Our in-house Minnesota recount expert takes a look at what’s ahead in the state’s skintight governor’s race.

In other news, George W. Bush claims: “I was a dissenting voice” on the Iraq War.

There are so many stories and themes to pick through in the carnage in the Democratic House caucus that political scientists will spend 20 years sorting it all out. But for right now, here’s a rundown of the biggest surprises and upsets.

Log Cabin Republicans think with the election over they can nudge 4-5 Senate Republicans into voting to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

The Denver Post calls the Colorado Senate race for Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet.

Former Karl Rove protege and U.S. attorney scandal figure Tim Griffin won election last night to the House from Arkansas.

The Seattle Times‘ Jim Brunner gives the inside read on where the uncounted votes in Washington State are coming in from and how that favors Democratic Sen. Patty Murray:

[T]he electoral math seemed to favor the three-term incumbent. She captured 62 percent of the votes counted Tuesday night in King County. It’s estimated nearly 350,000 additional votes remain to be counted there — more than a third of the total uncounted votes statewide.

Here are the latest results from Washington.

A very interesting story out of Iowa where three justices on the Iowa Supreme Court who had ruled in favor of gay marriage were defeated in retention elections.

It’s the first time since Iowa instituted the current retention system for justices in 1962 that any justice lost. Now three go down at the same time due to a fierce campaign by anti-gay outside groups.

Did the “Tea Party” lose the Senate for the GOP?

Any argument that they did is at least somewhat misleading and self-serving for Dems and the Tea Partiers’ Republican establishment opponents. Because you can’t just look at the marquee Tea Partiers that went down. That’s not the whole picture. You also have to take into account how Republicans won in Illinois and Pennsylvania and put up smashing wins in New Hampshire, Indiana and Ohio. Those wins were won on the basis of “Tea Party” intensity.

Having said that, when Tea Partiers won Senate primaries the results were terrible. There’s little question Republicans would have won Delaware if O’Donnell hadn’t been the nominee. Reid would have been much harder pressed to win if not for Angle — though his margin ended up being pretty good. Miller was a disaster in Alaska. Murkowski ended up saving the GOP’s bacon. Miller’s popularity collapsed so dramatically and McAdams (D) was so personally popular that I think he likely would have won if Murkowski hadn’t decided to run as a write-in. Colorado I’m less sure about since Buck — though given the Tea Party label and the guy who knocked off the establishment choice — simply wasn’t in the same league of cartoonishness as the other three. But you can make at least a plausible argument that each of those seats would have been gettable with better candidates.

Former President Bush says the worst moment of his presidency involved Kanye West.