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Bill Maher just outed Republican party chair Ken Mehlman as gay on Larry King Live

UPDATE: CNN had YouTube pull down the video, send me a cease and desist letter, and they even edited their transcript. Fortunately you can still the video on the Huffington Post.

Oh my.



Sorry about the video quality. I had to re-record it with my itty-bitty camera. But it gets the job done.

And let me just say, if Mr. Mehlman wasn't toast after last night, I suspect he is now. I wouldn't be surprised if the religious right is wondering if closeted gays in the upper reaches of the GOP didn't help throw the election for the Dems. Ken and Karl just oversaw the dismantling of the Republican majority in bouth houses of Congress. As the commercial says: Priceless. Read More......

Mission Accomplished

There is no video, just sound. Enjoy.

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BREAKING - AP: "Democrats Take Control of the Senate"

The long national nightmare is over.

Democrats wrested control of the Senate from Republicans Wednesday with an upset victory in Virginia, giving the party complete domination of Capitol Hill for the first time since 1994.

The tide is now so against Allen, I think he concedes later tonight. Everyone is turning against him.

Okay, the AP story has been updated, there's more now:

The Associated Press contacted election officials in all 134 localities where voting occurred, obtaining updated numbers Wednesday. About half the localities said they had completed their postelection canvassing and nearly all had counted outstanding absentees. Most were expected to be finished by Friday.

The new AP count showed Webb with 1,172,538 votes and Allen with 1,165,302, a difference of 7,236. Virginia has had two statewide vote recounts in modern history, but both resulted in vote changes of no more than a few hundred votes.

An adviser to Allen, speaking on condition of anonymity because his boss had not formally decided to end the campaign, said the senator wanted to wait until most of canvassing was completed before announcing his decision, possibly as early as Thursday evening.

The adviser said that Allen was disinclined to request a recount if the final vote spread was similar to that of election night.

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Bob Novak concedes that Dems won Senate

From the Evans-Novak Political Report, apparently only available by email, so no link. A rather blistering assessment of the election results. You're gonna like this:

Republican Disaster

The apparent Democratic takeover of both houses of Congress left Republicans stunned and divided, unable to comprehend that the nation's political realignment creating a GOP majority had crested and reversed. The confidence that relied entirely on a generously funded Election Day organization now looks like arrogance. The party's cocksure political mechanics simply could not believe the outcome as the results poured in.

Democrats capitalized on a mood that was not so much pro-Democrat as anti-Republican. Republican leaders are still in denial in the wake of their crushing defeat. They blame individual losing candidates for failing to prepare themselves for the election, but the real fault lies with the GOP's Washington establishment, which played its hand at Republican governance so disastrously that by Election Day Republicans could hardly get a cab ride anywhere in middle America.

In contrast, the private reaction by Republicans was anger at President Bush and his political team. That includes a rising GOP undercurrent against the current Iraq policy....

From a legislative perspective, loss of the Senate is less devastating than the loss of the House, because the Senate was not able to produce or pass most Republican legislation anyway. Filibuster rules in the Senate allow just 41 members to block almost anything, whereas in the House a majority is nearly always sufficient.

On the flip side, the loss of the Senate is devastating for any plans Bush had to install conservative judges. It could strongly interfere with any attempt to replace a Supreme Court justice, should one retire in the coming months....

This unusually high number of incumbent losses is very significant, because it is a true sign of a throw-the-bums-out election. Voters were not choosing against the incumbent party in open seats as often as they were choosing against the incumbents who were supporting President Bush and his policies....

With both houses of Congress ceded to the Democrats, President George W. Bush is now officially a lame duck. His tax and entitlement reform proposals and the extension of his tax cuts can be considered dead on arrival. The level of congressional scrutiny of his every move will be heightened suddenly. His ability to appoint judges and cabinet members and successfully confirm them is cast into doubt.

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So Bush lied and forced Republican candidates to defend Rummy last week when he had no intention of keeping him

Nice. Bush admitted today that he lied to the media, and the American people, last week when he said he planned on keeping Rumsfeld through the end of his administration. In fact, Bush said today, he knew last week that he was going to get rid of Rumsfeld, but just didn't want to say it before the election. So, instead, Bush told the country that Rummy was doing a "fantastic" job, and staying another 2 years. By doing so, bush forced Republican candidates across the country to defend Rumsfeld and fall on their swords in order to defend Bush and defend the war in Iraq. That hurt GOP candidates across the country, for absolutely no reason. Nice. Read More......

HOTLINE: Republicans will soon pressure George Allen to concede

Wow, it's over. From Hotline, a very influential and connected inside-the-beltway publication:

November 08, 2006
Republicans Will Pressure Allen... Soon

Top Republicans in Washington will give Sen. George Allen a few days to take stock of his legal and political options before beginning to pressure him to concede to James Webb. Senior Republican officials and White House aides believe that Webb won the race. Several outside advisers to Allen want him to make the decision quickly; others in his campaign want to make sure that there's no chance a cache of new votes will turn up. One question: when will (will?) the AP call the race?

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CNN's Lou Dobbs: George Allen should concede defeat

Lou Dobb's just said the folllowing on CNN:

CNN's LOU DOBBS: [Experts are telling us that] it's going to be a very difficult recount, and it could be tantamount to another 'Florida 2000' in Virginia this time. Personally, Wolf, I would urge Senator Allen, and I would say this if the roles were reversed between he and James Webb, I think the gracious and caring thing for this country would be to accede to the will of the people and forego the recount, as difficult as that may be for him. This is the time in our country's history, Wolf, I truly believe it, it's a time for graciousness, it's a time for class, and forebearance of self-interest.

WOLF: The Republicans would argue that it's not just Senator Allen's seat that's at stake, it's the Republican majority in the United States Senate.

DOBBS: I think there's something else at stake. I'm etymating (?) here Wolf, it's the for the good of the country. And it would be nice to see George Allen set a solid foundation for the future, for his future, for the Republican party's future, for the good of the country, and to forego that recount.

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What yesterday's victory meant

I don't think the election was a victory for conservative Democrats or liberal Democrats. It was a victory for Democrats across the board, and a repudiation of Republicans and conservativism.

Conservative Dems, like Bob Casey in PA, won. Conservative Dems like Harold Ford in TN lost. Liberal Dems like Sherrod Brown in OH won. Liberal Dems like Ned Lamont in CT lost. There was no absolute pattern, in my view, as to liberal Dems winning or losing or conservative Dems winning or losing. Democrats ran a variety of candidates, from left to right, and some won and some didn't. And that's the way it should be. I don't think you can win by only running conservative candidates (good luck in SF), or only running liberal candidates (good luck in much of the south). You need to run a bit of a rainbow, and that makes sense - America isn't left or right, at least not exclusively.

Having said that, think about Angie Paccione (D-CO), who got 43% of the vote in Colorado as compared to her Republican opponent, Marilyn Musgrave, who got 46%. Now, pay attention to who these two women are. Paccione is openly in favor of gay marriage. Musgrave is the religious right's top ally in the House, the author of the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment to the US Constitution. The race was in conservative Colorado. Yet, what happened? Paccione, the lady in favor of gay marriage, got seriously close to unseating Musgrave, the religious right bat from hell.

Let me repeat that. A Democrat openly in favor of gay marriage almost won in the heart of religious right America against the #1 religious right poster girl. That not only shows the diversity of Democratic candidates running, but it also shows the acceptance of diversity that exists even in the heart of conservative America. America is not black and white, red or blue. And I don't think our party should be either.

Now, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to push for Democrats to adopt positions that I hold dear. I will. And sometimes I'll agree with conservative Dems, and a lot of times I'll agree with liberal Dems. But my point is that Democrats won yesterday - not liberal Dems, not conservative Dems, but Dems.

The rather liberal Nancy Pelosi will be the next House Speaker. The rather conservative Harry Reid will be the next Senate Majority Leader. We are now a party that truly represents the diversity of America. And just as Harry Reid as Minority Leader is a mainstream Democrat, Nancy Pelosi as Speaker will be a mainstream Democrat. And let anyone, liberal or conservative, claim otherwise.

And one final point. I've gotten a few emails from some readers who think that, because some conservative Dems were elected along with liberal Dems, perhaps this victory wasn't worth winning. Well, let me tell you what this victory now means:

1. It's much harder, if not impossible, for Republicans to further repeal habeas corpus and do other nasty things like even bring up for a vote federal constitutional amendments taking away the rights of entire classes of citizens. The Democrats now control what comes to the floor of the House and Senate - and what doesn't. That's the power to control the agenda. That's power we haven't had for 12 years.

2. The Democrats now have a national platform to criticize Republican excess and incompetence, and to promote their ideas and agenda and key players. We didn't have that in the minority. Now we do.

3. Subpoenas, baby. Subpoenas.

4. Passage of the 9/11 Commission recommendations, increase in the minimum wage, no privatization of social security, and so much more.

5. The Democratic majority has to approve of Bush's far-right, Constitution-hating, theocracy-loving Supreme Court nominations.

There's more. Much more. So don't even dare tell me that this victory wasn't worth winning. We just got our country back, and proved to an entire generation, and the world, that the American dream is still alive.

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Bay Buchanan warns that if George Allen seeks recount in VA, country will resent GOP, think they stole the Senate

Conservative pundit, and Pat Buchanan's sister, Bay Buchanan just said the following on CNN:

If this thing were to just flip, and ended up George Allen winning it, you're gonna have resentment going on across this country, it's gonna be deeply felt as if we stole the Senate, not only that particular seat but the Senate itself.

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This just in via CNN: Conrad Burns won't concede either

Here we go. Every major news network has called Montana for John Tester. But, Conrad Burns doesn't see it that way. CNN just reported that he's not giving up. He's joining George Allen in the sore loser camp.

Those Republicans just can't believe they lost. They just can't accept it. Conrad Burns is putting his personal interest first. But, that's what Conrad Burns does.

Hey, if you were Conrad Burns, you'd want to stay in the Senate. Remember, he's got the feds breathing down his neck over the Abramoff scandal.

So, the entire GOP apparatus is going to be defending Macaca and Jack Abramoff's best friend for the next couple weeks. So be it. They've lost control of the Senate anyway. Read More......

Local paper: Courtney "appears' to have won over Simmons in CT-02 by 170 votes

There will be a recount in Connecticut's Second CD, however, the local paper, the Norwich Bulletin, reported that the Democrat, Joe Courtney, had the votes to defeat incumbent Rob Simmons. It's close, but a win is a win:

The Associated Press reported early today that all but four precincts had reported their results. The Norwich Bulletin obtained the numbers from those final four precincts -- all in Waterford -- this morning. Waterford reports Simmons garnered 3,940 votes to Courtney’s 3,887. It appears Courtney has beaten Simmons by a mere 170 votes overall in the 2nd Congressional District -- 121,321 for Courtney to 121,151 for Simmons.

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GOP could grind Senate to a halt by challenging legitimate election results

From MSNBC:

Will Congress grind to a halt for days, or even weeks, as the two parties slug it out over who should be seated? It has happened before and, given the high stakes in the Senate especially, it's hardly unthinkable now.

The Constitution states that “Each house shall be the judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own members,” so in the end the decision will be up to the Senate and the newly-sworn in House in January whether to seat a would-be member who shows up with the certificate of election from his state’s governor.

So that means, if the Republicans try to steal the election in the Senate, the decision finally goes to the new majority - that would be a Democratic majority of 50-49 - so we win anyway. The only thing "gained" by any Republican effort to play the sore loser will be that the Republicans will drag our nation through a new electoral disaster for months, all in order to highlight that they are the party of Macaca. Read More......

Patrick Murphy defeats Fitzpatrick in PA-08 -- the 28th pick up

The DCCC makes the call. This is a big pick up. Read More......

Mr. Reid, your drapes are ready

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Bush is speaking live

UPDATE: ThinkProgress has the video of Bush admitting that he intentionally lied to the media last week.

Blog him.

UPDATE: Bush just said that the Republicans lost because the American people just didn't understand the importance of the issues.

UPDATE: Bush says Iraq is not having a civil war. Oh, keep it up.

UPDATE: Bush is still defending Iraq. He says we're going to stay. Oh boy, he's in serious trouble. The next two years are going to be all about the disaster in Iraq. If you thought the Republicans paid a price last night for Bush and Iraq, just wait for the next elections, congressional and presidential. It's going to be a disaster for the Republicans.

UPDATE: Bush just admitted that he lied to the media last week when he said that Rumsfeld was staying for 2 years. And get this, Bush claims he didn't mention Rumsfeld leaving last week because he didn't want to influence the election. Huh? Why wouldn't Bush try to influence the election? That's what he just spent the last several weeks doing? So he's lying again, about lying. Read More......

BREAKING: GOP sources say Rumsfeld is resigning

Buh bye. MSNBC just confirmed it from a senior White House official. And just a week ago Bush said he was keeping Rumsfeld for the next 2 years.

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TESTER WINS MONTANA, DEMS WIN SENATE

UPDATE: AP declares Dem Jon Tester victor in Montana. The Wall Street Journal declares Tester the victor as well.

It's over. Democrat Jon Tester in Montana has declared victory in his Senate race. It's over. We just won back the Senate.

As the day goes on, Webb's lead over Allen increases in Virginia. And now, as the latest story from Montana reveals, it's over there too.

We just won the Senate.

Democratic challenger Jon Tester declared victory Wednesday morning over Republican incumbent U.S. Conrad Burns.

Following the resolution of a software issue in Butte, which proved there was not a large number of unaccounted for votes as was feared, Tester's camp declared victory.

The final numbers in Butte had Tester's margin increase by 700 votes, increasing his statewide lead more than 3,000 votes. Meagher County has yet to report, but it is expected less than 900 votes will come from that precinct.

Will the Sore Loser Republicans reject the clear will of the American people and tie up our election for months? Gosh I hope not, for their sake. It would be terrible to spend the next few months examining all the Republican dirty tricks and election scams in Virginia and nationwide, starting with their illegal robo-calls. Nobody likes a sore loser. Read More......

Pelosi is speaking live, put it on

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Update on Montana and Virginia

From the DSCC:

Both Jon Tester and Jim Webb have won their races in Montana and Virginia but want to make sure that every vote is counted. We expect to have official results soon but can happily declare today that Democrats have taken the majority in the U.S. Senate.

Montana Vote Situation: Jon Tester leads Conrad Burns by approximately 1,700 votes (as of 11am EDT) and counting. In Silver Bow County (Butte), a Democratic stronghold, votes are still being counted but Tester is winning there with 66% of the vote. We expect to gain the majority of these uncounted votes and to add to Tester’s margin.

Montana Process: When the counting phase is completed, a canvass will verify the vote tallies. That process could take as long as 48 hours, and must begin within three days and end within seven. Unless the canvass shows the margin to be within ¼ of 1%, there is no recount. As the loser, Burns would have to request the recount. When the votes are all counted, we expect to be outside that recount margin.

Virginia Vote Situation: Jim Webb is up by approximately 8,000 votes and once the provisional ballots are counted, we expect Webb’s margin to increase. (Please note that VA absentees were included in the tallies from last night.)

Virginia Process: A canvass is underway to verify the results and we expect that process to finish within a day or so. To be in recount, the margin needs to be less than 1% and Allen (as the loser) would have to request it. Because of Virginia voting laws, the margin would have to be much tighter than it currently is to see any change in the outcome. Given the current margins, that is highly, highly unlikely.

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Virginia recount couldn't even BEGIN until November 27

Are the Republicans going to be sore losers? Here are the details of the disaster George Allen and the Republicans are going to cause if they refuse to accept the legitimate results of the election.

A final count, including all absentee ballots, was expected later Wednesday.

There are no automatic recounts in Virginia, but state law allows a candidate who finishes a half-percentage point or less behind to request a recount paid for by state and local governments.

With a margin greater than that but less than 1 percentage point, the trailing candidate can still seek a recount but has to pay the costs if the results are unchanged. Either way, a recount could not begin until after the State Board of Elections certifies the results Nov. 27; the losing candidate has 10 days after that to request a recount.

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Ted Haggard's hometown paper

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Just let the Republicans contest the VA election

Because we won and we are never going to cede that election. If the Republicans want lawsuits for the next 6 months, so be it. This election is about who controls the next nominations to the Supreme Court, not to mention taking back our country and our Constitution - and we just won. If George Allen and the Republicans try to overturn the clear will of the people, we aren't budging an inch. And then the Republicans can explain to the American people why they shut down the Senate for the next half a year, waiting for the endless lawsuits to finally finish.

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NYT on the power of the blogs this election

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LIVE THREAD: Conservative Implosion on C-SPAN

Watch the Conservative implosion on C-SPAN right now. Richard Viguerie just said that the Conservative movement needed to move away from the Republican party. Watch it and talk about it here. Read More......

Will George Allen be a sore loserman?

I do hope the Republicans accept the will of the American people gracefully and don't drag this election out over the next 3 weeks, which is exactly what will happen if George Allen doesn't accept his defeat in Virginia last night.

Doesn't bode well for a presidential candidate to be a sore loserman. Also doesn't bode well for the Republican party to hang their hopes, and majority, on a racist. I'm relishing spending the next 3 weeks having the media play the Macaca tape over and over and over again. Read More......

Headlines we like to see

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Dems. make major gains in state legislatures

There were victories down-ballot as well. The Democrats now control the majority of state legislatures around the country:

The wave of voter discontent that put Democrats in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives also hit state legislatures, where the party won control of more chambers than Republicans.

Democrats picked up control of at least nine chambers in Tuesday's election, winning the House and Senate in Iowa and New Hampshire, the House in Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, and Indiana, and the Wisconsin Senate, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

"The Democrats have won pretty much across the board," said Tim Storey, an elections analyst at the nonpartisan group.

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"Everything is different now for President Bush"

The analysis begins -- and it's bad for Bush:

Everything is different now for President Bush. The era of one-party Republican rule in Washington ended with a crash in yesterday’s midterm elections, putting a proudly unyielding president on notice that the voters want change, especially on the war in Iraq.

Mr. Bush now confronts the first Democratic majority in the House in 12 years and a significantly bigger Democratic caucus in the Senate that were largely elected on the promise to act as a strong check on his administration. Almost any major initiative in his final two years in office will now, like it or not, have to be bipartisan to some degree.

For six years, Mr. Bush has often governed, and almost always campaigned, with his attention focused on his conservative base. But yesterday’s voting showed the limits of those politics, as practiced — and many thought perfected — by Mr. Bush and his chief political adviser, Karl Rove.

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McNerney defeats Pombo -- the 27th pick up for

When we stopped counting last night, the Democrats had picked up 26 seats. Make that 27 now.

A major upset in California:

Richard Pombo, the seven-term Republican congressman from Tracy who was hobbled by the Iraq war and criticism over ethics and environmental issues, lost his bid for an eighth term Tuesday night.

With nearly all of the vote counted, Democrat Jerry McNerney held a 53 percent to 47 percent lead in California's 11th Congressional District, which includes much of San Joaquin County and portions of Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara counties.

There are still several races that are too close to call. Hotline On Call reports the "recount races" as:

CT 02, FL 13, GA 08, IA 02, NM 01, NC 08, PA 06, PA 08, WY AL

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The Morning After We Changed America Open Thread

Winning is so much more fun. We really, really need to do it more.

Democrats control the House. Democrats will control the Senate.

George Bush is the big loser. That means Bush, Rove, Mehlman and the extreme GOP agenda all lost. They can't push us around anymore. The next two years won't be fun for them. I am still struck by how the media fell for the Rove spin all last week. He's full of crap and it finally caught up with him. And, Mehlman, well, Kenny is just delusional. Even late last night, he kept spinning a Steele victory in Maryland -- well after all the networks had declared Cardin the winner.

Russert just declared what happened yesterday was "seismic." Then saw Jon Tester on the TODAY Show with a big smile on his face -- looking and talking like a winner.

Still sorting through it all. But how sweet was it to watch Santorum concede? We're going to see George Felix Allen acknowledge his defeat. Might take awhile, but we will see that speech.

And, watching Bush squirm at his press conference today at 1 PM will be fun.

Let's just say it out loud: Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Extremist GOP ballot issues lose in conservative states

Must be a humbling day for the theocrats who are in charge of the GOP. Losing the House is bad enough but to lose in places like South Dakota and Arizona, two traditionally conservative states, says a lot. Smear, fear and dark ages politics are so 2004.

In a triple setback for conservatives, South Dakotans rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona became the first state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research.

Ouch.

"What we're seeing is that fear-mongering around same-sex marriage is fizzling out," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. He noted that the bans that succeeded won by much narrower margins, on average, than in the past.

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Democrats currently at 228 in House, looking to add more

CNN has the Democrats ahead in at least 5 of the undecided House seats so it looks like our majority in the House will be even stronger as the votes are all counted. Read More......

Carol Shea-Porter in New Hampshire wins in major upset

Shea-Porter (Democrat, NH-01) pulled off a stunning upset over GOP incumbent Jeb Bradley. Any other good surprise victories out there to report? Chris Cillizza of "The Fix" is still blogging for the Washington Post at 3:10AM with updates. Read More......

Tester gains ground (again) on Burns in Montana

With 85% of the votes counted, Tester hits 50% and expands his lead over Burns. It all comes down to this race tonight. Read More......

Oh, and by the way...

Karl Rove's not looking so bright now. Read More......

If we win Montana, we win the Senate

I've just heard that it may take a few more hours before the final decision comes from Montana on the Senate race. But we're still ahead, and if we win Montana, we just won back the Senate. Stay tuned. Read More......

Democrat Lampson takes DeLay's old seat

Texas 22 goes Democrat in a crushing 10 point victory. Who would have guessed that a Houston suburb would wallop the GOP so badly? Read More......

It he looks like a duck and quacks like a duck

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Dems winner majority of governors' offices

Mandate, baby.

A string of victories in Massachusetts, Ohio, New York, Arkansas, Colorado and Maryland meant Democrats will control the governorship in at least 28 states. They also held onto vulnerable seats that had been targeted by Republicans in Iowa, Michigan, Oregon and Wisconsin.

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Wash Post: "A Voter Rebuke For Bush, the War and the Right"

Page one, Washington Post:

The political pendulum in American politics swung away from the right yesterday, putting an end to the 12-year Republican Revolution on Capitol Hill and delivering a sharp rebuke of President Bush and the Iraq war.

The GOP reign in the House that began with Newt Gingrich in a burst of vision and confrontation in 1994 came crashing down amid voter disaffection with congressional corruption....

Overall, 59 percent of voters surveyed in a news media consortium series of exit polls yesterday expressed dissatisfaction or anger with the Bush administration; 37 percent said they cast their vote to express opposition to Bush, compared with 23 percent who were voting to support him. Fifty-six percent of voters said they support withdrawing some or all U.S. troops from Iraq, which will increase the pressure on Washington to switch gears at a minimum and probably embolden Democrats pushing for a pullout.

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Additional House pick ups - up to 26 now

2:20 AM UPDATE

We've got the House....now we're adding on to the majority. The first fifteen are in a post below. We'll keep updating this through the night. Here are the additional Dem. pick ups so far:

Loebsack over Leach (IA-02)

Walz over Gutknecht (MN-01)

Hall over Kelly (NY-19)

Kagen over Gard (WI-08)

Mitchell over Hayworth (AZ-05)

Perlmutter over O'Donnell (CO-07)

Lampson over Sekula-Gibbs (TX-22)

Braley over Whalen (IA-01)

Boyda over Ryun (KS-02) A MAJOR UPSET

Shea-Porter over Bradley (NH-01)

Altmire over Hart (PA-04)

The DCCC has an up-to-the-minute site tracking the key races. Latest wins are on the top and in bold. Read More......

Claire McCaskill declares victory

UPDATE: Talent just conceded. We got Missouri.

A HUGE win in the Show-Me State. Claire McCaskill just declared victory. Watching her speech now on MSNBC.

UPDATE: NBC and CBS have declared McCaskill the winner. Read More......

Just left the CNN event, with Joe and Rob at Joe's now

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I finally got my panoramic photo up from the CNN blog event. With Joe and Rob at Joe's place right now, seeing if we can learn anything more about Missouri and Montana. Read More......

Webb: The votes are in and we won

This race has been soooo close all night. But, it was great to hear Webb say, "the votes are in and we won."

Late tonight, Webb leapt in to the lead -- a small lead, but it will hold.

George Allen didn't concede yet. But he will. Read More......

Call her Speaker Pelosi

Watching the new Speaker giving her first speech in the new role. We're watching history. It won't be official til January, but she is the Speaker.

Winning is so much more fun. Read More......