The House has swung to the Democrat party. The Senate is in the balance. There are three Senate races that are too close to call. There will be a recount in the VA race. MO looks like a Democrat pickup. Not enough returns are in as of 11:05 Pacific time to call, although the Democrat challenger is in the lead.

Click here to see the results for the WA races.

My old associate going back to the late 80s (when I was Apple's Networking and Communications Evangelist), Toby Nixon, appears to be going down to defeat in his race to return to the state senate. Toby is a terrific person, with a wonderful family. He is a legendary figure in the evolution of PC communications--he worked at Hayes Communications back when "Hayes modem" was the standard. I believe that he still works at Microsoft, and does important work there. I'm sure that he'll continue in public service in some capacity. He was a very good senator, and his defeat is a loss for the people of the state of Washington.

Eureka! Stem cell breakthrough to aid heart attack victims! Oh, it is based on the original adult stem cell breakthrough, bone marrow injections into the heart.

Nevermind, Michael Fox, nothing to see here...

I'm taking a different approach to "watching" the election results this year--at least at this point. I have two machines up. My laptop running Windows Vista RC2 is streaming Hugh Hewitt's program over on KKOL AM. By the way, Firefox 2 plus the common add-ins runs fine on Vista.

My main machine has Firefox up with 8 tabs. I am in love with Google Reader; I have all of the best bloggers in a category called "opinion" open in a tab that I refresh frequently. I have tabs dedicated to The Truth Laid Bear's wonderful election tracker, Fox News election page, and to CNN's Blog Party--at least for now.

Many pundits predicted a loss of both houses to the Democrat party. A smaller number predicted that the Republicans would retain both houses. I agree with Captain Ed that the Democrat party is likely to take the House--the only question is by how much--but the Republicans are going to hold the Senate--narrowly.