"The night's biggest loser was the national conservative political machine -- the wealthy tax-cutters at the Club for Growth and the Palin-Limbaugh-Beck complex."

-- Washington Post pundit E.J. Dionne Jr., on GOP gains in Virginia and New Jersey and a Democratic win in a New York race.

"Tuesday's elections should put a scare into red state Democrats -- and a few blue state ones, too."

--Republican political operative Karl Rove

"The real story here is, I think, this thing is ambiguous."

-- White House adviser David Axelrod