Election Fallout: What It Means: "There is no silver lining here, and there is no 'yes, but...' This was a conservative win, across the country, and it was a big and important one. And it will have dramatic, and longlasting, repercussions.... There were so many issues, so many problems, so many mini-disasters leading into this election, and yet the outcome -- and we will wait for the more in-depth analysis, here, but the first analyses seem very, very solid -- indicates voting took place largely among social issues, not national/international events. That, simply put, is astonishing. And the results are going to be dramatic."

Election Fallout: What It Means: "There is no silver lining here, and there is no 'yes, but...' This was a conservative win, across the country, and it was a big and important one. And it will have dramatic, and longlasting, repercussions.... There were so many issues, so many problems, so many mini-disasters leading into this election, and yet the outcome -- and we will wait for the more in-depth analysis, here, but the first analyses seem very, very solid -- indicates voting took place largely among social issues, not national/international events. That, simply put, is astonishing. And the results are going to be dramatic."