The election is still two years away, but at this rate, will there be any incumbent Democrats left in the U.S. Senate by 2012? Another high-profile Democrat has announced he will not seek re-election.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) joins Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in announcing they will not face voters in 2012, which will be a tougher year for Democrats than 2010 ... and we know how well that went for the Dems.

Sen. Bingaman to retire - The Hill's Ballot Box

What's worse than a shellacking? Democrats just might find out in 2012 when they lose the Senate and the White House.

Bad news Democrats _ 2012 could be worse than 2010 | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Kenneth Hanner recaps the many successes of the conservative movement in 2010.

Top 10 Conservative Successes In 2010 - HUMAN EVENTS

Twenty-five Democratic state legislators have switched to GOP | Washington Examiner

Amazing what a historic election defeat will do to humble even the most arrogant of politicians. After two years of refusing to work with Republicans, Barack Obama is now willing to compromise with the GOP.

RealClearPolitics - Video - Obama To Republicans: "We Must Compromise"

And the hits just keep on coming!

From The Associated Press:

Staggering Election Day losses are not the Democratic Party's final indignity this year.

At least 13 state lawmakers in five states have defected to Republican ranks since the Nov. 2 election, adding to already huge GOP gains in state legislatures. And that number could grow as next year's legislative sessions draw near.

The defections underscore dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party — particularly in the South — and will give Republicans a stronger hand in everything from pushing a conservative fiscal and social agenda to redrawing political maps.

Republicans pick up another House seat.

Another One Bites The Dust - HUMAN EVENTS

Half of Americans want ObamaCare repealed. Just wait until a provision that requires anyone who does business in the U.S. to fill out a 1099 form for the IRS kicks in. You'll hear the outcry loud and clear, even if you're a tone-deaf Democrat.

From a new column by Daniel Henninger in The Wall Street Journal:

Calvin Coolidge once said, "The chief business of the American people is business." The Democrats just lost America because they forgot that.

On second thought, you can't forget what you never knew. The Democrats running things the past two years proved they have no clue about the business of business. In their world, the real world of the private economy is an abstraction, a political figment.

Daniel Henninger says that the Democrats decoupled from business - and lost the election.

Exhibit A: Along the road to ObamaCare, the party's planners inserted into the bill the now- famous 1099 provision, requiring businesses to do an IRS report for any transaction over $600 annually. No member of Congress, White House staffer or party flunky thought to say, "Oh, wow, this 1099 requirement will crush people running their own businesses. Are we sure we want to do this?" Yes, and that 1099 fiasco is a metaphor now for the modern Democratic Party.

Read the full column at the newspaper's website.

Columnist Gil Spencer offers his list of SE Pennsylvania winners and losers from the midterm elections on Nov. 2.

Spencer: Winners and losers from Election Day - delcotimes.com

From an Associated Press news analysis of the Nov. 2 election results:

America spoke. So what exactly did the country say it wanted beyond an end to one-party rule?

Smaller government. Less spending. More jobs.

Now the big question: Will our tone-deaf president hear the voice of the people?

Voters sent a message to Obama - pottsmerc.com

George F. Will analyzes Tuesday's election results and concludes that it was a referendum on Barack Obama's failed presidency.

From his latest column:

It is amazing the ingenuity Democrats invest in concocting explanations of voter behavior that erase what voters always care about, and this year more than ever — ideas. This election was a nationwide recoil against Barack Obama's idea of unlimited government.

Read the full column at the link below:

George Will: Liberals, take note - pottsmerc.com

Charles Krauthammer on the meaning of Tuesday's GOP sweep:

The Republicans won by default. And their prize is nothing more than a two-year lease on the House. The building was available because the previous occupant had been evicted for arrogant misbehavior and, by rule, alas, the House cannot be left vacant.

The president, however, remains clueless.

Read the full column at the link below:

A Return to the Norm - HUMAN EVENTS

Republicans picked up five Senate seats on Tuesday but there's no way to win the Senate majority because of several victories by Democrats. The best the GOP can hope for is a 50-50 ties, but the Republicans would have to win every race that still hasn't been decided.

Republicans scored big wins, taking Senate seats from Democrats in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arkansas, North Dakota and Indiana. But Democrats held on to seats in California and West Virginia.

Republican Marco Rubio emerged victorious in a three-way race for Florida's U.S. Senate seat, beating back Democrat Kendrick Meek and Gov. Charlie Crist, who pulled an Arlen Specter and bolted the GOP when it became clear he would lose to Rubio.

Marco Rubio Wins Florida Senate Seat

Republicans pick up the first of the 10 seats they need to take the Senate majority.

From The Associated Press:

Former Sen. Dan Coats easily dispatched Rep. Brad Ellsworth in Indiana to win back the seat he voluntarily gave up a dozen years ago.

In Kentucky, where Paul was making his first run for political office, he prevailed over Democrat Jack Conway.

The Indiana seat marked a gain for Republicans, and the Kentucky race was the first indication that voters were ready to embrace at least some of the Republican candidates whom Democrats had pilloried for months as being too extreme to win elections.

Interviews with voters revealed an extraordinarily sour electorate, stressed financially and poorly disposed toward the president, the political parties and the federal government.