The election results from India aren’t dire news, though they are a moderate blow to Washington, which had a very good relationship with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. His nationalist government, an ally in the war on terror, had strong support from the country’s booming middle class, whose success is something both Indians and Americans should celebrate. Now power swings away from it and toward a coalition led by Sonia Gandhi, whose strength derives in part from India’s left-wing and the rural poor.