...but no one on either side will either read that level of detail into last night nor learn any lessons. The Democrats will come away believing that the Deeds and Corzine losses were not indicative of the general state of the party (which is probably true), the media will come away believing that this night represents a rebuke of "Obama's Liberal agenda" (which is, as typical, both lazy and uninformed on at least two levels), and the Conservative pundits are already spinning the NY-23 loss as a "good thing," because it shows every non-Tea Party Republican what can happen to their seat if they don't toe the line (which is, as typical, a pathological way to view an electoral loss.)

Democrats would continue to be weak, disappointing, and scared of re-election even if Corzine had won, so it won't change things.  The "Conservative Party" would have been emboldened to run challengers to all Republicans they didn't like regardless of the outcome of this one race, because that is what a party with OCD does.  And regardless of what happened, the media was certain to continue to misread the exit polls and come to conclusions that have no basis in what the country is actually thinking.

Analysis is left to the academicians and listened to by no one in charge.