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What Krugman said
Corrente — Not that this will stop the coming deluge of BLLFOV, but: …there’s not much evidence in the vote for anything besides a broad shift to Democrats, almost the same (~8%) across all the states, and probably a reaction to the state of the economy, stupid…. basically there was a national wave against Republicans, suggesting that we don’t need a complex narrative.

Leftover links
The Sideshow — ... the Claude Rains Memorial Gambling Awareness Award to Shephard Smith of Fox News, who can't figure out where those McCain supporters who were present for the Republican nominee's concession speech got the idea that it was acceptable to be nasty about a Democrat in public. Yes, I failed to link to "Fafblog Election Day Special! Know Your Swing States" in a timely fashion. Some interesting posts up at Krugman's blog in the last couple of days: The monster years, Too much explanation, Meanwhile, in an alternative universe, and Zell Miller was ...

An Uniform Progressive Shift
Shadow of the Hegemon — That's what happened, according to Andrew Gelman: the whole country moved about 4 to 5% to the left. It's not a realignment in the sense of geographical distribution... it was pretty much the whole country. Good to remember. (H/T NobelPrizeWinningEconomist Krugman)