ED MORRISSEY: Lessons From Election Night. “Obama will still be president for another three years, but the mystique is gone. New Jersey just taught Democrats in Congress a big lesson — Obama can’t get them re-elected.”

Yeah, that’s my take, too.

UPDATE: More from Michael Barone. “Affluent suburban voters moved sharply toward Republicans in 2009. . . . The 2009 election results are certainly not going to make it easy for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to round up the needed 218 votes for Democrats’ health care bills.”