Allahpundit has a screen shot from FOXNews reporting that AP has declared Webb the winner. CNN.com says the same thing. I'm not sure when we started letting AP choose our Senators but maybe they know something the rest of us don't yet.

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Democrats Win Control Of Senate With Webb Victory

The swing of the pendelum is complete. Our government is now under the majority of the left.

Democrats wrested control of the Senate from Republicans Wednesday with an upset victory in Virginia, giving the party complete domination of Capitol Hill for the first time since 1994.
Jim Webb’s squeaker win over incumbent Sen. George Allen gave Democrats their 51st seat in the Senate, an astonishing turnabout at the hands of voters unhappy with Republican scandal and unabated violence in Iraq. Allen was the sixth Republican incumbent senator defeated in Tuesday’s elections.  ...

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And now...Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid
Michelle Malkin

Democrat Jim Webb declared winner in Va. Which means: Ugh.

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Harry Reid was in "hog heaven" before the news. He'll be oinking it up doubly tonight. But it's Joe Lieberman sitting in the cat bird's seat.

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Dissipation Complete
Ed Morrissey

Virginia has finished counting its ballots, and the final count makes James Webb the winner of the Senate race this evening, retiring incumbent George Allen, who at one time appeared to be a front-runner for the 2008 Presidential nomination. The decision gives the Democrats 51 seats and control of the Senate, putting Harry Reid in charge of the upper chamber: ...

... This puts an exclamation point on the dissipation of Republican rule in Congress. This makes the last two years of the Bush administration especially tricky, but not just for Bush. The narrow 51-49 margin will make it difficult to pursue any partisan initiatives. Even with the House in Democratic hands, the Senate has to gain a consensus of 60 in order to get anything done, a reality Republicans repeatedly discovered during the last four years.