Many people are dropping cable TV, but it's not clear why, except that it's too expensive. That was my reason. Is it Netflix? But they don't offer much live sports. Or any?

In Tuesday's elections, Arizona banned affirmative action in state government, including public colleges and universities. Not sure what that really means in a practical sense.

Law professor blog rankings, minus Instapundit.

AP: How will the new Congress affect the stock market in 2011?

Popular Mechanics: You can replace your laptop with an iPad. I'm not convinced. It involves too many workarounds. But I do like the iPad.

RealClearPolitics recalls this story:

Last January, retiring Arkansas Democratic Rep. Marion Berry told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette that he worried about overconfidence in the White House regarding their prospects for avoiding a midterm election blowout.
"The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in '94 was you've got me,'" Berry said. "We're going to see how much difference that makes now."

Yes, now we see.

Michael Barone's thoughts on the election results.

Tsunami

It was a conservative reaction of a size not seen in decades. Blanche Lincoln lost. Tim Griffin won Arkansas' second district. Rick Crawford won in the first district. All of Bill Clinton's campaigning amounted to nothing. The next House will be controlled by the GOP and will toss out Pelosi. The Senate is almost evenly divided. Krauthammer says the Obama agenda is dead. He experimented with hyper-liberalism and the country said NO.

Ann Althouse: "It's so sad for the Democrats. They gave us so many things. Gifts. Expensive gifts. That we didn't want. That they bought with our money."

In Arkansas three constitutional offices went Republican: Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, and Commissioner of State Lands. Four of six Congressional seats were won by Republicans -- three House and one Senate. Mike Ross kept his seat because he woke up in time to vote against Obamacare. Republicans also did well in the legislature. We've seen nothing like this since Reconstruction.

Jason Tolbert sums up the night: Republicans won big.

Today is election day, the day we have either been waiting for or dreading. I'm ready for the election to be over one way or the other.

When I went to vote, I found the polling place almost deserted. Not many voters present. Last time I was there, it was crowded. Not sure what that means. Driving past it later, the number of cars seemed not to have changed much.

However, the early voting in Arkansas was heavy.

Walter Russell Mead: "This is not a good place for a great country to be.  I am glad that Democratic hubris is getting a well deserved rebuke; I am only sorry that the consequence may be to reinforce GOP smugness."