Imagine the flip side

Atrios or one of his minions has probably already blogged this, but can you imagine Carl Hulse writing about what a problem the Republicans would have if they won a moderate seat, say, Christopher Shays's seat in Connecticut?

Much easier to imagine the column Hulse would have written had conservative Democrat Travis Childers lost MS-01: Tut, tut, the Democrats can't win in the old Confederacy.

Is anyone else sick and damn tired of the reflexive contrariness of the pundits toward Democrats?