I'd planned to take my usual Thursday off from politics, but changed my mind after stopping by electoral-vote.com, which presents its first updates after the election on its blog.

Keeping in mind that the site is center-left, you mileage will vary from the comprehensive news roundup, through the humorous look at Republican reaction (Don Bacon (R-Blue Dot) was a funny touch.), to a post possibly exemplifying the very hubris the roundup warned against (Nationalize SpaceX and deport Musk? Voters just rejected Trump's agenda. I can't tell whether this is a joke in today's era of Poe's Law applying to both "sides" of the political spectrum.)

I'll leave you with samples from the news roundup post, which includes warnings against more of the same from Republicans:

It turns out that cults have a shelf life and when the cultist-in-chief falls, he takes the whole cult down with him. Republicans are about to learn this the hard way. In 2028, they can offer more of the same, but the voters don't want more of the same. But that is all the Republicans have. Going back to a kinder, gentler George H.W. Bush party would be quite a trick. That isn't what the Republican Party stands for anymore. Does it stand for anything? In 2020, the Republican Party didn't even bother writing a platform. It just said: "Whatever Donald Trump wants, that's what we want." That's not a political party. That's a cult of personality. Does the institutional Republican Party actually stand for anything? ...

... and against Democrat hubris:

Democrats read the wrong message into the midterms at their peril. They didn't win. The other guys lost. There is a huge difference. People don't like the Democrats. Millions of people see them as weak and woke and think they can't even tell the difference between a boy and a girl. They got more senators, representatives, governors, and state legislators because the voters thought the other guys were corrupt and raised the price of gas. That is not a winning formula for 2028...

The section about dummymandering is interesting, and shows that Trump's gerrymandering did indeed backfire in Texas.

-- CAV