Posted on 11/09/2016 9:03:48 PM PST by JediJones
Republicans, who have dominated control of legislatures since the 2010 mid-term election, held the majority in 67 of the country's 98 partisan legislative chambers, while Democrats had 31 going into the election. Nebraska's single chamber is nonpartisan.
In Kentucky, Republicans took over the House of Representatives for the first time since 1921...
That result leaves Republicans in control of all 30 legislative chambers in the U.S. South for the first time in history, Storey said.
Republicans also wrested control of the Iowa Senate and the Minnesota Senate from Democrats, according to NCSL.
Democrats hit their target in the New Mexico House of Representatives, gaining a majority of seats, and took over both chambers of the Nevada Legislature.
In Hawaii, the only Republican in the Senate was ousted, making the Democratic-controlled chamber the first all one-party state legislative chamber since 1980. One chamber, the Connecticut Senate, came out of the election tied.
Democrats retained control of the Illinois Legislature but lost their veto-proof majority in the House...
Missouri's legislature and governor's office will be totally under Republican control...Vermont will be split with the election of Republican Phil Scott as governor.
Republicans extended their majority of U.S. governorships in Tuesday's vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
This will have long-term effects, especially in continued GOP control of the House in the following decade.
After yesterday’s elections, Democrats are at their lowest ebb since the 1920s.
Nevada going down the toilet. Should have built a damned wall.
Yet Rove, Lowry, Billy Kristol, and Sh*t Fume insisted that Trump would hurt Republicans from sea to shining sea.
Just keeps getting gooder and gooder!
I can tell my three grandchildren, 6, 5 and 2 that, for now, we have staved off the destruction of the American Republic.
I will tell them that they will still need to be vigilant and that:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Hey Reuters, why hasn’t AZ been called for Trump? They are at 99.68% precincts reporting, and Trump is ahead 4.4%. No chance Hillary gets anywhere near close enough to trigger a recount. So, why wait?
Bump for later
Connecticut Senate is tied...maybe in 2018, Connecticut Republicans will win the Governorship and the Senate. They need to reduce the power of the Working Family Party. WFP is a Marxist party.
They sacked Sam Slom in the Senate. Time to cut the Marxist People’s Paradise of Hawai’i loose.
Just like the Democrats.
Amata Coleman Radewagen was reelected in American Samoa without any fuss. More good news.
I was looking her up the other day when they only had the absentee or early ballots counted and she was well ahead. Mrs. Coleman-Radewagen has the singular distinction of having run for Congress unsuccessfully more times than anyone before finally being elected (11th or 12th time, IIRC). One might say the model for never giving up, at least with respect to holding office.
Unfortunately, GOP ex-Gov. Felix Camacho failed to defeat 83-year old Madeleine Bordallo in the Guam Delegate race.
The sole gain for the GOP in the 6 non-states was in PR for Resident Commissioner with Jenniffer Gonzalez, only the 2nd GOP-aligned member in the modern era after Luis Fortuño.
It was only the day before the election I realized the PNP nominee for PR Res Com was a Republican, stupendous! I don’t know if the new Governor is but he sounds decent.
I’m glad our Delgate in American Samoa won reelection in a landslide.
On Legislatures.
State Senate! All right, I’m glad we got something in MN, they were tease, 2 nearly tied House races one of which wasn’t even considered a top tier race. And at least Jason Lewis beat the lesbo.
Iowa Senate!
Sad about the NM House but not surprising. And Nevada.
In IL it was the lone bright spot of the election. We gained 5 in the state house and lost 1 for a net of 4. Jack Franks the moderate rat in McHenry county retired and we finally got that seat back. The lone Chi Republican won despite a disgusting ad calling him a rapist because of Trump, rat incumbent who used a rape ad against her female opponent also lost.
And gained 2 State Senate seats, District 47 was UNOPPOSED somehow, a takeback of the seat lost in an upset (no-redistricting related) in 2002.
The other gain was District 59! In the southern tip of the state. I’ve wanted that one forever. I’m not sure but I think we last had it in the 50’s.
Narrow loss in another district, the Senate President’s damn cousin won reelection. The collar counties are getting really bad. Trump wins Alexander County and gets creamed in DuPage.
Hawaii sucks.
CF, did we get any of those state leg seats in Cali? I’m afraid to even look.
No, unfortunately the new PR Governor (PNP) is a Democrat and militantly pro-statehood, Ricky Rosselló (son of the former Governor). He’s vowed to hold elections to send a full delegation to Congress: 2 Senators and 5 Congressmembers. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the likely political makeup of a federal delegation.
It’s unfortunate the GOP lost the NM House, but the lines were drawn to elect a Democrat majority. Hopefully the fluke win in 2014 won’t be the last for another 62 years. However, it wasn’t a clean sweep for the Democrats. They did fail in some key races and the GOP knocked off the Senate Majority Leader.
I had an inkling Nevada was going to be trouble (and like with NM, they hadn’t won the Assembly there outright in 30 years). The GOP had difficulty organizing the body 2 years ago, replacing the designated Speaker and that caused problems. They’ve had more luck with the State Senate, though. I said before I suspect voter fraud in Clark County was very prominent. I don’t believe the statewide totals at all and expect that at least 4 offices were stolen just in that locale (Prez; Sen & 2 House seats). Unfortunately, as you know, I could not endorse Joe Heck in the Senate race, he was an awful choice and the worst sort of establishment flunky (along the lines of Flake in AZ). He was so bad I endorsed Sharron Angle over him in the primary, and you know how much I’m a fan of hers.
I’m glad you made some gains in IL, if that helps any. It’s too bad Chicagoland can’t be cut loose, as it holds the entirety of the state hostage, which would’ve voted for Trump and large GOP majorities a la Indiana.
In California, it appears the Senate margin is unchanged: 26D-14R (though 1 GOP seat hasn’t been called on one site I’m looking at, though the Republican leads).
In the Assembly, the Dems have been declared winners in 52 seats (what they already held), the Republicans in 23 and 5 are “pending” results (the 12th will make it 24R since there are 2 GOPers in the race; the 27th has 2 Dems, so that makes it 53D; the 40th dist has the GOP incumbent ahead, so that makes 25R; the Dems have appeared to defeat the 2-term GOP incumbent in the 60th, Eric Linder, who hails from Corona/Riverside, so that makes 54D (he barely won in 2012 over the Dem, but widely in ‘14); in the O.C.-based 65th, the Dem leads by 1% over freshman Young Kim (R), which would then increase it to a 55D margin; in the 66th, freshman David Hadley (R) who barely won in ‘14 from Rancho Palos Verdes in L.A. County lost by 6% to a Dem). So overall the GOP defeated no incumbents (surprise) and the Dems reclaimed 3 seats if the numbers hold, which will return them to the 55-25 margin they were at with the 2012 elections.
The only seats the GOP came within 10% of winning in the Assembly were the aforementioned 3 they lost and the 24th (coastal Santa Clara). None of the Senate seats up came within 10% for the GOP challengers.
There is no California dreaming in this election. Hillary Clinton won the state by an even bigger margin than Barack Obama did. She ran very well for a Democrat among high-income white voters.
It looks like Ami Bera won another term in Congress, though it’s theoretically possible that he could lose. Darrell Issa was a great Good Government spokesman and it’s more likely than not he’ll be one again.
In a major triumph, RINO Assemblywoman Catherine Baker was reelected in the heavily ‘Rat San Francisco Bay area.
Not much to cheer otherwise. State Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang appears to have held a vacant state Senate seat for Republicans, but uncounted votes could cause this rising star to lose.
We lost at least 2 Assembly seats, David Hadley lost reelection in a solidly Democrat seat in the south Los Angeles Bay area, that he won at all is amazing. Eric Linder was defeated by changing demographics in the Riverside area. Young Kim appears to have lost a rematch to ‘Rat Sharon Quirk-Silva.
A lot of new rising stars nonetheless in California. Vince Fong of Bakersfield is a former aide to Congressman Kevin McCarthy. Phillip Chen succeeded Ling Ling Chang after serving on the San Gabriel Valley School Board. Dante Acosta of Santa Clarita could have been a rising star, but was tainted by sexual harassment charges by a former aide to his primary opponent. I’m not aware of any proof that the charges are true.
California has become the American Nightmare in the post-Reagan Era, and has been all downhill since 1996.
The Statehood party candidate is for statehood?
That’s a shocker. ;-p
The CA seats didn’t go well. Three incumbents in the state Assembly lost, giving the ‘Rats a super-majority. It looks like the CA Senate stays the same, Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang leads in an open seat by about 5,000 votes.
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