TIME: It's a Good Morning for the Democrats

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It's a Good Morning for the Democrats
With control of both houses in their sights, Dems are the big winners as the electorate rebukes the Bush Administration and the GOP
By MICHAEL DUFFY AND KAREN TUMULTY
Posted Wednesday, Nov. 08, 2006


BROOKS KRAFT / CORBIS FOR TIMEHouse Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other Democratic leaders celebrate the party's success in the midterm elections at the Hyatt Regency hotel on Capitol Hill November 7, 2006 in Washington, DC.

Nearly four years of one party rule came to an end last night as Americans touched their screens and scanned their ballots on Tuesday for historic change in Washington and state capitals around the country. Although the details of the final count are still hours, and perhaps days away, voters resoundingly ushered the Republican majority to the door of the House of Representatives and turned a majority of governors' mansions over to the Democrats.

As Americans woke up on Wednesday morning, there were signs of a possible Democratic sweep. Democratic challengers had captured from the GOP four of six seats they needed to control the Senate and held tiny but serviceable margins in Virginia and Montana -- the two states where the counting continued. If those margins hold, the Democrats will have had their strongest showing in a midterm election since the post-Watergate election of 1974.

But even before the outcome of Montana and Virginia is known, it was already clear that the vote was the biggest defeat of George W. Bush's presidency, depriving him of a governing majority in Washington and raising new doubts about his effectiveness and agenda for his final two years in office. Bush has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon.

The outcome brought an end to the Republican Revolution that began in 1994 but lost its way as the party that came to Washington to cut government spending and clean up a corrupt institution ran into scandals of its own and found itself spending like drunken Democrats. Meanwhile, the vote increases the onus on Democrats to go beyond merely criticizing the President and show voters they have a constructive agenda of their own....

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1. Madam Speaker!