So the trip has been over for a few days--I think we all needed some recovery time, so this is going to be the first post since Election Day. Everyone in the world already knows, but for the sake of posterity: we won big! We managed to retake the House and the Senate, an occurrence that was paying 3:1 odds over at the over-hyped Election Markets. In Ohio, we ran Mike DeWine out of office with a huge 12-point mandate for Sherrod Brown's decidedly progressive agenda. The new governor, Democrat Ted Strickland, won by an even bigger margin. We ousted at least one incumbent Republican in the House in Ohio, and are waiting to hear if we managed to topple Mean Jean.

The trip was an amazing success. I think everyone had fun, and the debriefing meeting/Majority Party on Friday was incredible. We are going to take this new momentum to every aspect of our political lives as Columbians and as Americans, and we are going to transform this country into a progressive land of hope once again.

Expect more technical posts in the future as we continue to build on this victory and work out a more permanent structure for the campaign trip. Lots of exciting ideas about institutionalisation and expansion have been thrown out, so we will keep the blogosphere updated as those come to fruition.