Defeated State Senator Jim Lembke (R-Lemay) had a bit of a meltdown over President Obama's reelection earlier this week:

Maybe, Jim, the constituents who voted for someone else didn't particulary appreciate type of "leadership." After all, saying that Barack Obama "embraces evil and hates our founding principles" when you have precisely zero evidence of either isn't exactly what the majority of your district or Americans happen to believe.

Happy Place: "Apparently this election was not only divided along racial and financial lines, but on intelligence lines as well. Our favorite thing about this graphic is that the data Kenny used came from Fox Business, so if you're a Romney voter, this is basically Neil Cavuto accidentally calling you an idiot. Of course, Nevada voted for Obama despite being one of the least educated states, but we can probably chalk that up to the fact that he was the safest bet." 

Ray Hartman reacts to this Tuesday's election results in St. Louis Magazine: 

Missouri is not a red state. It’s not a blue state.

It’s a white state.

That’s the arithmetic message of the 2012 elections. Five of the six statewide Democratic candidates won their races—three by landslide margins—on the same ballot on which President Barack Obama, their standard-bearer, was crushed by nearly 264,000 votes, or 9.6 percent.

If one glances at the divided national map, it would be natural to categorize Missouri as a “red state,” and a solid one at that. The president lost the state by more than he lost Georgia. And voters sent ridiculous majorities of Republicans—in every sense of the word—to the state legislature.

But that doesn’t account for the vast disparity between the performance of five of the Democrats who won statewide office and the man who was reelected by a landslide electoral margin. Yes, it can be argued that the reelection of Sen. Claire McCaskill—a longtime Obama ally—was aided by having run against an unhinged person. Write off her 15.5 percent victory margin as an outlier.