Election Night Update, 10:46 PM

Ken Mehlman is on MSNBC talking about the need for the GOP to be a big tent party. I think both parties should be big tent. See here. Lincoln Chafee lost tonight because of RI's opposition to current policies in Iraq. But both parties ought to be big enough to allow for variations of opinion with agreement on certain core principles. Big tent parties build consensus nationally and are able to work in healthy bipartisan ways.