Soros lost bigtime in Ohio. And Silvers legislature power grab in NY went down in flames. There WERE no big losses for Repubs.
Turn off your TV and quit reading the paper. You're too easily influenced by the spin.
I haven't read a single newspaper, nor watched TV since the election. I've merely checked the results online.
The bottom line, is we lost virtually every important race. All ballot inititiatives ( minus Texas, which was meaningless, the libs were fools to ever think they would beat it, and Ohio, which never had a dogs chance in hell anyway), as well as the King County Executive race, after the guy blatantly fixed an election.
Face it, virtually ALL the California initiatives would have passed a year ago. And Washington has voted down gas tax increases TWICE, and has voted for no less then 8 tax reducing initiatives in the past 10 years. This time, we got nothing. The fact that they are blue states is relevant, but you can't just write them off because of that or not think about the issue.
I think you add all this to Hackett, you have yourself a situation. Time to panic? Hardly. But I think it's time for some reflection.