Politics is local

Dial up connections kill the ability to do a lot of research. I've had a number of projects in my this weekend, but I won't be back to any consistent high speed connection until Wens, and even then its only for a day.

Maybe I should be thankful, then that the Washington Post doesn't have that problem, and it has already shown that despite the hardships the national party suffered, the state level officials actually did quite well:

Before the election, with nearly 5,800 seats up for grabs, Republicans controlled 21 states and Democrats, 17, while 11 were split between the parties. Nebraska's legislature is nonpartisan.

Democrats, with Wednesday's unofficial results, appear likely to control 19 states and Republicans 20, with 10 states divided.

Democrats took both Colorado chambers from Republicans. Montana went from Republican to divided when Democrats took the Senate. North Carolina went from divided to Democratic, despite backing Bush and electing Republican Richard Burr to the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. John Edwards.