‘The light of dawn is on the horizon’: the best moments from US midterm victory speeches | Ted Widmer

Tuesday's winners offered a new politics at a time when there is something broken in America'

As the US election returns came in throughout the night on Tuesday, there was ebullience at the size of the margin. It was comparable to the significant thumpings over the years. Yet bigger.

In 2006, Americans were exhausted by the war in Iraq (by simply changing the last letter to n", we have a similar situation today). But even that big win paled in comparison.