Midterm

Dan Merica at WP:

The scope of the generational wipeout Republicans experienced on Tuesday is truly staggering.

Democrats won nearly every competitive Senate race. They are well on the way to a House majority that approaches 250 seats. The party swept key gubernatorial races, including the race in Nevada that was called yesterday, and could have total control of state government in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.

To put it bluntly: It was Republican annihilation up and down the ballot, a rout that will have long-lasting implications for President Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

Nate Cohn at NYT:

At the beginning of this year’s midterm campaign, it seemed that everything would have to go right for Democrats to win the Senate.

On Tuesday, everything went right for Democrats, and more.

This was an electoral tsunami: a complete collapse of the Republican coalition and the largest victory by either party in half a century.

When all the vote is in and counted, Democrats will win the national popular vote in all House races combined by 13 percentage points, according to our estimates. That would be the largest margin of victory since the post-Watergate elections in 1974 and 1976.

And by one measure, it’s even larger: Democrats could flip as many as seven Senate seats that leaned Republican by more than 10 points in the previous presidential election.

There’s simply no modern precedent for either party to do so well in states that had leaned so heavily toward the other side.