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2010-11-03 Home Front: Politix
Fox news (along with other news sources) say Repubs won house
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Posted by DarthVader 2010-11-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Col. West is in! Hooha
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-03 01:13||   2010-11-03 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Frazier lost - damned libertarians provided the swing margin (5%).
Posted by OldSpook 2010-11-03 03:54||   2010-11-03 03:54|| Front Page Top

#3 With no help from Massachusetts. About 60% of folks here are too stupid to breathe.
Posted by gorb 2010-11-03 05:37||   2010-11-03 05:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I've been saying here for months that the Dem strategy (running a machine democrat as an "independent" to remove moderate votes from the republican) in MA would reelect Patrick.

Now they've gone and done it.

Webb, Bayh, or Hillary will announce just after Christmas that they've "left the Democrats" and are an independent, and will run as such for president in 2012. MA was the testbed, and since it worked there they'll do it at a national level.
Posted by no mo uro 2010-11-03 05:55||   2010-11-03 05:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone at another blog has the big story nailed:
The real story is the underreported story of the night — the Republican pick ups at the state level.

There will be 18 states subject to reapportionment. The Republicans will control a majority of those — at least ten and maybe a dozen or more. More significantly, a minimum of seventeen state legislative houses have flipped to the Republican Party.

The North Carolina Legislature is Republican for the first time since 1870. Yes, that is Eighteen Seventy.

The Alabama Legislature is Republican for the first time since 1876.

The entire Wisconsin and New Hampshire legislatures have flipped to the GOP by wide margins.

The State Houses in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Montana, and Colorado flipped to the GOP.

The Maine and Minnesota Senates flipped to the GOP.

The Texas and Tennessee Houses went from virtually tied to massive Republican gains. The gains in Texas were so big that the Republicans no longer need the Democrats to get state constitutional amendments out of the state legislature.
This victory has the potential to be a gift that keeps on giving if the Republicans perform, that far from a certainty.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-11-03 06:02||   2010-11-03 06:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Did any Pub incumbents lose in the election?
Posted by JohnQC 2010-11-03 08:40||   2010-11-03 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Anh Cao, in Louisianna that I know of. Nobody else pops to mind, but there are probably another couple or three.
Posted by Fred 2010-11-03 09:21||   2010-11-03 09:21|| Front Page Top

#8 What percentage of incumbents won their bids for re-election? How does that compare to the usual?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-03 09:23||   2010-11-03 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I think no mo uro nails it. David Axelrod has used Massachusetts as his test platform for quite a while.
Posted by Steve White 2010-11-03 09:24||   2010-11-03 09:24|| Front Page Top

#10 JohnQC
Charles Djou (R) in Hawaii lost to Colleen Hanabusa (D)

Our Donk in CA-11, Jerry McNerney, is down by 23 votes to David Harmer (R). It looks like my vote counted. However, they'll probably have a recount and Harmer will lose.

We may have turned out a Donk, Jim Costa in CA-20. However he's only behind 623 votes to Andy Vidak so the recount fear is still present. Otherwise CA is f#@ked with the same old same old except Governor Moonbeam.

Moonbeam babbles an incoherent victory speech, bend over and hold your ankles California:


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-03 10:26||   2010-11-03 10:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Absolutely right with Nimble's post. I know Kansas is not a big state compared to those listed, but it was basically a Republican sweep with token democrat State Rep wins in predictable districts. Why would that matter to anyone else? Well when they were showing that map of 10th Ammendment States there was a glaring hole which should now be filled.

The democrat AG candidate was endorsed by both the NRA and fraternal order of police, endorsements one would think would go a long ways in this state, and got trounced.
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-11-03 10:42||   2010-11-03 10:42|| Front Page Top

#12 A bunch of blue-dog Dems are out. That will help.
Posted by gorb 2010-11-03 11:32||   2010-11-03 11:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Longtime representatives were falling just as hard as freshmen...

Another one bites the dust! Republican challenger Chip Cravaack upsets Rep. Jim Oberstar (MN-DFL) Before anyone dismisses this as a just another loss for Dems you need to consider the facts. Democrats have held the Minnesota 8th district since 1947 of which Oberstar has sat for 36 years. Oberstar has never had below 59% of the vote. And as chairman of the House Transportation Commitee he has brought hundreds of millions in pork to his Union dominated district. Huge!
Posted by DepotGuy 2010-11-03 11:44||   2010-11-03 11:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Comrade Murray in WA State holds a edge lead so far - but they are still counted. May trigger an automatic recount which would mean Murray in a landslide.....

After all this is the Peoples Republic of Washington and the fix is probably already in....
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-11-03 12:03||   2010-11-03 12:03|| Front Page Top

#15 Local California newspaper, Contra Costa Times, gleefully displays this headline:

Red tide hits Blue wall
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-03 12:34||   2010-11-03 12:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Let them be gleeful. They can f'ing rot when they hit bankruptcy and the state falls apart. Self congratulatory morons - they still haven't figured out they will be stuck with the bill, a bill they cannot pay.
Posted by OldSpook 2010-11-03 14:06||   2010-11-03 14:06|| Front Page Top

#17 Here in Maine we now have a Republican State senate and house now along with Lepage as Governor. They have a rash of intractable problems that need tough solutions. And there's no money to pay the promises of the past. A hard road lays ahead. Interestingly, California voters, which have the same problems, just chose the opposite along with legalized marijuana. Let's see which state's choice works the best.
Posted by Lurker z 2010-11-03 14:40||   2010-11-03 14:40|| Front Page Top

#18 At least the masses will have their opiates, and will now always be able to make their appointed raids.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-11-03 14:49||   2010-11-03 14:49|| Front Page Top

#19 In another boon for Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, write-in ballots cast for Republican candidate Joe Miller won’t count toward his total vote count. Alaska’s Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell, who oversees elections, told the Associated Press that write-in ballots for Miller will be tossed out.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-11-03 15:03||   2010-11-03 15:03|| Front Page Top

#20 CA-11
As I feared the Donk in our district, Jerry McNerney, who was down by 23 votes has passed the Trunk, David Harmer, and is now up by 121 votes. There is some mystery Independent named David Christensen who has syphoned off nearly 9,000 votes. Looks like Donk is using Dingy Harry Reid's playbook.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-03 16:24||   2010-11-03 16:24|| Front Page Top

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