GOP victory was easy, now the hard part

The GOP victory Election Night was the easy part. Now comes the real work: forging an agenda that will solidify Republican gains over the next two years. Exit polls make clear that dissatisfaction with President Obama drove this election. As the president famously said in October, “I am not on the ballot this fall. … But make no mistake: These policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”

The president’s words came true, but not quite in the way he intended. Come 2016, however, Republicans will have to run on what they’ve accomplished legislatively and what a different agenda a Republican would bring to the White House. But the electorate will be significantly broader than the one that went to the polls on Tuesday.