Sarah Palin on GOP Wins: 'Victory for Common Sense and Sanity'

After using her Facebook page to endorse candidates, speak out on issues and encourage her followers to vote in Tuesday's elections, Sarah Palin updated the page last night to call Election Day 2009 "a victory for common sense and fiscal sanity."

The former Alaska governor congratulated Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell, the Republicans who won the top jobs in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as Kim Guadagno, the first woman to become lieutenant governor of the Garden State.

"Of course, the real victors in this election are the ordinary men and women who voted for positive change and a return to fiscal sanity. Your voices have been heard," she wrote to her supporters.

She also weighed in on the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District, where Palin and other conservative activists squared off against a liberal Republican, only to have their candidate, Doug Hoffman, edged out by Democrat Bill Owens. "The race for New York's 23rd District is not over," she wrote. "Just postponed until 2010." Palin said that the economy was the key issue for all of the races Tuesday, and will remain the most important issue going into next year's midterm elections.

Finally, she closed with a quote from Ronald Reagan after his 1976 defeat for the Republican presidential nomination -- "the cause goes on" -- in encouraging "the tireless grassroots patriots who worked so hard" as well as "future citizen-candidates like Doug."