Appomatox, 2010

....or Paris (1783), or Ghent (1814), or Versaille (1918), or Tokyo Bay (1945) - all places of abject surrender.  I just prefer the Appomatox parallel, because this chapter of the ongoing Second Civil War has been implicitly conceded:

Trying to reshape expectations for the midterm elections, David Plouffe said Thursday that the Republicans should be expected to make a full sweep of Congress - and key gubernatorial races - given the environmental advantages they have. Anything less, he said, should be seen as a disgrace.

"By their definition, success is winning back the House, winning back the Senate and winning every major governor's race," Plouffe, Obama's 2008 campaign manager, said. "When you've got winds this strong in your favor, that's the kind of election you need to have - or it should be considered a colossal failure."

Alternative explanation: Poof knows something we don't.  Like, say, voter fraud on an unimaginable and unprecedented scale?  But if the tsunami is as Extinction Level as Poof is attempting to portray, wouldn't it take that degree of election theft to hold Donk losses down to "only" what polls are currently projecting?

And as Eeyore uncharacteristically queries, what if Republican gains match Poof's portrayal - or exceed them?:

A few people were speculating this morning on Twitter that Democrats will seize on Coons’s likely win in Delaware as some sort of wholesale repudiation of the tea-party agenda. Probably right, although I wonder if they’d need Sharron Angle and/or Joe Miller to lose also in order to make a full-blown capital-N Narrative out of it.

No worries — Plouffe will think of something.

Or will he?  It seems to me that this IS his "something" and he's trying to get out in front of the wave NOW in order to gain it some traction.  He's conceding catastrophic defeat already; if that happens, he's a prophet vindicating....the other side.  Not something likely to wind up on his [AHEM] resume.