[FreedomNeocon]

Loosen the skirt nancy... the night is not over.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I think its mostly the GOP dropping the ball on spending and immigration.

[KC_Conspirator]

The one thing that Barone and others have accurately pointed out. It is conservative Democrats, many pro-life, tax cut, some even would not commit to vote for Pelosi.

Hardly a consolation. Rove is hardly a MB.

[skaterboy]

Right and those pro gun pro life dems will lick up what pelosi feeds em...lets not try to look for silver linings...if we lose we lose

[Hurricane Andrew]

I pointed that out to my wife 2 hours ago. Maybe I need to be on TV :-)

[paudio]

My prediction is Dims will win about 20-25 seats tonight, which will leave them with only 5-10 more than Reps. If these Democrats really need to 'look conservatives', Pelosi will have hard time to control them.

[johna61]

Moderates and conservative DemonRats don't exist and they won't exist in a Rat Congress.

[Jaysun]

We hold both houses. That's the law!

[WOSG]

"The Republicans lack of sticking up for Iraq , Immigration or Controlling Spending has cost us. "

And one obvious one - CORRUPTION.
We lost several seats due to personal, corruption or related issues - Weldon, Taylor (v Schuler), the Ney seat, Sherwood, and a few others. We will lose TX-22 for similar reasons.

Dem voters tolerate corruption, GOP voters do not.

[Accygirl]

Well... when they all die in the next terrorist attack, I'm sure that the evangelicals who jumped ship will regret voting 'Rat. BTW, since the evangelicals don't respect the Republican party, perhaps the Republicans should nominate Giuliani for Pres.

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

Historic trends, tough goings in Iraq, and scandals have made for a bad election cycle. Still, the GOP should keep the Senate and will still control about 48% of the House.

It happens. Nothing Earth-shattering here; the Dems that won are of the blue-dog variety anyways. Time to clean out the dirty laundry and bad rubbish and get to work on '08.

[johna61]

McLame, and Rudy are toast in 2008-GOOD!

[I_Like_Spam]

The positive is that we can hope for deadlock, few new regulations or programs passed by the new Congress and signed into law.

The negativity will be the pointless impeachment hearings and inquiries, increased taxes, and the islamofascist enemies seeing weakness and trying to take advantage of it.

All together a pretty bad outcome, but hopefully the GOP will rediscover its spine and be able to come back.

[Mike Bates]

Republicans had their chance and blew it

[driftless2]

The huge problem I still see with the Republican Party is their failure to get the conservative message out. In my state of Wisconsin, the Rep candidate for gov, Mark Green, spent all his ad money on attacks on the incumbent Dem gov Jim Doyle. Green told us how bad Doyle was, but he never told us why we should vote for him, Mark Green. I voted for Green, but I'm still not sure what he stands for... other than he didn't like Doyle.

I know the big thinkers in the Republican Party believe that voters react best to short, negative ads. However they MUST!!!! articulate conservative themes along with those negative, attack ads. This they don't do. Indifferent or independent voters listen to constant he-said/she-said type arguments and mostly ignore them. My advice to the people who design the ads for Republican candidates is to try to make them appeal to the voters intelligence.