As a result of today’s national election, the US Senate should be much more Democratic with the expectation that the Democrats will gain seats in Virginia, New Hampshire, North Carolina, , Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska , with an outside chance to win in Kentucky, Georgia and even possibly Maine if Barack Obama has strong coattails. Therefore, the number of Democratic seats should increase from 51 (with Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders caucusing with the Democrats) to at least 59 and possibly a high of 62 if everything breaks for the Democrats.
Of course, one could wish conservative Republicans in such states as Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama could be defeated, but one must be realistic! 🙂
The real tragedy is the further movement to the right of the Republican party with the likely defeat of a number of moderate Republicans. This is bad news for the GOP future and for the two party system, with the Republicans possibly being marginalized in a country gone in the opposite direction of the trend of the past 28 years, since the "Reagan Revolution" took hold on America. We may be in the center of a new political revolution, the "Obama Revolution"!
Additionally, the Democratic edge in the House of Representatives, now 236-199, may go up by as much as 28-35 seats. What an amazing set of developments when one considers that just a few years ago, it was thought we were in the midst of a "permanent" Republican majority. American politics continues to amaze!