It’s a good night so far for the Republican party. Bob McDonnell won tonight with a margin in the neighborhood of 20 points over Democrat Creigh Deeds, more than a 20 point swing in GOP vs Dem votes from Obama’s 2008 race just a year ago. That’s a big victory for republicans anyway you slice it.

Now comes word that New Jersey’s next Governor will also be a Republican. Chris Christie is going to win, probably by about 5 points giving the GOP two key victories over Democrats in what many are seeing as a referendum on the liberal agenda of President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats.

One important race is left this evening, the NY-23 battle between Conservative Doug Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens. At this point Hoffman is down 4% with just over half of the vote in, however, there are at several cities where voting machine problems will delay the reporting of results until at least tomorrow morning. If the GOP goes three for three tonight, it could be a bad omen for Democrats in next year’s mid-term election.