By Greg Veis

It's a little more than a week after Election Day, and the precriminations have turned into recriminations in Punditland. The Democrats won because of the moderate candidates they fielded; the Republicans lost because they were driving drunk on 12 years of power; the voters were sick of Bush's inability to talk straight; and, of course: Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. But what of the actual members of the congressional Class of 2006? What did they think about the election? And what are they like as people? Are their legislative priorities sound ones? Do they believe grown men should be using emoticons in correspondence with teenage boys? Inquiring minds, ya know. So we sent out a list of similar questions—some personal, some professional, some wildly inappropriate—to a handful of last Tuesday's biggest winners. Scroll down to read what they had to say for themselves.

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