Here’s my column on the election from today’s N.Y. Post:

A COUPLE of big things expired Tuesday night: the usefulness of the trite Red/Blue dichotomy in American politics, and the George W. Bush/Karl Rove dream of the Republican Party holding a “permanent majority.”

But one big new thing was born: the interior West (the eight states off the West Coast: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) as America’s new political swing region.

Conservatives may not realize it yet, but all this will benefit the Republican Party in years to come.

And, of course, I give a roundup of the Republican losses (and close calls) in the West.