Compromises, capitulation and Republican outrageousness got you down. How about a feel good story?
Flashback to November 2, 2010. Democrats are decimated across the country. We lose 63 seats in the House of Representatives and thus the majority. We lose six Senate seats and six Governor Mansions. There were some bright spots that night, and one of them is Delaware. Democrats held onto the Senate seat formerly head by Vice President Biden, took back the at large Congressional seat given up by Mike Castle, won 2 seats in the State House and won a surprising victory in the State Treasurer's race.
Now, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Delaware was not an automatic beachhead against the Republican wave in 2010. If Mike Castle had not left his house seat to run for Senate, and if he had not lost to Teabagger Christine O'Donnell in Republican primary, I probably would not be writing this post. At the very least, Mike Castle most likely would have won the Senate seat against Chris Coons. And without the insane O'Donnell on the ballot to drive up Democratic turnout against her, it is likely Democrats lose several seats in the state House and Senate, and they definitely lose the Treasurer's race, thus revitalizing a state Republican party that was near death.
Thankfully, Republican voters chose to committ suicide by electing O'Donnell over Castle, and that has given the Democrats and progressives an opening in the First State that is being taken advantage of.