The first chill wind interrupting the fun

Rod Dreher: "Bottom line: the Louisiana vote was about Louisiana, not national politics."

Perhaps. And that is certainly the way things might look from the DMN newsroom. Among professional Democrats around K Street, though, the Jindal win, combined with Niki Tsongas barely squeaking by in the special election for a supposedly "safe" House seat in Massachusetts and the fact that, damn it, things are going better in Iraq, are creating the first chill wind interrupting the fun. There is no panic yet, but certainly there is a growing realization that 2008 is by no means going to be the slam-dunk that they thought it would be as late as a month ago.

Context.