Eric McGhee, Brendan Nyhan, and I melded our respective blogging on the 2010 elections into a post-mortem for the Boston Review. In it, we talk about the effect of the economy and other fundamentals, the importance of district partisanship, the relatively small effects of the Tea Party and independent group money, and how key roll call votes may have hurt the Democrats.
Find it “here”:http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/sides.php.