Josh Goodman is a former staff writer for GOVERNING..
E-mail: mailbox@governing.comIf you had to design tonight's results to cause painful soul-searching in both major parties, wouldn't you have had Republicans win the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, but Democrats win New York-23?

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