Analysis: Election night's biggest losers (Politico)

Glenn Thrush Glenn Thrush – 2 hrs 57 mins ago AP – President Bush makes a statement congratulating President-elect Barack Obama, and called for a smooth … On the face of it, Tuesday’s winners seem obvious: Barack Obama, congressional Democrats, Big Labor, liberals. Yet the ultimate verdict on the victors will come not from a single night of election returns but from the actions the winners take to remedy the nation’s economic ills and extricate it from two long and costly wars. Picking Tuesday’s losers is easier: Republicans, their allies and their ideas. That’s why we’ve flipped the winners-and-losers list below to read losers first, winners second and — as always — Hillary Rodham Clinton in a category all of her own. She’s not exactly a loser, despite her humbling primary defeat. And she’s not quite a winner, even though... [read full story]