I'd say Dems won 1998, but that's just me.
They definitely beat expectations. Going into election day, everyone expected the GOP to gain at least some seats in both Houses.
Beating expectations isn't winning. Then again, I would have been happy in 2006 if we won back all the seats we lost during Bush's presidency plus the seats we lost in 2004. I'd figured that Bush wasn't popular and that we were guaranteed to win Congress in 2008 and if we got to 48 or 49 seats, and that if in 2007, John Paul Stevens croaked, there would be enough moderate Republicans to force Bush to nominate a moderate so that Bush wouldn't get a solid R party-line SCOTUS.
Now, Ginsburg's justiceship is basically the ultimate prize though I imagine she will outlive this presidency and the next.
