How we doing?

At this time last night, most of us were settling in for a long night. I came home from the polls (where my precinct had nearly 50% turnout!) and tuned in to CNN. Immediately, the results started falling the democratic way. The Senate race in Ohio and Pennsylvania gave the Dems their first two pickups. Then Menendez held off Kean in New Jersey. Suddenly, the Senate was in reach.

Then the House races. Anne Northup in Kentucky, Ellsworth in Indiana and others. At about 11:00pm, CNN projected that the Democrats would win control of the House.

When I finally went to bed at 1:00am, the House seats were piling up on the blue side of the aisle. The Senate was down to three races, Missouri, Montana, and Virginia. By the time I arose (a few hours later), Claire McCaskill had vanquished Jim Talent in Missouri and the Senate was tied 49-49.

By lunchtime today (right around the time that Rummy was being shown the door), Montana fell to the Democrats. One down, one to go. And now, most wire services are reporting that Jim Webb has defeated George Allen and the Democrats have secured control of the Senate.