At this hour of just after 8 pm Pacific, the first significant results are coming in here in the west. And as expected, the first congressional seat to flip Democratic is Arizona's 8th district. As predicted, Democrat Gabby Gifford walloped pro-minuteman GOP rival Randy Graf.

And as I write, CNN has just projected a Democratic majority for the House.

A couple of more victories in the west, like the defeat of Arizona incumbent J.D. Hayworth, and New Mexico congresswoman Heather Wilson would broaden the new majority.

We'll update those races as more info comes in.

Comments (9)

1. supeona power... don't leave the basement without it

   Posted by Will C. at 11/07/2006 @ 11:13pm

2. a: the democrats still haven't even won the house,

   yes, they have Zero. your pessimism is so unrelieved, that you can't even see when the glass is half full. your credibility suffers because of this.

   Posted by johannesrolf at 11/07/2006 @ 11:36pm

3. Jesus Christ, Zero. Could you at least wait until the Democrats have been in office for a week?

   Posted by Hman23 at 11/07/2006 @ 11:38pm

4. democrats failed to campaign effectively as a collective body

   And just how is this done exactly? You expect complete unanimity when we are talking about distinct races in different states, different districts. There is not some monolithic Republican incumbant that Democrats were running against. There are individual candidates, each with specific connections to their state or district.

   Posted by Hman23 at 11/07/2006 @ 11:45pm

5. zero, at least give them the chance to not live up to your governing expectations before you start to ream them for it.

   Posted by Will C. at 11/08/2006 @ 12:23am

6. shit man, the chairs they havn't gotten yet still don't have their ass prints on them

   Posted by Will C. at 11/08/2006 @ 12:25am

7. Zero, I was watching Chris Matthews on MSNBC and he was saying that the committee chairmen pelosi is considering are known for launching tough investigations and that many supeona's would be forth coming. The people on his panel agreed with that statement.

   Give them a chance bro.

   Posted by Will C. at 11/08/2006 @ 12:38am

8. dingells name poped up too

   Posted by Will C. at 11/08/2006 @ 12:46am

9. the commerce comitee, that's the one dingell was being considered for.

   the one with the power to investigate the spending in iraq

   Posted by Will C. at 11/08/2006 @ 12:51am