Democrat in the special election in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District or Rand Paul’s win in the Kentucky Senate Republican primary. …

The Republican theory of the 2010 election has been that the party does not need a positive agenda of its own. In this non-presidential election, Republicans need only be the party of “hell no,” incessantly attacking the Obama record. That theory may yet prove correct in November. But it took a nasty knock Tuesday night.

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