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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, November 7th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, November 7th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

In elections on Tuesday, Terry McCalliff barely won in Virginia.

Bill de Blasio had a massive victory in New York City,

and Governor Chris Christie cruised a re-election in New Jersey.

I did not seek a second term to do small things. I sought a second term to finish the

job. Now watch me do it. That was Christy on Tuesday night. Hendra Kurtzberg and Ryan Lissa are here to

talk about what voters are telling the two parties. So Rick, I want to start with you just to get a

post-mortem. Is there anything sort of

broad we can glean about the tea party, for instance, in some of these results we've seen?

Well, I'm not sure if we can glean it from the results, exactly, because McAuliffe didn't do quite as

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