The Dawn of a New Era?

I just couldn't wait any longer, I just had to write to celebratory words regarding the wonderful U.S Midterm election results. While Jim Webb continues to slug it out with George Allen in Virginia with the Senate hanging in the balance, there is much to celebrate in the meantime.

• Rumsfeld is gone. The Defense Secretary, after six stormy years in the Pentagon stepped down with, you have to imagine, a little push to try and alleviate some pressure after the people spoke through ballot on their feelings towards Iraq.
• The House Of Representatives is the Democrats after 12 years of Republican control. This is from AOL:

By 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, Democrats had won 228 seats, enough for control, and were leading for another 4, which would give them 232. Republicans, who hold 229 seats in the current House, won 193 and were leading in another 10, which would give them 203.
Democrats had captured 27 Republican-controlled seats, and no Democratic incumbent had lost thus far. Races were too close to call in more than a dozen seats, making it impossible to determine exactly how large the Democratic margin would be.

• In smaller U.S news, South Dakota voted not to ban abortion and Arizona voted not to ban Gay Marriage. Small victories maybe and anything like this on any bill isn't a good thing, but they didn't pass and currently, thats what counts.

So a good day. Now just to wait for Webb to confirm victory after a recount and we can count this as one of the finest days of the year.