"On the other hand, voters in Hawaii and Alaskaapproved bans on gay marriage," he said.

RAZA Vice President Gustavo A. Torres '99 sawthe Democrats' success as a sign that theMexican-American/Latino vote is becoming moreinfluential.

"I think that yesterday's election resultssuggest that Latinos were out voting. Particularlyin California, Latinos appear to have come out insupport of the Democratic nominees," Torres said.

Reflecting on why there was a change of power,Republicans said that there was a lack of unity inthe party.

Their failure to highlight a few key issuesperhaps contributed to their losses, Molinarisaid.

"Republicans were talking in twenty topics...wefailed to focus on three or four issues," shesaid.

Susan Eisenhower, a colleague of Molinari's atthe IOP, said the ad campaign focusing onPresident Clinton's affair with Monica S. Lewinskyhurt the party.

"I knew we were going to take a bath lastnight," Eisenhower said.

Co-President of the Republican Club C.J.Mahoney '00 put the GOP's loss into perspective.

"This was disappointing for us because we hadsuch great expectations. But when you take a stepback, we held Congress for the third time in arow," Mahoney said.

"It's not a disaster. It's not the kind ofrebuke that the Democrats received from theelectorate in 1994," he said