"The Democrats are obviously running strong," the Guardian's Washington bureau chief, Julian Borger, tells me. "From the buzz, it seems pretty likely they'll take the House, and either come close or take the Senate. According to the exit polls, they're ahead everywhere in the Senate that they need to be, except Tennessee."
And on the end of the race in Pennsylvania, where voters seem to have decisively booted Republican senator Rick "man on dog" Santorum out of office:
"Santorum was just too right-wing for the state. [The apparently victorious Democrat] Bob Casey is a socially conservative Democrat: he's anti-abortion, and from a well-known political family there. It was a strong and clever take from the Republicans, spotting that they were vulnerable because Santorum was far too right-wing for a swing state."
But the Senate is still on a - you know.
UPDATE: The Associated Press calls Connecticut for Lieberman.
UPDATE II: A second major gain for the Democrats in the House: John Yarmuth defeats incumbent Anne Northup in Kentucky's third district.
