Maggie's Farm

FEMA: Disorganized federal workers add to mayhem

The Death of Ordinary Decency

The polls were fairly accurate

California Passes Prop 30, Raises Taxes

Major Regulations for Health Reform Coming Soon

The brutal truth for the GOP and the conservatives: The electorate has shifted

Hope Over Experience - A divided country gives Obama a second chance.

Michael Barone: Wrong, but Still Smart

Dick Morris: I Was 'Wrong,' Blames Voter Models

Bozell: A Dreadful Media Campaign

How Romney Lost And three lessons for conservatives going forward.

In Boston, stunned Romney supporters struggle to explain defeat

Redstate: Status Quo Ante

Karl Rove may be a big loser tonight, but his brand of politics is here to stay.

McCain (h/t Vanderleun):

The list of fools who have brought this disaster upon us certainly also will include New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the gelatinous clown who (a) hogged up a prime time spot at the Republican convention to sing his own praises; (b) embraced Obama as the hero of Hurricane Sandy; and (c) then refused to appear at campaign events in support of Romney's presidential campaign. Good luck with the remainder of your political future, governor. It is unlikely Republicans shall soon forget your perfidious betrayal.

Puerto Rico votes for statehood:

“We’re doing okay, but we could do better. We would receive more benefits, a lot more financial help.”

"I like to be in America, everything free in America..."

Reeling conservatives face ‘recalibration’ at their core - Republicans reassess makeup, tactics, war image

‘Blame Bush’ Worked

Harsanyi:

The electorate is complicated, and factors of culture and geography can dictate party identification more than any specific policy. And yes, the Republicans rolled out some ghastly candidates. But that shouldn’t fool anyone; there’s been a fundamental shift in how Americans view government’s role in society, and the GOP is losing the argument.

There was no theoretical hope peddling this time around. There was a record. And Barack Obama also promised the most explicitly left-wing agenda in presidential history — more government, more taxes, more dependency, more bailouts, more regulations — and he won easily. He promised universal health care, more crony “investments” in proven economic losers, more interference in markets — yet he cruised.

Conservatives may be shocked by statist slogans such as the Democratic National Convention’s “government’s the only thing that we all belong to,” and they may be scandalized when they hear a candidate say “you didn’t build that,” but their neighbors … well, not so much. When you can’t beat a candidate who — judging him on his own terms — owns both a brutal economic record on jobs (this is the first time since FDR that a president has won re-election with an unemployment rate this high) and the feeblest economic recovery in the nation’s history, it’s time to rethink what you’re doing.

 NYT:

...as concerned as the White House was during the last 30 days of the campaign, its polls never showed Mr. Obama slipping behind Mr. Romney, aides said. The president was helped in no small part by the tremendous amount of money the campaign built up, which had permitted him to pound his Republican rival before he had ever had a chance to fully introduce himself to the nation.