*Lessons From Election Night, by Ed Morrissey.

“New Jersey just taught Democrats in Congress a big lesson — Obama can’t get them re-elected.  Being the President’s “partner” on his radical agenda is not a winning position; it wasn’t for Corzine in what should have been a secure blue state, and it certainly won’t be in moderate or conservative districts and states held by Democrats in the House and Senate.”

*The Lessons of Election ’09, by Jazz Shaw.

*The Strange Case of NY23, by Roger L. Simon.

“So why – in what was clearly a Republican year – did Hoffman lose…

…Well… I might as well say it… social conservatism. America is a fiscally conservative country – now perhaps more than ever, and with much justification – but not a socially conservative one. No, I don’t mean to say it’s socially liberal. It’s not. It’s socially laissez-faire (just as its mostly fiscally laissez-faire). Whether we’re pro-choice, pro-life or whatever we are, most of us want the government out of our bedrooms, just as we want it out of our wallets.”

Indeed.

*A Death Blow to ObamaCare, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann.

*The Obama Magic is Fading, by Glenn Reynolds.

*The Comeback Begins, at NRO.