Tonight, Americans across the country (well, two mid-Atlantic states) voted overwhelmingly against the President Bush and the GOP, sending shockwaves across the political landscape. By electing Mark Warner and James McGreevy, the voters have clearly repudiating the conservative overreach we've seen this year: the new faith based initiatives, the President's repudiation of Kyoto, and the GOP's massive tax cuts for the wealthy.
While the GOP is clearly in spin mode and pretending that tonight's Democratic triumphs were only about "local issues" without any bearing on next year, the voters sent a clear message that they were poised to vote out congressional converatives the next chance they got. Both Congress in the midterm elections next year and the White House in 2004 are ripe for the picking.
