Election night has come and gone with the usual mix of elation or misery, allocated on the basis of whose ox has just been gored. Now come the seemingly inexhaustible homiletic exercises in post-mortem analysis. In that spirit, a few thoughts:

The risk of course is that they will have to own the results of their policies, and hope that voters will not, as they have done in the past, reject the eschatological presumptions that liberal policies can improve upon life itself. In two years, and in four years, the question before voters will be, “What has come about, economically and socially in the state, since the last election?” For which the Democrats alone will need to answer.