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--Mark Kirk defeats Alexi Giannoulias in Obama’s home town.


--Rand Paul beats back the smears to win decisively.


--John Kasich wins gubernatorial race in Ohio, key for 2012


--Pat Toomey beats Joe Sestak to reclaim traitor Arlen Specter’s seat.


--The utterly despicable Alan Grayson (38%) is trounced in Florida.


--California defeats marijuana legalization ballot measure.

Identity Politics
--Marco Rubio (Cuban-American) wins Senate seat in Florida.


--Nikki Haley (Indian-American, female) wins governor race in South Carolina.


--Col. Alan West (African-American) wins House seat in Florida.

All are Republicans and all won because THEY WERE THE BEST CANDIDATES!

Fruitless
But Democrats conceded that their plans to increase voter turnout did not meet expectations, party strategists said, and extraordinary efforts that Mr. Obama made in the final days of the campaign appeared to have borne little fruit. (NYT, 11/3/10)

After earlier Obama get-out-the-vote failures (e.g. Scott Brown), you would think Dems would have learned.

Oops!
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen believes Democrats will hold onto the House, despite polls suggesting otherwise. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," the Maryland congressman contended that pundits should hold off from pronouncing an end to Democratic control of the House before voters go to the polls Tuesday. "It’s not a lost cause," he said. (Politico.com, 10/31/10)

Didn’t Joe Biden also predict victory?

Tears for Fears
Yesterday, the day of an historic election, here is what the Washington Post opinion writers chose to discuss:

--Richard Cohen: Sarah Palin, notwithstanding that so far as we can determine, she is not running for office.

--Eugene Robinson: the angry Tea Party, which just might be racist.

--Dana Milbank: election forecasts are often wrong.

--Anne Applebaum: because Al Qaeda’s latest bomb plot failed, we don’t need to worry about them as much or devote as many resources to protecting the public against them.

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