Below, Gordon argues that despite the large Democratic gains last week, ours is still largely a purple country. And he's right — America has been and will continue to be a political melting pot, despite what the Republican Party has been claiming over the last few years (i.e. anyone who opposes them are in the minority of terrorist-loving cowards).

But we also shouldn't underestimate the historic nature of this election. I wouldn't call it an endorsement of the Democrats, but it certainly was a resounding rejection of the conservative philosophy of George W. Bush and the "Republican Revolution" of 1994.

Consider:

• The Republican Party did not gain a single House seat from the Democrats. You know how often a party has failed to take at least one House seat from the opposition? Yeah, that's right, never.
  
  Republicans also did not gain a single governorship or state legislative chamber, while the Dems gained six and 10, respectively. Democrats gained at least one seat in one or both chambers in 41 states, while Republicans gained one or more seat in one or both chambers in only eight states.
  
  
• Should we really be using Montana and Virginia as an argument that this was a close election? Just the fact that Democrats were able to compete in those states is amazing. The Democrats basically won every single competitive Senate seat. That's the only way they could have taken the Senate.
  
  New Hampshire has two Republican senators. In the election just past, both of New Hampshire's House seats and both state houses flipped to the Democratic Party (the house for the first time in 95 years!). Pennsylvania, Ohio and Minnesota also have Republican senators who weren't up for re-election this year. How do you think they might have fared last Tuesday?
  
  
• If this had been a presidential election, the Democratic candidate would probably have won in a landslide. Voters cast 6.5 million more votes for Democratic Senate candidates than Republican candidates. (Keep in mind, however, that 17 states did not vote for a senator this year, including much of the Deep South.)
  
  Ohio, the state that essentially gave the presidency to Bush in 2004, elected unabashed liberal Sherrod Brown to the Senate over a two-term incumbent by a 56-44 percent margin, and their new Democratic governor gained a whopping 60 percent of the vote.
  
  
• Check out these CNN exit polls. Dems won Latino support 69-30 percent and the 29-and-under vote 60-38. What do you suppose that bodes for the future?
  
  
• At least for the moment, the Republican Party has become the de facto party of the South and little else. That doesn't bode well for them, either.