12:02 AM: Dem Party chair: 'We didn't lose everything'
The wires are being unwound and the lights have come up at the Hotel Fort Des Moines, site of the Iowa Democratic Party on election night. Many people seemed to leave with mixed feelings, as Gov. Chet Culver and Roxanne Conlin lost, but Iowa's three sitting Democratic congressmen will return.
"What went right — and I know it sounds goofy: We executed a plan that was absolutely the right plan," said Sue Dvorsky, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party.
"We identified our voters, voters that have never voted in a midterm election in their lives and we turned them out," Dvorsky said. "That's what went right."
Dvorsky said the re-election of Tom Miller to attorney general represented a positive note, as it is "enormously important to have a watchdog."
More important was the re-election of Iowa's three sitting congressmen.
"In a year when they said it was gonna be a tsunami and we'd lose everything, we didn't lose everything," Dvorsky said.
-- By Matt Nelson
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