All in all, a great Election Day for somebody in my position: Bush wins, and will have an even bigger majority in Congress to play with. On the homefront, Republicans picked up yet another seat in the Assembly (for a 61-38 majority) and the Senate (19-12). Not veto-proof, but better.

Still, I feel like I got kicked yesterday. After all the work we did, the dozens of volunteers, the hundreds and thousands of man-hours, and what I think is the most extensive, impressive GOTV organization this part of the state has ever seen, we still lost both Wisconsin and Sauk County.

Crap.

Well, okay, the statewide margin of defeat was a lot better than in 2000. If you add up the Gore margin of victory, plus Nader's votes, it was about five times as much as this year's Kerry margin plus Nader votes. We closed the gap.

Whoa. That much spinning made even me dizzy.

I'll let you know when I've got my county numbers. Wait by the computer until I do.

UPDATE - the Assembly will have a 60-39 Republican-Democrat split, not 61-38, as I wrote before. Oops.