President Obama’s remarks at his postelection news conference were instructive on his attitude about the election results and his approach going forward. He always pays lip service to hearing the voters’ message when his side loses but then reveals he hears only what he chooses to hear. He said that what stood out to him was that the American people had sent the same message they had sent for the past several elections. How can that be? If he had said the people had sent a similar message to the one they’d sent in 2010, it would have made more...