Outside the Beltway

The Republicans are currently up 60 seats and, Jim Geraghty notes, “We’re still waiting on official calls or concessions in 11 House races; all of them feature Democrat incumbents.”

Republicans either lost or barely won a whole lot of races because their vote was split with minor party candidates.

Democrats won the governorship, all 10 House seats, and all statewide races in Massachusetts.

In yet another move designed to take the fun out of being a kid, San Francisco has banned the Happy Meal.

George W. Bush’s new memoir reveals that he briefly considered replaced Dick Cheney as Vice-President before the 2004 elections. His decision not to do so reveals much about the relationship between Presidents and Vice-Presidents in modern American politics.

Despite the Democrats sweeping quite literally every statewide office in California, Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization ballot issue, lost by 10 points.

The 2010 electorate was whiter, older, and more conservative than that of 2008.

In my home state of Virginia, which has two Democratic Senators and went for Barack Obama in 2008, Republicans are poised to take four House districts held by Democrats in the last Congress.

In my former home state of Alabama, Republicans won every major contest, save the one House seat specifically drawn to ensure a Democratic victory.

The enthusiasm for Tea Party candidates likely helped the House Republican wave. But it also likely cost the GOP four Senate seats that it would otherwise have won — and thus the majority.

Senator DeMint provides the basic answers to my Tea Party/GOP questions from earlier today.

GOP to take the House.

Exit polls reveal a shocking bit of information: voters aren’t happy with either party.

After three months, Rupert Murdoch’s strategy of walling off the Times websites isn’t looking so smart.

The governator has terminated the use of welfare cards at medical marijuana shops, psychics, bail bond establishments, bingo halls, cruise ships and tattoo parlors.

A question about the next Congress.

While Matt Yglesias is right that talk about “Realignment” after a single election is ridiculous, there have indeed been realigning elections in U.S. history.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson takes a look at the Tea Party movement and claims to find racism.

Harvard’s Jack Hamilton extols “Robert Plant’s Second Act” for the Atlantic. In so doing, he gives us an interesting look at the more important First Act.

We’re probably just one big scare away from mandatory full-body scans.

She didn’t gain national prominence until late August, and she’s going to most likely lost by a wide margin tonight, but Christine O’Donnell received more coverage from the media than any other candidate running in 2010.

A Chicago voter is less than thrilled with the political slate for which he’s voting today.

Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson To Launch Presidential Bid In February?

Is the public anger at Obama really just papered over racism?

Who are the Tea Party candidates and who will be the Tea Party office holders?

The British press takes a look at America’s Midterm Elections.

Ok, so we’ve been talking about the Tea Party for months. What will that label means once we actually have elections and move on to the governing bit?

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg thinks a President independent of either political party would be a good idea. Is he right?