It was a bloodbath for mucked-up candidates last night. Justin Rood gives our tribute to the fallen.

Ivo Daalder on what the election means for US foreign policy.

George Allen’s trailing by about 7,000 votes — quite a margin to make up in a recount. And it seems that’s something the Allen camp has realized.

They say they’re still not sure whether they’ll call for a recount.

So here’s one question: where do they put the key they just used to lock Dick Cheney back up in that undisclosed location?

Will George Allen cave?

Conservative blog Redstate.com calls on Allen not to seek a recount in hard-fought Virginia Senate race.

Clinched: AP, NBC call the Virginia senate race for Jim Webb.

100% of precincts in King County reporting, Darcy Burner is up by about a thousand votes over Rep. Reichert (R) out in WA-8. Overall, it’s still Reichert up 51% to 49%.

(ed.note: Thanks to TPM Reader GT for the tip.)

Late Update: The original version of this post incorrectly reported the King County numbers as the numbers for the whole 8th district. Not so.

Okay, it’s over. Pretty clear Sen. Allen’s (R) going to give up the electoral ghost tomorrow. So it’s Senator-elect Webb (D). And it’s Majority Leader-to-be Reid (D).

Anybody have any entries for the least gracious, most churlish concession speech Tuesday night?

I’m nominating outgoing Rep. Melissa Hart (R-PA). Asked why she got taken down by Jason Altmire, Hart said it was Altmire’s horrible negative campaigning …

“I was not going to play the games. Unfortunately I think that took a toll. In retrospect, I had everyone in Washington, D.C., significant number of my colleagues, call me and say you need to cut his legs off, was the term they used,” Hart said. “And you know what, you don’t need to cut his legs off. He clearly did that his entire campaign, he’s new at this, I that hope he doesn’t do it the next time.”

That’s nice.

I actually didn’t get the impression this was even a particularly nasty campaign.

Hart, remember, was one of the rubberstamps Hastert and DeLay stacked the Ethics Committee with after they purged the committee early last year.

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