So will Tuesday's results Help the Bicycle, Outdoor, and SnowSports Industries?

Environmentalists on Wednesday hailed Democratic victories in United States congressional elections as a possible harbinger of change in the global-warming policies of the world's top polluters.

"This is a good thing for environmentalists who want more give and take on how national policy is developed."

GOP Rep. Richard Pombo, the powerful chairman of the House Resources Committee, plunged to stunning defeat at the hands of an almost unknown Democrat, Jerry McNerney, as Democrats wrested control of the House from the GOP...


Or Hurt them?


“The Democratic Party ... will protect the interests of small and medium American enterprises and labor and that could produce an impact on China-U.S. trade relations,” Zhang Guoqing of the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said

Free trade concerns after Democrat wins in US