[Thickman]

As of 6:49 a.m. MST it does not look good for Burns who needs over 1500 votes to get even. There are only about 2300 votes left (unreported) and I calculate that Burns can only make up at most 550 votes based on past election returns for George Bush (percentage of votes he got from those counties).

Sorry folks, the string is alive - no party has ever taken the house without also taking the senate. It's going to be a rough two years for W and we are going to end up with a squishy Supreme Court Justice when whats-his-face retires.

[Thickman]

P.S. The GOP will now need to regroup and hope that someone like Ronald Reagan comes along to lead the country out of the woods as in 1980. But who could that possibly be? We have no apparent leader with the philosphies and statesmanship needed to replicate Ronnie's feat.

[justa-hairyape]

Seems awful strange that Yellowstone County which went for Bush 40,863 to 24,101 in 2004 (~margin 16,760), now only gives their Republican Senator a 1,400 margin of victory 2 years later. The pub victory margin is off by a factor of 10 in just 2 years as it stands (94 % reporting).

[SmoothTalker]

I agree. It looks bad. I think we just lost the senate. I thought the House could fall. Really didn't expect the Senate too as well.