Much better than the sky is falling. We took it on the chin, but dammit if I'm not going to swing harder now!
And while I really wish we had Santorum and Allen back in the Senate, Casey and Webb are likely to turn out to be a significant improvement over Wofford and Robb.
And a whole lot of conservative inititives got passed (anti-affirmative action in Mich., a pile of gay marriage ones, English language in AZ)
And as Rush noted today, a lot of voters thought not unfoundedly that the Republicans were the party of "big government"