"Though party officials typically dance around the unseemly issue of gerrymandering..."

"... this report is surprisingly candid and unabashed."

Is Nate Silver "concerned that during future elections, the accuracy of your predictions will lull readers into a mindset of 'it has been foretold, therefore I needn’t bother to vote'"?

Yes, "a bit." Did Nate Silver "enjoy getting the ire of pundits (not the few who actually critiqued your method, models, or a...

Haley Barbour wants to give the GOP "a very serious proctology exam."

"We need to look everywhere.... We have to look at everything in depth.... and be brutally honest." That's perilously close to...

"We have always had these dense urban corridors that are extremely Democratic."

"It's kind of an urban fact, and you are looking at the extreme end of it in Philadelphia."

Look how many groups moved toward the GOP.

Surprising! It doesn't add up to a victory, but there are clues in there about how the GOP ought to change. Here 's another nice gr...

"Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better or is this real?"

Megyn Kelly asked Karl Rove — as hilariously/painfully magnified by Jon Stewart: [VIEW CLIP HERE .] As the tags below indicate, there's ...

"Advisers to Mitt Romney insisted Wednesday that they were surprised by the scale of their loss to President Barack Obama..."

"... while big-time GOP donors griped about the campaign’s unflinching confidence in the final stretch." “They ran a 20th century ...

"Allen West was quite a character to run against... And I’ll keep it at that..."

"... and hopefully that’s the last time I ever need to mention his name too." Mia Love lost too , so last night was rough news for...

"I don't really care about politics. What I care about is how the pissant goings-on of political people affects the important things in this life..."

"... such as family, comfort, peace, security, art, beauty, freedom and happiness. And all of those things are further imperiled by las...

"Most of the nation shifted to the right in Tuesday's vote, but not far enough to secure a win for Mitt Romney."

Caption on the front page of the NYT right now , under a cool graphic of the U.S. map with flowing red and blue arrows.

"1,583 COMMENTS."

Hey! Thanks for all the comments on last night's election live-blog , from which I absented myself after a post at 8:04, noting the obvi...

It's morning in Obama's Second Term America.

How are you feeling? If you didn't get what you wanted for Electionmas, how are you dealing with your disappointment? Me, I'm an opt...

Live-blogging election night.

5:12 Central Time: Won't you hang out with me while we watch the results come in? Here 's a helpful map, showing what times the poll...

"For every inch above normal rainfall, overall turnout drops by a little less than 1%, but Democratic turnout drops by 2.5%."

"Every inch above average snowfall decreases turnout by 0.5%. Since the water equivalent of 10 inches of snow usually equals an inch of...

"Are the Democrats trying to steal Pennsylvania?"

Power Line is asking ... and we all should be monitoring.

Romney trouncing Obama in Ohio.

So far. UPDATE: There are questions about whether these are real.

The first votes are in... and it's a tie.

"Ten voters in the tiny village of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, cast the first Election Day votes of the 2012 general elections at 12...

Playing out the Electoral College counts.

A great graphic depiction. (Click on options at the top, picking states and see the various paths to victory.)

Bob Dylan in Madison: "We tried to play good tonight since the president was here today."

"Don’t believe the media. I think it’s going to be a landslide." Spoken from the stage last night in Madison, in the middle of his...

"Romney campaign internal polling puts Republican nominee up ONE POINT in Ohio and TIED in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin."

"Internal poll show Romney trailing in Nevada, reflected in a consensus among senior advisers that Obama will probably win the state. E...