The good news in local races in Colorado continues to pour in. As of this writing, Katie Witt appears to be poised to win a seat on the Longmont city council.

Right-leaning candidates are faring extremely well tonight in Colorado.

The New Jersey governor race can now be called for Republican Chris Christie who defeats incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine. Christie has a 6-point lead at this time with the cast majority of votes counted.

The last Republican to win this seat was in 1993 and was a bellwether for the 1994 GOP sweep.

Congratulations are in order for Gov.-elects Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie.

The Republican Party backed slate of candidates for the Douglas County School Board have taken an early lead and will likely win barring a massive turnaround for their opponents.

John Carson, Dan Gerken, Doug Benevento, and Meghann Silverthorn are all leading in their respective races.

Initial returns from Denver indicate that charter school proponent Mary Seawall is on track to crush union-backed candidate Christopher Scott by at least a 2-1 margin in the Denver Public Schools board at-large race.

Initiative 300, a proposal to increase penalties for driving without a license, appears to be headed for defeat by a similar margin.

Barack Obama made a number of trips to Virginia and New Jersey to help out Democratic gov. candidates Creigh Deeds and Jon Corzine, but exit polling of the races out tonight shows that Obama's trips were a wash with voters in deep-blue New Jersey and may have actually motivated the opposition more in Virginia. The National Journal reports:

A majority of voters in both states said, for the most part, that Pres. Obama wasn't a factor in their vote. In NJ, 60% said Obama's support of Corzine didn't play a role either way, which 55% of VA voters said they didn't consider Obama's embrace of state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) when deciding how to vote.

Of voters who said Obama's support did play a role, 19% of NJ voters said they were voting to support Obama, while 20% said they were voting to oppose him. In VA, 18% were seeking to support Obama while 24% voted as an expression of opposition to Obama.

While polls have only been closed for 25 minutes in Virginia, the margin of Republican Bob McDonnell's lead among early returns and exit polls has already prompted several media outlets to declare him the winner.

Early results show that incumbent Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and the Republican candidate for attorney general are performing within one-point of Bob McDonnell giving the Republican Party a clean sweep of the state of Virginia.

Most of the Virginia legislature is up for grabs tonight, with Republicans expected to make major inroads there as well.