Oh Gunita loses NH 1 to Che Porter. Carol Che Porter. The face of the New New Hampshire. Creepy little state. Can we take away their first in the nation primary now?
Big nothing in New England.
O’fer.
We kept the NH leg, I think, its close. Float away new England, float away. Maine leg must be lost.
Oh the icing on the cake. The gays. Maine and Maryland go gay. The first victories for the gays at the ballot box.
Bachmann has pulled ahead but they are still counting. She’s up 2 k.
MN narrowly votes down men marrying each other.
In WA it’s narrowly ahead with half the vote in. Craavick is a goner to a former rat Congressman from another district in the 70’s.
So Phil, you were dead wrong on IL. It was even worse than I thought.
Of the 4 and only 4 “democrat leaning” seats we won in 2010 that were STILL democrat leaning, MN-8, IL-17, NH-1, NY-25 they got all 4 back.
Your overall call of minus 10 looks spot on though if my math is right. Could be more. So good job though your reasoning was wrong. Thank goodness we won redistricting and halfway did a decent job with the House races. The 2014 target list is shaping up.
Should Jim Matheson be on it? Those idiots in Utah must be racist.
Cali will be a battleground the next 10 years, after taking 10 years off with a map with almost no competitive seats.
Not surprised.
But I made it a point to vote against it here, Question 6 in MD ..
And I posted the story here about the lesbo handing me the card
Sorry but delusion and fantasy got us no-where. All these posts tonight and the past few months claiming Rs will win big accomplished NOTHING . Wishing is NOT doing it.
Exuse me, NH-2 is dem not NH-1 though we lost that seat too just like in 2008. We can take 1 back in 2014. 2 I think is lost.
In 2008 that woman Che Porter was nobody, a random commie witch. She beat a popular RINO, Jeb Bradley. Pundits had the seat safe R, no one saw it coming.
New Hampshire used to be the most democratic New England state back when New England was Republican! It’s been the most Republican by far for a while now. But it’s following the rest, 2010 was a temporary move back to sanity. Sad. That was a once proud region.
Excuse me again, Che Porter first won in 2006.
I’m signing off now.
Yeah, Phil's predictions on Illinois were completely wrong, but his predictions on the national Congressional races were pretty accurate (albeit for the wrong reasons). I think the numbers nationally are pretty depressing... looks like we lost Allen West and almost lost Michelle Bachmann. If we have to lose some Republicans though, I hope this election cycle means we'll never see Mary Bono Mack or her hubby in politics again (and buh-buh Bob Dold after your "I'm my own man and independent-minded" persona from 2010 turned out to mean "I'm a clone of Mark Kirk and will follow his lead on everything, including voting far-left on abortion and claiming its socially moderate").
Biggert WAS a huge shocker though. I would have guessed 52% Biggert - 47% Foster, and probably 59% Biggert under the old district lines. I even endorsed some pro-life candidate running a write-in campaign because I figured "well, she'll win anyway now that Foster's been exposed as a wife beater, so might as well cast a protest vote)
I also think it's hilarious how the RATs shot themselves in the foot with the California redistricting and accidentally turned those seats competitive. If they're doing this poorly when Obama wins the state handily, imagine how they'd be doing if we had a hugely popular GOP candidate at the top of the ticket. That might be the one ray of sunshine, especially since California is demographically where the rest of America is headed (the racial "minorities" are the majority) and the GOP is still holding their own in a lot of those seats
At least I won't have to eat crow and apologize to McMahon and Akin supporters for saying we'll lose if they're the Republican candidate in the November. Akin supporters will probably still say it's the fault of the "GOP establishment" though.
Fortunately, I didn't make many predictions this year, especially with the Presidential races since most of the polls were all over the map. The only firm things I said about the Presidential contest was that Republicans were delusional to think they'd win the "Jewish vote" (I predicted Obama would easily win the "Jewish vote" with about 2/3rds of Jews overall, down from his 78% in 2008) and I said Democrats were delusional to think Arizona was "in play" and that Romney would carry it easily and Sheriff Joe would win a sixth term no matter much they blasted him and spent money trying to take him out.
Pretty sure the numbers will show I was spot on with both predictions on the presidential race.