Oh boy. How bad a sign is it for the New York Times if an election analysis in a Swiss newspaper pokes fun at it? The newspaper in question is the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which always has had excellent international news coverage. I don't always agree with it, but they do have reporters in weird places that tend not to get covered well by other newspapers. Anyway, they have some good election analysis, in which they have this right at the beginning:

With the risky big deployment of their very popular president the Republicans have succeeded in obtaining majorities in both houses of Congress. That is very unusual in mid-term elections, and the "New York Times" reacted with marked reluctance in the comment section "Mr. Bush's Big Night."