Who won? We won.
When you see the pundits and politicos pulling spin out their asses, just remember: We won. And I don't just mean Democrats, although the picture is impressive:
It looks like Democrats will take the House with a bigger majority than the Republicans did in their "Revolution" in 1994. Meanwhile, the Republicans didn't win a single new House seat, Senate seat or Governorship. Not one.
But our triumph goes far beyond that lovely letter D.
This was a victory of the grassroots. It was the candidates Rahm Emmanuel barely noticed until a couple weeks ago that won big this election, while many of his hand-picked favorites lost. Howard Dean even acknowledges this.
This was a victory of the blogosphere. Fundraising by people like FDL, Atrios, and Americablog put money where the DCCC wouldn't, and won.
This was a victory of progressive and populist Democrats. Not "conservative Democrats" like the pundits are saying.
This was a victory for the anti-war movement.
This was a victory created by us, by regular people and bloggers and fed up Americans. Not the D.C. power structure, not the DCCC, not the corporate interests some say make both parties the same.
Whatever they say, this was huge, this was real, and this was us.
Who won? We won.
It looks like Democrats will take the House with a bigger majority than the Republicans did in their "Revolution" in 1994. Meanwhile, the Republicans didn't win a single new House seat, Senate seat or Governorship. Not one.
But our triumph goes far beyond that lovely letter D.
This was a victory of the grassroots. It was the candidates Rahm Emmanuel barely noticed until a couple weeks ago that won big this election, while many of his hand-picked favorites lost. Howard Dean even acknowledges this.
This was a victory of the blogosphere. Fundraising by people like FDL, Atrios, and Americablog put money where the DCCC wouldn't, and won.
This was a victory of progressive and populist Democrats. Not "conservative Democrats" like the pundits are saying.
This was a victory for the anti-war movement.
This was a victory created by us, by regular people and bloggers and fed up Americans. Not the D.C. power structure, not the DCCC, not the corporate interests some say make both parties the same.
Whatever they say, this was huge, this was real, and this was us.
Who won? We won.