Congress

A lot of surprising results for congress, and while I couldn't possibly post anything comprehensive right now, here are some races that caught my eye:

North Carolina Senate: Other than the Presidency, my favorite result of the night. Kay Hagan is fantastic

Virginia 5th: In a huge shock, Virgil Goode is almost tied with his challenger, Tom Perriello. No one thought this would be this close, but Perriello actually leads by 1,000 votes, and apparently has won this seat. Goode is terrible, one of the worst of the right wing of the republican party. I've always despised the man. If this continues, it will be a great thing

New York 24th: Another big surprise. Mike Arcuri was expected to easily win his reelection race, but he leads by just 1,000 votes. How this happened I dont know but its a huge surprise.

New Mexico 1, 2 and 3: The democrats have swept the New Mexico Delegation. Before this election New Mexico's 5 member congressional delegation (2 Senator+3 Reps) was republican majority, 3-2. Now its democrats 5-0. Udall won the senate seat, Martin Heinrich picked up CD1, Harry Teague, in an upset, won heavily republican CD2, and Ben Lujan defended Udall's CD3.

Pennsylvania 3rd: Kathy Dahlkemper's win of this district is one that made me really happy, mainly because i predicted she would win both the primary and general months ago and it ended up happening.

Colorado 4th: It's always good when an uber-conservativ bigot loses (conservative in the Christian right sense, there really needs to be a separate word for real conservatives and social conservatives who aren't really "conservatives".) Marilyn Musgrave, in addition to being the most rabidly anti-gay member of congress, has a rather egregious lack of intelligence. Winning this seat is nice

There are loads of others to talk about, and ill have a comprehensive election result analysis in the next few days.