by Clifford F. Thies, Senior Editor

Republicans scored astounding victories in every category: (1) House seats, picking up a net of 60 or more seats, not only control of the House, but by a margin larger than have enjoyed since the 1920s; (2) Senate seats, picking up six to eight seats (AR, IL, IN, ND, PA and WI, with CO and WA still deadlocked); (3) Governors, picking up maybe a net of nine; (4) state legislative chambers, picking up twenty (!!!). State chambers that flipped from Democrat to Republican as of press time include: AL (both), IA (lower), IN (lower), ME (both), MI (lower), MN (both), NC (both), NH (both), MT (lower), NV (lower), OH (lower), PA (lower), WA (lower), WI (both)

You might ask, with such an enormous victory, why didn't the Republicans win control of the Senate. For about the last four weeks, we have been talking about the 4 Aces: IL, NV, WA and WV; the four key states the Republicans needed to win to win control of the Senate. It turns out we only pulled one of the four Aces from the deck, IL; with WA standing at 50-50 with 54 percent of the vote counted at press time. And, CO, which we should have won, is too close to call. The Democrats circled the wagons tight, cut funds to numerous incumbent Congressmen, and focused their resources on the key Senate races. As a result, Republicans made gains on the House side near the top end of projections and on the Senate side near the bottom end of projections.