McCaskill has won Missouri.
Tester is going to win Montana.
There will be a recount in Virginia but it’s ultimately going to go to to Webb.
That gives the Dems a Cheney-proof majority in the Senate.
Tetelestai
That sounds about right. This may just take me some time.
It’s been TWELVE YEARS since Dems had Congressional control.
:: Breaks out singing “Happy Days Are Here Again.”::
CNN now showing Webb with a 12k lead…
To all the die hard Dems on the board who have struggled and kept up the good fight these past few years, who have kept getting the shit beat out of you in election after election…
CONGRATULATIONS!! I mean that sincerely. I hope that its everything you wanted and hoped for. For my part, I’m completely happy with this result…this should put the brakes on Bush et al in a BIG way for the rest of his term.
Now I can rest a bit easier knowing that things should be completely dead-locked from here on out, with neither side able to get much accomplished without a serious consensus (Read…neither side about to get anything accomplished period :)).
My only concern at this point is that now the Dems might be able to gain full control of the government a la the Pubs for the last 6 years if they manage to actually put up a viable candidate in '08. But thats a worry for another day.
Again…congratulations guys. Go nuts, have some fun and be fucking smug as hell. You earned it IMHO…FWIW. 
-XT
I finally get to caper and prance and giggle while chanting I told ya so, I told ya so"
Damn that feels good! 
Talent concedes!
One to go.
TPM’s Election Central has the Senate 49 D, 49 R, 2 undecided – those 2 are MT and VA… Tester’s looking good right now, 51 - 47 over Burns, but Webb / Allen is still too close to call.
Shayna said that late ballots would do McCaskill good, coming from St Louis metro, and that prediction’s looking like it was right: with 88% reporting, she’s up 50 - 47 over Talent.
The Democrats may actually take the Senate, but we won’t know for a while. I don’t wanna get too excited by the prospect.
Yo, xtisme
And thanks for the congrats!
(I’m not explicitly a Democrat but close enough for, umm, government work…)
On the flip side of AHunter3’s post, just to live up to some of the disparaging things I say about pundits…
“Dear President Barack Obama… what’s it like to work with VP Bill Clinton?”
If Tester holds on, the Democratic Party will have won 24 of the 33 seats up this year.
That’s right. 24.
Astonishing.
Very classy, XT, thanks.
Now bring on that sweet, sweet gridlock!
If the Democratic Party can hold on to GA-08, GA-12, and LA-02 (and the first two of those are admittedly very tight races) then they’ll be able to say that not a single Democratic incumbent lost, anywhere. Not in the House, not in the Senate, and not a single Governor’s seat. Three sitting Republican senators are gone, three more are fighting for their political lives, at least 11 sitting Republican Congress-critters are being shown the door…and going the other way, at best the Republicans can flip two, maybe three House seats from the Dems.
No, no, it’s called “checks and balances”.
“His country has a hopelessly dysfunctional political system; your country has ‘gridlock’; my country has ‘checks and balances’.”
And I agree–classy post xtisme.
I’m watching Webb’s victory speech on MSNBC right now, and I swear to God, the crowd is chanting, “Imhotep! Imhotep!”
The new BLT.
baby, lettuce and tomato
In the days to come, analysts may figure out that the ancient Egyptian vote really came to the polls this year and put the Democrats on top.
Another thanks to xstime. The Democrats have a real challenge and opportunity in front of them. Here’s hoping they rise to meet it. And although I’m not a huge fan of hers, particularly, here’s to Nancy Pelosi, who will probably be the nation’s first female Speaker of the House. I think that’s a little marker of progress for us as a country.
Well, 80% of the Montana vote is now in and Tester has maintained an invariable 2% lead over Burns the entire night.
I gotta stumble off to work tomorrow, so I’m going to guesshope that this race won’t change in the course of the remaining 20% of the votes coming in. (It’s not like I could do anything about it if it did…)
the other white meat