Posted on 11/04/2010 6:59:39 AM PDT by kingattax
Tuesday was a great day for Republicans, not just because they won a lot of new congressional seats. It was also about which seats they captured.
To note just a few of the most prominent examples, grizzled Democratic incumbents such as Minnesota's Jim Oberstar, South Carolina's John Spratt, and Pennsylvania's Paul Kanjorski lost Tuesday after serving for decades in the House.
These gains for Republicans are powerful examples of principled opposition trumping entrenched power and money, and they are encouraging.
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I'm still flummoxed by the fact that the Governor and House votes went ~360k to 310k for the GOP, but Harry won by about the same margin. How did he get 40k+ otherwise-GOP voters to support him?!? Arrgh
Well, consider that the default setting on the voting machines in Nevada was Reid and the contract for maintaining the machines was with the SEIU.
If we had an unbiased media, Wednesday’s headline would have been....
AMERICAN VOTERS DRAIN SWAMP.
I’m disappointed. House wins are nice, but if we want to repeal ObamaCare, we need to have soon close to 60 Senate seats (and Pres Palin or some other GOP President in 2012).
In order to achieve that, we needed to win about 10 seats this year (and then additional 9-10 in 2012).
Unfortunately, in this sense, 2010 election was a disaster for us.
Losing CT, NV, NY, CO, (likely) WA, CA, WV was really bad. We had once in a lifetime shot in NY (had Guliani or Pataki run) and other blue/purple states.
I can’t see us winning 15 seats in 2012, given that even with super-wave we only won 6.
Some enterprising fellows in Nevada needs to work on that aspect of teh election. They need to track down exactly who, where, why, how the fraud took place on those machines.
When we have the details ironed out, we need to get a group of guys together to pay the people directly responsible for this a personal visit.
If fear of the court system and going to jail for this isn’t going to deter these F’ers (heh.. why would it? the marxists in government condone it)... Then fear of being put in the GD hospital will have to do...
The new House, in January, easily passes bill to repeal Obamacare, with maybe 10-20 Dem votes. It goes to the Senate. With the new GOP numbers, and all the Dems up in 2012, Reid will not be able to keep it from coming to the floor, where it will pass, with a surprising number of Dem votes, maybe 10+..so they send it to Obama...he vetoes it..they do it again, month after month..as the bill becomes more and more unpopular, as people see their premiums rising and their options decreasing..the 2012 election will become about getting rid of Dude so that we can repeal the bill.
How did he get 40k+ otherwise-GOP voters to support him?!?
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We all know.
Looking at the silver lining, the House will have the initiative, and the surviving Democrat senators my be feeling the chill. Senator is arguably the most cush job in the United States, and they may want to survive.
Also, that sour wizened, malevolent geek face IS the face, the poster boy, for Congressional Democrats now. Just as Obama’s election spurred some very salutary reawakening and reform in the US electorate, Harry Reid may be compelled to serve as our own example specimen of why the Democrat party needs to be obliterated in 2012.
One key difference is *which* Senate seats are up for reelection. This was a very unfavorable year for pickups on that basis; 2012 is much better.
If they were going to commit fraud, why not pull Rory and Dina along to victory too... why just Harry?
I thank the perseverance of Sarah Palin, without her this would arguably not have happened to the degree of which it did bear fruits of success.
This was a victory but not the end of the battle, this was just the prologue of what will happen in 2012, all she needs is MORE support.
I could see this playing out.John and Mitch should get together and work this angle.
I guess some people are so caught up in themselves so much that the rest of the Nation can go to hell as long as they have theirs!
Yes, but if we cannot win purplish states like WA, NV, CO, CT in super-wave year, how likely it is that we can win every similar state in 2012 (with larger urban voting as always in Presidential elections)?
We can and should nominate stronger candidates. For example, Angle was not ready after primary vote and let Reid to define her (and she had a lot of gaffes). Being a candidate is not for novices.
What a bunch of whining negativity you are!
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