Posted on 06/17/2020 7:59:28 AM PDT by Liz
2010 started with a Republican Senate seat in true-blue Massachusetts, Democrats first such defeat in decades. On Nov. 2, Republicans gained six more Senate seats and a whopping 63 House seats, the worst midterm House losses since 1938. The damaging 2010 federal election results were nothing compared to what happened later when Democrats got their political clocks cleaned by aggressive state Republicans.
Obama was more interested in his own reelection and fundraising. After 417 weeks in office, he’d held 416 fundraisers. Under Obama, Democrats lost upwards of 1,000 legislative seats along with control of chamber after chamber, plus numerous governors’ offices. In 2010 alone, the GOP captured control of 24 state legislative chambers, twice the historical average.
The GOP got to pursue popular conservative agendas in state after state with little fear of gridlock or veto. Additionally, state legislatures and governors’ chairs are the farm teams of federal politics where up-and-comers practice their trade and build statewide name recognition that secures future election victories. Those GOP successes erased much of a generation of future federal Democrats.
However, from a long-term perspective, the Obama wounds handed state Republicans widespread control of legislative redistricting stemming from the 2
010 Census, setting them up for enduring election successes.
Last fall, Democrats got back the U.S. House. But despite a perceived national wave of anti-Trump sentiment, they only regained six state legislative chambers, half the historical average, while Republicans took one.
Today, the GOP still controls both legislative chambers in 30 states, Dems in 19. ..... the first time in 105 years that every state with two legislative chambers but one (Minnesota) is totally controlled by a single party.....a revealing indicator of the sharp partisan distinctions gripping the land.....the battle-grid for state elections, which determine who redraws state-level districts according to census results.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
The damage done by the usurpation is incalculable.
It may yet prove to be fatal.
“Democrats still trying to undo damage Obama’s presidency inflicted (Dems lost upwards of 1,000 legislative seats and state power centers)”
Damage to the Democratic party? How about the incalculable damage he did to our Republic.
Too bad republicans are such cucks and really couldn’t capitalize on Obama’s awful legacy (though that’s mostly because they are basically democrats anyway). They would have kept the House if Paul Ryan was a pathetic loser. Even know republicans are trying their hardest to lose even more seats, Trump seems to be the only guy who wants to win.
Undo all the damage so they can do it again....and more of it.
The Communists do not care if the Democrats lose much of their national power, as long as the Communists gain control of the party in the process.
The Communists do not care if the Democrats lose much of their national power, as long as the Communists gain control of the party in the process.
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As long as they control these big metropolitan machines, they’ll never lose too much power though. They can just bide their time. They have population on their side.
Bingo. The fiction is that the Democrats were good and Barack Hussein Obama lost them seats but the reality is that they turned Communist, chased away their non-Communist supporters, and lost their own seats. Obama was a part of the Communist faction.
“Today, the GOP still controls both legislative chambers in 30 states, Dems in 19. ..... the first time in 105 years that every state with two legislative chambers but one (Minnesota) is totally controlled by a single party”
Oh, look! Good news. Let’s minimize it, ignore it and trash it.
We’re doomed!!!America is finished!!!
The loss of legislative seats in state and local elections is going to be more severe after this civil unrest and craziness with Covid.
It is inevitable.
All of us, me included, would do well to remember that there is a large silent majority that wants law and order. They don’t talk publicly or talk to pollsters, but they are there.
It took Mayor Dinkins and the Crown Heights riots to put Rudy in office in NYC. I have no reason to believe the same cause and effect will not apply around the nation.
I guess we will find out if this is really a very small number of people magnified by a willing and complicit hysteria driven media cabal or that our country is truly changed beyond our comprehension.
If ANY Republican had stood for the Constitution, Obama would still be a Junior Senator from IL.
Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
BOTH parties colluded to violate the Constitution.
Conservative judges who distort sex (male and female) to mean any perversion that is practiced.....
Is that winning?
“...which determine who redraws state-level districts...”
Except in Pennsylvania, where democrat hack supreme court justices unilaterally determine the districts.
Read later.
They seem to be pretty damaging with what they’re left with.
Gee, watta shame. Who knew?
Obama lost bigtime.......he was so-popular, with two adorable children and a fashion-perfect wife. with amazing taut upper arms who loved vegetables.
All of the losses came from a plus-perfect administration. ......as not even “a smidgen of corruption” made the headlines....sob.
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