As Predicted Here, Stevens Loses Alaska Re-Election Bid

OK, it wasn't a daring prediction, but the election of Mark Begich, the Democratic Mayor of Anchorage, is another sweet Senate pickup in the party's march towards a filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats.

All I can is that the Democrats better get an agenda moving Jan 20th or the work this election cycle will have been in vain.

And to my faithful conservative readers: these close elections and recounts are not breaking against you because of voter fraud, or alien abduction of election officials, or a vast left-wing conspiracy.

They are because of George W. Bush, unregulated markets' greed and failings, and in Stevens' case, hacky, tacky corruption and incumbent arrogance run totally amok.