Folks - take a second to study those Clinton-Obama 2008 numbers and this election and tell me what you see.... I know Al already sees it.
Democrats had better pay attention.
Clintonistas bailed in large numbers? That is hardly shocking.
Working-class revolt centered against those in power.
It will take some work to see the differential swings to see just who "revolted" the most, and by how much. What we do know, is that academic areas, and rich liberal areas, hardly revolted at all vis a vis Obama. Some, but not much, relatively speaking, as to the rich liberal areas.
The New York Times has a swing map by town (from 2008 presidential) this morning:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/19/us/politics/massachusetts-election-map.html?hp
I don't want to get into another class-definition argument, but what the map suggests to me is that much as we like to pay attention to ye olde mill towns 
, the Dems have at least as much of a problem is in sort of lower-middle areas - the "exurbs" and the like, where people have never been too loyal to either party.
Yeah. Plymouth and Barnstaple (of which only the western portion swung big, not the cape) are among the biggest swings.
Though I see what Al is saying too, I suppose.
