Democrats take Capitol Hill

I literally can’t remember experiencing a happy election night. I was thirteen in 1998, when the Democrats barely dented the Republicans’ lead in Congress, and I’m sure I didn’t notice President Clinton cruise to victory over Senator Dole in ‘96. The first campaign cycle I followed closely was the presidential race of 2000, and we all know how that turned out.

Anyway, I’m sure it’s been said more eloquently elsewhere (there’s no shortage of bloggers in their early twenties), but I think a lot of people in my generation will look back on aught-six as the good old days. Actually, scratch that — I hope we’ll remember it as the good old days’ beginning.