Press reports say President Obama didn’t watch election returns on Tuesday. And while he didn’t get any “3 a.m. phone calls” about the results, I am sure at some point he heard the results and was not too happy when he did.

Voters whooped Democrats and Barack Obama in two key gubernatorial match-ups this week. Many will draw their own lessons from last Tuesday’s thumping in Virginia and New Jersey, but one thing is clear–voters are leery of extreme partisanship, the kind that governs from one side of the aisle; the kind of behavior–despite promises to the contrary during the 2008 campaign–we’ve witnessed from President Obama and the Democrats in Congress all year.