Democrats want a way out as well. But it’s not coming. The wave was visible late last year. The tide never turned. Eleventh hour panic has set in. And in their desperation, Democrats have become Dole.

“You inspire by getting people to be excited about something they see happening, not telling them analytically about the condition they are currently in,” Mike McCurry told me Tuesday. “When you engage in that kind of psycho analysis of the electorate you are bound to produce an unhappy outcome.”

In effect, Democrats are insinuating: It’s not me; it’s you.

Americans are responding: No, it’s you.

Politics is like courtship. A guy asks a girl out. She says no. The guy tells the girl she’s irrational, not thinking clearly. What happens? She walks away, more certain in her thinking.