So I'm at the Sheraton in the press pen, which is a great deal like your living room, if you're watching the returns with CNN or New York One on with fifty or sixty of your nearest and dearest and there are an awful lot of folks outside millling.

Thus far, we have really, really good news from Ohio, where Mr. DeWine appears to have tanked with a great big tank, and Pennsylvania, where Mr. Santorum is getting his ass handed to him. Corker/Ford and Allen/Webb are awfully close.

Chafee's probably gone.

CNN is projecting Cardin over Steele, bless their hearts.

Mr. Reynolds appears to be on his way out.

edit: my beloved Governor Ehrlich will be returning to bad behavior in the private sector.

Excuse me? story of the day: fourth-ranked House Republican Deborah Pryce says that the war in Iraq is "no reflection on her"

edit: Senaator Clinton just gave her victory speech. She thanked Mr. Spencer for a "spirited" campaign. There was amusement.

Also Hevesi won.

OK, Spitzer just accepted, and we got the House.

Also Freddie Ferrer just kissed me on the cheek (sorry, Roy, I'm kvelling)

edit: TBogg happy alert: JD Hayworth is no more. He has joined the choir invisibile. Bereft of life he rests in peace. He's pushing up the daisies. If they hadn't nailed him to the perch...

Well, you get the idea.

edit: if in case anyone was wondering, we're all following the female blogger code (What Would Althouse Do?, or, aptly enough, WWAD) and are irreproachably dowdy.

Not that it was a great leap for me.

edit: OK, I'm home, and with 315 House races to go, we're up 21.

Amongst tonight's fallen:

Sue Kelly, my mom's congresswoman, who she's going to be tickled to have gotten rid of
Mr. Doolittle of California, one of the term limit babies of the Contract who's been there ever since
Rep. Johnson of CT, who Mr. Lieberman campaigned for
Mr. Sweeney of New York, the man who shut down the vote count in Florida
Mr. Weldon, who sold his office in return for jobs for his family
Mr. Sherwood, who wasn't really choking his mistress, which is why he paid her half a million not to talk about it
Mr. Steele, who swept for office on a platform of, you know, urban people not voting
Mr. Allen, who can probably parlay dad's football fame into a car dealership, if his buddies at the CCC decide to forgive him for dissing the confederate flag like that (although I expect he'll try for a recount)
Mr. Santorum, who would have to move back to PA if he'd ever lived there to begin with, but I suspect he'll be OK, because he has some really good friends on K Street
Mr. DeWine, who took a little too long to distance himself from Mr. Rove

there are so many fragrant opportunities for schadenfreude here, but these are definitely highlights

From a Republican perspective, this may just be your chance to start snatching the party back from the entitlement-crazed power junkies who own it right now. Two years from now you can run people you're proud of.

edit: How can I forget Ms. Harris and Mr. Blackwell, the votes that elected Mr. Bush in '00 and '04?

edit once more: does anyone else think it's a little freaky that CNN's election results don't list party affiliation?

Neddie apparently feels strongly about the Allen/Webb race, which Lindsay is covering live at her digs

Elizabeth Benjamin of Capitol Confidential, the blog of the Albany Times Union and serious crack for NY state politics junkies, was at the thing tonight. Apparently someone who their provider won't identify leveled a DOS attack against them today and kept their server down for most of election day.

edit: people who did a much better job than I did liveblogging this thing: Barb, Lance, Tom

edit: niiiiiice.

The Ehrlich campaign bussed homeless people into Maryland to hand out sample ballots identifying Ehrlich and Steele as Democrats.

Happily, Gingrich enforcer Ehrlich lost anyway.

Come to think of it, so did Steele.

Karma, neh?

edit yet again: DeVos lost in Michigan, and hooray for that