We still have a puncher's chance of withholding the Senate; maybe inner-city St. Louis will break for Talent.  Maybe Old Man Conrad will make a comeback.  Additionally, the Allen camp is insisting that some numbers have been transposed by the networks and that Allen is actually winning.  Regardless, let's be honest enough with ourselves to admit that this has been a dreadful night, regardless of the result of the unendurably execrable Allen-Webb campaign.

Let's be sure to comport ourselves with dignity and class right now.  No shrieks of foulplay, no whining.  There's no crying in politics, at least not in public.  Let's remember what we want to do more than anything else - better our country.  Sore loser antics won't help, and neither will slagging on our countrymen for not seeing things the way we did.  We didn't make the sale, and that falls on us.

Losing is part of politics.  Part of the Republican Party has forgotten that the past six years.  Although it might be hard to see tonight, we can be a better party and a better country because of this setback.

With that I bid you a heartfelt goodnight, and turn things over to our West Coast bureau. 

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