The recent loss of formerly deep-red congressional districts to Democrats is supposed to be awful news for John McCain. Actually, the opposite could be true.

We keep hearing that if Republicans can't hold onto voters in northeastern Mississippi — or in Baton Rouge, La., or in the Chicago suburbs where former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert held sway — they're done for. The GOP's rocket is hurtling to earth, and not even a special-case Republican like McCain can stop ...

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