Almost all of the journalists and pundits predicted that the Democrats would retain control of the Senate in last Tuesday's election. Now that the election is over, the journalists and pundits are trying to figure out where they and the Democrats went wrong.

Here are election postmortems from:

E. J. Dionne,

Jonathan Alter,

MyDD.com,

Talking Points Memo,

Paul Krugman, and

ABC News.com's The Note.

Meanwhile, The Scrum looks at how the 2002 election results will affect the 2004 Presidential elections.