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(NATIONAL) -- Have Americans all of a sudden fallen in love with the Republican Party and that is the reason Democrats were taken to the woodshed in such brutal fashion in Tuesday's mid term election? Not quite, argues John Dickerson Slate's chief political correspondent. "The Republican Party had one strategy it followed in nearly every Senate race: run against the president. It paid off...democratic candidates couldn’t get out of the president’s shadow. Every Democratic attempt to localize the races failed," writes Dickerson in a post election analysis. It was President Obama's unpopularity with voters, plus the democratic "coalition" that failed...

Tuesday night on CNN, Anderson Cooper asked former White House press secretary and current CNN correspondent Jay Carney what a Republican takeover would mean for the Obama administration.

If the Senate goes Republican on Tuesday, a majority of Democrats will get their first taste of life in the minority. Only 17 Democrats who could serve in the next Senate were in office eight years ago, the last time the GOP held the levers of power.