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Democrats are stunned, aghast, dismayed and so on by the GOP victory that roiled them Tuesday in the Great Shellacking of 2014.

Inevitably, there will be big changes. Consider, for instance, the Democratic congressional staffers who will be out of work in just two months and the ecstatic Republican aides-in-waiting who are now racing those rsums up to the Hill to fill those jobs.

The turnover may not be as huge as in 2010, after the midterm rout that President Obama described as a shellacking. Thats because the GOP expanded its huge House majority by only 10 seats this time not the 60 seats it picked up four years ago. (Hey, at some point theres just so many seats out there.)

So with new office staffs and some extra committee slots, lets say that might amount to somewhere around 125 jobs in the House for Republicans. The bigger gains will come in the Senate, which might see, in the end, eight GOP pickups.

If so, were looking at about 200 jobs on personal staffs. Depending on the new committee breakdowns, Republicans will need more than 100 new committee aides. And then there are the leadership offices, where the flip from minority to majority could provide GOP job-seekers with 40more slots to look at.

In all, based on a back-of-the-envelope look, perhaps around 500 jobs will be switching to Republican staffers.

And the terrain is particularly ominous for the Dems looking for work in the private sector.

They are really going to have to stand out, said Jim Manley, former spokesman for the outgoing Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, and now at QGA Public Affairs, cause the recent focus on K Street with hiring Republicans is only going to get more pronounced in the days and weeks to come.

And if the Republicans win the 2016 presidential race ...

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