After a protracted and excrutiatingly tense recount, Dem Joe Courtney appears to have clinched a win in the race for Connecticut's Second District, ousting GOP Rep. Rob Simmons by all of 91 votes, the Associated Press is reporting. Courtney received word of his victory last night at dinner with other Dems in the Capitol, where he's already assumed the role of incoming Congressman, according to the Hartford Courant. "Courtney received a bear hug from Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the architect of the party's House victory," the Courant notes. "The closeness of the contest has spurred a new nickname for Courtney in Washington: 'Landslide Joe.'"