Again this year elections were in the middle of studying for my most difficult midterm of the quarter - but this time, I couldn't stop obsessive-compulsively refreshing the CNN home page. Every few minutes, another woman was confirmed as a member of the US house of representatives. There are now 20 more women in congress than there were last year. And, the democrats have a large enough lead to have already announced that they are now the majority, meaning that Nancy Pelosi is our new speaker of the house! How INCREDIBLY exciting. Just 2 weekends ago at a debate tournament I debated the merits of her efforts and the need for her to be speaker of the house - and here, now, it's actually happened!

According to the Associated Press, while she was minority leader Pelosi worked tirelessly to raise money to elect Democrats to the House and was responsible for the highest levels of party unity in voting in decades. Within a few hours of becoming the first female (and self-proclaimed feminist!) Speaker of the House - she announced her plan for many positive (relative, I know) plans for her course of action.

Now we just need the Virginia vote to be official so the Republicans can demand a recount - and then to see how they try to finagle there way out of dealing with this one. Bush is so distraught he's already needing to be bleeped through his press releases! :) What a happy day!