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6:50 PM ET, November 5, 2014

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Ezra Klein / Vox:
9 takeaways from the 2014 election  —  1) The Democrats lost.  —  Badly.  This wasn't just a tough map.  Democrats lost Senate seats in Iowa and Colorado.  They lost governor races in Florida and Wisconsin.  Hell, they lost governor races in Illinois, Maryland, Maine, and Massachusetts!
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Jay Newton-Small / TIME:
McConnell: No Shutdowns, No Full Obamacare Repeal  —  An exclusive interview with TIME about his plans as Majority Leader  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell was giddy, not an emotion often seen in the sober 72-year-old Kentuckian.  But that's the only way to describe TIME's interview with him in Perry County, Kentucky, on Monday afternoon.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Democrats Have Two Choices Now: Gridlock or Annihilation  —  Well, that could have gone better.  —  Shares  —  A cardinal fact of American politics that has emerged during the Obama years is that demographic forces are slowly and inexorably driving the electorate leftward.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Reid: Why can't we all just ... get along?  —  Consider this karma avoidance by the soon-to-be-ex-Senate Majority Leader, but Harry Reid's new act won't fool anyone, least of all Mitch McConnell.  Reid has run the US Senate for the past eight years like a dictatorship, steadily eroding minority privileges …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Meet The Real Next Senate Majority Leader: Ted Cruz
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
The Democrats' Catastrophe and the Need For a New Agenda
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Mitch McConnell may be the greatest strategist in contemporary politics
New York Times:
Obama Vows to Cooperate, Within Limits
Discussion: The Nation, Power Line, TalkLeft and Gawker
Elana Schor / Politico:
Elections give Keystone a filibuster-proof majority
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
Battle for the Senate: How the GOP woke up while Democrats were feeling the drag  —  One night in early September, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called a longtime colleague, Sen. Pat Roberts, from his living room in Louisville, furious about the 78-year-old Republican's fumbling and lethargic reelection campaign.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin on election results: ‘This is a real ass-whuppin’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.) did not mince words on Wednesday when asked to describe the historic losses by congressional Democrats.  —  “This is a real ass-whuppin,” he said.  —  Manchin is a moderate first-term senator …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell expected to woo King, Manchin  —  Two Senate sources say they expect Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to reach out to Independent Sen. Angus King (Maine) and centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) about joining the Senate Republican Conference.  —  Republicans have a 52-seat Senate majority …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
The Hill:
Democrats sift through the debris
Discussion: Roll Call and Power Line
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What really went wrong for Democrats  —  The most common explanation we're hearing for the GOP sweep of a dozen Senate races last night is that an already-treacherous map for Democrats was made a lot worse by the failure of core Dem voter groups to show up.  —  But multiple Democratic …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Firedoglake
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Here's Why the Democrats Got Crushed—and Why 2016 Won't Be a Cakewalk  —  Barack Obama has been elected president twice, but his party has now gotten drubbed in the two midterm elections held during his presidency.  He will face a Republican Senate and House.
David McCabe / The Hill:   Obama has lost nearly 70 House seats since taking office
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
‘Hundred-year majority’ for House GOP?  —  Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, proclaimed Wednesday that Republicans may have built a “hundred-year majority” in the House.  —  “We're as back to a majority as any of us have seen in our lifetimes.
Discussion: rubber hose and Shakesville
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:   The Democrats' Southern Problem Reaches a New Depth
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Republicans Just Broke Democrats' Blue Wall
Discussion: Conservatives4Palin
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   A stunning tidal wave of change in the Senate
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Climate Change?  An Issue for Losers  —  Ross Douthat nails it in his NY Times blog post-mortem: … Andrew Restuccia notes in Politico: … Will Bunch in the Philadelphia Daily News: … The Keystone pipeline appears to have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, according to the National Journal:
Discussion: National Journal
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Tom Steyer, greens have rough night at the polls
Discussion: The Daily Caller, ABC News and The Hill
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Evaporating Democratic Majority
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Were Skewed Toward Democrats  —  For much of this election cycle, Democrats complained the polls were biased against them.  They said the polls were failing to represent enough minority voters and applying overly restrictive likely-voter screens.  They claimed early-voting data was proving the polls wrong.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
New Outside Groups Prove Worth to Conservative Donors  —  Last fall, Steven Law, the president of the nation's largest Republican “super PAC,” met with two of his party's biggest donors in a Houston office.  Both had given generously to Mr. Law's organization, American Crossroads …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Big win for conservative big money
Katherine Connell / National Review:
Democrats Sink to Pre-Great Depression Levels in State Legislatures  —  In addition to the GOP gains in the U.S., Senate, House and governorships it was an historic night for the party in state legislatures.  —  Here is the summary by Tim Storey of the National Conference of State Legislatures:
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
First Impressions: Historic GOP House Majority  —  It's hard to overstate House Democrats' bad night.  By all measures, Republicans enjoyed an historic night, exceeding pre-election expectations across the country.  There are fewer than ten races where the outcome is in some doubt …
Washington Post:
Transcript: President Obama's Nov. 5 news conference on midterm election results  —  President Obama held a news conference Nov. 5 at the White House to discuss the results of the midterm congressional elections .  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody.  Have a seat.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
President Obama Left Fighting for His Own Relevance  —  WASHINGTON — Two things were clear long before the votes were counted on Tuesday night: President Obama would face a Congress with more Republicans for his final two years in office, and the results would be seen as a repudiation of his leadership.
Jay / Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.com:
Alex Rodriguez's DEA confession: Yes, I used steroids from fake Miami doctor  —  ›  —  ‹  —  For 21 tumultuous months, New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez has defiantly maintained he never used banned substances from a Coral Gables anti-aging clinic …
 
 
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Betsy Woodruff / Slate:
Wisconsin Three-Peat  —  Why no one can beat Scott Walker.
Discussion: Althouse
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The 2014 electorate wasn't just older and whiter than 2012. It also voted more Republican.
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Politico:
Colorado to vote on personhood, again
Discussion: Fox News
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
Lessons for Obama's Final Two Years From Reagan, Clinton and Bush
Larry Mayer / ABC News:
Election Results 2014: Here Are the Key Races That Are Still Too Close to Project
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Monthly:
The New Segregation  —  It's class, not race.  And we know how to solve it.
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Scott first black senator elected in South since Reconstruction
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
27 senators who voted for Obamacare won't be part of new Senate
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Wendy Davis Was The Face Of ‘War On Women’ Politics. How'd That Go?
Discussion: Washington Post
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HICKENLOOPER POISED TO DEFEAT BEAUPREZ FOR COLORADO GOVERNOR