It shouldn't have been nearly this close. This may not be a loss, but it's not a victory either.
You have the gift/curse of foresight, my friend. A quite close race in an Ohio district that went 70+% for Bush in the last election. Rush will blither otherwise tomorrow, of course, but it clearly bodes ill for the hubris-filled decade-long legislative Republican majority which has yet to do anything notable for their American constituency other than blow the deficit skyward, swing open the southern border, recreate debtors prisons at the behest of the charge card companies, spurn medical science in numerous ways (stem cells research, marijuana for pain relief), and traipse hundreds of thousands of troops into an ill-considered war in Iraq, which today surpassed 1800 dead.
With a record like that, its clear that if the Democrats were just mildly less offensive to fundamental middle class values they would win most elections in a walk. Bush should yet again be thankful for his incompetent enemies.
But I think his luck will not hold through next year's mid-term elections. In Texan terms, those chickens will come home to roost, at some point. May be flying low and slow, but they'll arrive.
By the way, McNamara was promoted to leadership of the World Bank by Lyndon Johnson, to remove him as an active agent of the Vietnam fiasco. And to where did Bush II promote Wolfrowitz?
Oh no, there's no parallel in that....