Last night's election results were a wholesale repudiation of extreme and divisive Republican policies, from immigration and women's reproductive rights to ballot access and the treatment of public employees.

From the defeat of the Republican leader in Arizona who was behind the state's anti-immigration policies to decisive losses for Republicans on ballot measures in Maine, Ohio, and Mississippi, Republicans were rebuked for their partisan overreach and for their anti-worker, anti–middle class, anti-immigrant, and anti-women policies.

As bad a night as it was for Republicans, it was a big night for Democrats. We won on both the policy front and on the organizing front as well—showing a turnout operation, particularly in Ohio, that gives Democrats a boost and an edge going into 2012.

It was also a thorough repudiation of the leadership of Mitt Romney. Romney was the first Republican candidate to go anti-immigrant in the Republican debates. Yet the Republican leader of anti-immigration efforts in Arizona—the most powerful politician in the state, the author of SB 1070, and the president of the state Senate—lost his seat after Democrats gathered the signatures to get a recall election on the ballot.

Mitt Romney supported Issue 2 in Ohio—the law John Kasich passed to restrict bargaining rights for public employees and that law was repealed by the voters in a decisive defeat for Kasich and Romney.

Romney supported passage of personhood amendments that would ban a woman's right to choose and restrict access to fertility treatments and birth control. That amendment was soundly defeated in Mississippi last night.

The entire Republican approach and agenda for the past year was soundly rejected last night. The party's assault on voter's rights, women's rights, and workers' rights—the hallmark of the GOP agenda in Congress and in the states—was turned back by the voters. It was a stinging rebuke to everyone from the unpopular Republican governor of Ohio to John Boehner and Mitt Romney.

Read the full memo about last night's results here.