Here’s mine. What’s yours?
Most beautiful sight: CNN’s “Races where party control of seat has changed” table with every single entry starting with a “D”. (Well, except for the “O” for Lieberman.) Was this a first?
Most pathetic pundit spin: David Brooks frantically explaining that the Dem victory is really evidence of a national move toward the right.
Most gratifying losses: Santorum. Pombo. Allen(?). Too many more to list.
Biggest winner: America’s future.
Most painful loss: Duckworth in IL6, done in by unprecedented lies and viciousness by her opponent, the sick animal called Peter Roskam.
Most painful win: The aforementioned Roskam – talk about the smell of sulfur when he walks into a room – he and Bush could team up and preserve apricots just by breathing.
Most bittersweet Rep loss: Chaffee. The last of the decent Republicans. Why didn’t he just go Indy?
Most bittersweet Dem win: Lieberman.
Biggest loser of all: Karl Turdblossom Rove. He finally demonstrated for all time that stupid bully sociopath does not = genius.
Unsung (or at least undersung) hero of Election 06: Howard Dean. Without him standing up to the pundits and consultants none of this would have happened. He changed history.
Most awesome national GOTV effort: MoveOn. I think they’ve proven themselves the natural heirs to leading a left wing of the party without waiting for election years.
Most embarrassing event in my neck of the woods: the total screwup of the new Cook County vote machine system: precincts couldn’t transmit the votes, had to bring cartridges to election central offices, near riots fanned by the GOP candidate for County Board president. I guess we get to renew our franchise as poster boys for electoral dubiousness even though we don’t come close to FL and OH, among others.
Most embarrassing national correspondent: Katie Couric.
Oddest media error: Listing Lieberman as the Dem while leaving the “independent” slot blank.
Best election count website: CNN.
