- Abstinence nut and former witchcraft-dabbler Christine O’Donnell, a Sarah Palin endorsee, was soundly defeated in Delaware (a Senate seat the GOP otherwise might have picked up);
- Likewise, it appears that Palin protegés Joe Miller in Alaska (whose thuggish security handcuffed a reporter asking him question) and Sharron Angle (who was hinting at armed rebellion if she lost) both lost;
- In California, Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer both won their races for Governor and Senate, respectively, despite their opponents spending oodles of cash;
- Crusading Attorney General Richard Blumenthal beat the WWF candidate in Connecticut, who likewise spent a fortune on her candidacy;
- Denver mayor John Hickenlooper beat paleolithic conservative Tom Tancredo to become Colorado’s new Governor;
- Maurice Hinchey was re-elected yet again to Congress in New York’s 19th District;
- New York’s Green Party reached the 50,000-vote threshold necessary to guarantee themselves an automatic ballot line Statewide for the next four years;
- The Democrats did not lose control of the Senate, meaning the GOP won’t have control of both houses of Congress, and no carte blanche to force idiotic bills in front of the President.
Otherwise, it was pretty bad...
