A clear call for change....

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I'm proud and happy that Americans remembered yesterday what this country stands for and demanded a change. It's how democracy works, and after an attempt at one party rule, it's heartening to see it still functions....

I think Glen Greenwall says it best;

This was a great victory.

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"Democratic candidates won -- in every part of the country and regardless of their ideology -- by committing themselves to one basic platform. They vigorously opposed what have become the defining attributes of the Republican Party and they pledged to put a stop to them: unchecked Presidential power, mindless warmongering, a refusal to accept or acknowledge realities (both in Iraq and generally), and the deep-seated, fundamental corruption fueling the Bush movement and sustaining their power."

"Democrats didn't win by pretending to be anything. Democrats won because they emphatically and unapologetically vowed to oppose what the Republican Party has become and to put an end to its deeply corrupt and destructive one-party rule -- and that is what Americans, more than anything else, wanted."

"But if nothing else, yesterday's results should galvanize everyone who recognizes the danger this country has been placed in by the radical, hate-mongering, deeply corrupt authoritarians who have been controlling (and destroying) it."

And on the local level. McNerney beats Pombo.

This really is unbelievable and speaks directly to a constituency that had reached a breaking point with the status quo in the House. McNerney is an unknown, untested Democrat that was completely obliterated by Pombo in the election just two years ago. Yet, the need for change resonated so deeply, and Pombo appeared so tied to the apparent corruption in the Republican House, that the folks of the 11th district have decided to give this political greenhorn a tumble, tossing out the powerful chair of the House Committee on Resources.

-UF