The Election

OK -- we've won. Whoever "we" is. We may even wind up with a government that works. Or doesn't work in the right ways.

This morning's NYT headline says the Democrats picked up 24 seats. It's now more.

The DCCCC has an ongoing tally. I'm pretty disappointed in some of the results -- Pete Roskam won in IL-06, Marilyn "Marriage Is the Most Important Issue Facing the Country" Musgrave in CO-04, Jean "Murtha is a Coward" Schmidt in OH-02 (very narrowly). It's easy to say that the voters in those districts got what they deserved, but the rest of us don't.

So far, TBogg's predictions seem to be right on target.

Even some of the disappointments have a positive side: the margins on anti-marriage amendments were on average much smaller than in the past (except for Virginia, which is now officially on my boycott list), and three "Red" states handed the conservatives a good slap: South Dakota repealed its abortion law, New Mexico dumped an anti-marriage amendment, and Missouri came out in favor of stem-cell rsearch.

The preznit has called a press conference for this morning. Any bets on whether he's going to declare all Democrats enemy combatants? (Sorry, but sometimes I get a kick out of playing at being a lefty wingnut, mostly because the rightwingers have so much trouble understanding the concept of "playing.")

Damned activist voters! I'm tired of this electoral tyranny!

Update: Faith Exonerated:

Just ran across this post with a much-needed dose of level-headedness from Glenn Greenwald:

Karl Rove isn't all-powerful; today, he is a rejected loser. Republicans don't possess the power to dictate the outcome of elections with secret Diebold software. They can't magically produce Osama bin Laden the day before the election. They don't have the power to snap their fingers and hypnotize zombified Americans by exploiting a New Jersey court ruling on civil unions, or a John Kerry comment, or moronic buzzphrases and slogans designed to hide the truth (Americans heard all about how Democrats would bring their "San Francisco values" and their love of The Terrorists to Washington, and that moved nobody).

All of the hurdles and problems that are unquestionably present and serious -- a dysfunctional and corrupt national media, apathy on the part of Americans, the potent use of propaganda by the Bush administration, voter suppression tactics, gerrymandering and fundraising games -- can all be overcome. They just were.

Q. E. D.