This just got me very excited

this is a paragraph from a Swiss newspaper talking about the state of the United States lately, with reference to today's election....and this part just made me so anxious, excited and hopefull about the election.

In any event, both of America's Congressional chambers are within an ace of a turning out the majority. In other words, George Bush could from now be obliged to govern by compromise. This is a nightmare for a President who for the last six years had plenty of elbow room. His father, former president George H.W. Bush, doesn't deny it: he'd rather "not think about his son's life" in the event of a Democrat wave.

Because for example, it would no longer be so easy to place conservative judges on the Supreme Court. Great battles would occur over the program of eavesdropping on Americans, and there would be hearings on energy, environmental and health policies. Let's not even mention the tax breaks for oil companies. Democrats could stop bills and - the cherry on the cake – set up boards of inquiry to investigate the scandals surrounding the Bush Administration.

The full article is here.