[arkansascon76]

I'm a first time poster, but have been on this site for years. As an Arkansan I am proud of my state. Unlike the rest of the country, we have been moving more conservative. For the first time since reconstruction, our house and our senate are controlled by Republicans. That is about the only good news last night.

My take...Republicans did not turn out. McCain got more votes than Romney. Obama got 10 million less than he got in 2008. This should have been a CAKE WALK!!! What happened? We alienated people like Sarah Palin. We alienated the people that carried us in 2010. We compromised our conservative values to try to appease the moderates and look where it got us.

What to do now? There is one person on our bench that can bring us out of the ashes in 2016. Marco Rubio has to be the man. This is a no brainer.

[Democrat_media]

I'm proud of my state also.We in Louisiana even with the chocolate city of new orleans had 70% voter turnout and we voted 60% to 40% for Romney.
Alabama, OK, and others seemed to be the same. What more could we have done?

Maybe secession.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

In a word.. FEMALES!

[Quickgun]

I like Rubio, but I have serious doubts if this nation can be saved from a catastrophe such as it has never known before.

[rightly_dividing]

Welcome to Free Republic.

[donna]

Marco Rubio is for open borders.

Did you know that in Mexico, when you are arrested, you are guilty until proven innocent?

America’s future.

[Grampa Dave]

Congratulations to your state.

I’m sending a copy of your post to a retired couple we know. They are the old time democrats and are scared of how our state, Californicator land is headed.

She is from Arkansas and has relatives and friends back there. He is a rabid duck hunter and fisherman. She would require being close to a fairly large city for her artsy genes.

Arkansas might be a good option for them.

[niteowl77]

By "we," I assume you mean the GOP-e. The same GOP-e that still thinks John Boehner is more useful than the proverbial tits on a boar. I went on record during the primaries saying that Mitt Romney as a candidate would be a losing situation for the USA and for:

1. Mitt Romney
2. The LDS church
3. The GOP
4. The tea party movement.

Home run. The rain falls on the just and the unjust, the tea party (what is left of it) being one of the former.

Mr. niteowl77

[cherry]

I don't trust the votes nor the voting process....all reports are that the polls were jam packed...all reports is that write in ballots were huge in numbers....

there was fraud...many Romney votes went to bammy.....via fixed voting machines...

[TheCPA]

I am proud to see the changes in my native state of Arkansas. And I am proud that we have purged all Democrats from major state offices in Alabama where I now live. I am for Rand Paul in 2016.

[Arrowhead1952]

What happened?

If you listen to Rush, he summed it up in five words: "You can't beat Santa Claus".

[Fledermaus]

Besides Pulaski county, what’s with all the southeastern river counties going for Obama? It’s mostly farm land.