GOP On Track for Huge Friggin’ House Majority, Polls Overestimated Democrats’ Support, Iraq Enlists Iranian General Against ISIS: P.M. Links

President Obama
took to the airwaves to concede that “Republicans had a good
night” and to call on the expanded GOP majority to work with him.
Hmmm…Define “work with…”
With election results trickling in, the Republican Party is on
track to
score its largest majority in the House of Representatives
since 1947, and possibly since the late 1920s. State legislative
wins are
equally historic.
One of those additions to the House is
Mia Love, a black, Republican woman elected from Utah.
If Democrats were blindsided by the election results, they can
blame polls that
consistently overestimated their support by about four
points.
Voters in four states embraced
minimum wage increases, while those in two states plus D.C.
went for
legalizing marijuana. The grass will be a comfort when those
entry-level jobs become scarce.
American gun laws continue in divergent directions as a
Washington measure to
tighten background checks passes and Alabamans
amend their constitution to subject any and all restrictions on
the right to bear arms to strict scrutiny.
Iraq
enlisted an Iranian general to help in the war against ISIS.
Yes, really.
María Teresa Romero Ramo, the Spanish nurse who contracted
Ebola from a patient, has been
cured and released from the hospital.