As Democrats streamed to the polls Tuesday, their party’s leaders were beginning to ask themselves: Is it possible to have too much of a good thing?

That thing is boundless liberal enthusiasm, matched by antipathy for President Trump and the Republican congressional majorities. Despite the Resistance, the Cook Political Report moved four races back toward the GOP.

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