Cohen: The Democrats exceeded expectations in U.S. midterms

They were not finished counting the ballots in the eastern United States — and the polls were not even closed in the west — when the canard begin to take flight that the Democrats had blown the midterm elections.
James Carville, the veteran political strategist, declared on CNN that this was “no blue wave.” So did host Jake Tapper. As the party’s stars seemed to falter in Florida, Georgia and Texas, this became conventional wisdom: The Democrats had underperformed.