Obama pledges 8216;midcourse corrections8217;

The president himself wasn8217;t on the ballot last week,but his Democratic Party took a beating. Republicans won control of the House,eroded the Democratic majority in the Senate and made huge gains in state legislatures.

Obama said he will not change his determination to invest money in education,infrastructure and clean energy at a time when the pressures in Washington are to slash spending. But he said the election 8220;requires me to make some midcourse corrections and adjustments.8221;

He said how those will play out over the next several months will depend on his talks with Republicans.