It’s the day after an off-year election, and all the news outlets have filed their stories about how it’s a victory for Democrats and it’s a referendum against Bush (especially in the case of the Virginia governor’s race, where Bush had done a campaign stop hours before). Governator Ahnuld got shut out on his pet ballot initiatives, too.

However, I actually think it’s more of a victory for politicians who aren’t Religious Right pod people, because a few Republican moderates were elected, too. If a heavily Democratic city like New York can re-elect a Republican mayor, that says that they think he was doing a fine job. So okay then.

Governator Ahnold is supposedly a moderate, but the voters are telling him he’s not doing such a fine job. Also okay then.

Sometimes, democracy works. That’s the good news for the day.