Posted on 12/20/2014 6:11:32 PM PST by SMGFan
The votes have been tallied and all recounts completed. Congress even managed to adjourn sine die. That means it really is time to close the books on the 2014 election cycle. It also means that we are going to take some time off to recharge for the 2016 election. We’ll be back the week of January 12, 2015. In the meantime, here are 40 interesting facts about the 2014 election to hold you over while we are away. Happy holidays.
1. There were two magic numbers in 2014: 86 and 1928
- Democrats now have the lowest number of U.S. House seats they have held in 86 years, or since 1928.
- Democrats are tied for the lowest number of U.S. Senate seats they have held in 86 years, or since 1928.
- Democrats now hold fewer state legislative seats than they have in 86 years, or since 1928.
2. Republicans picked up nine seats to win the majority in the U.S. Senate. The GOP hasn’t won more than six Senate seats in a single cycle since 1994 when they picked up 10 seats.
3. Republicans didn’t lose a single incumbent Senator in a primary or in the general election for the first time since 2004.
4. Republicans defeated five Senate incumbents; Mark Begich (AK), Mark Pryor (AR), Mark Udall (CO), Mary Landrieu (LA), and Kay Hagan (NC). The last time Republicans defeated more than two Democratic incumbents in a cycle was in 1980. Also, it was a bad year to be a Democratic Senator named Mark.
(Excerpt) Read more at cookpolitical.com ...
38. Republicans now control 69 of 99 state legislative chambers. They control both chambers in 30 states, and control the legislature and the Governor’s office in 23 states.
39. Democrats have majorities in both legislative chambers in just 11 states; the fewest in 150 years (courtesy NCSL.org).
I'd love to be rid of at least one more "Mark" senator, Mark Kirk, so called "republican" - Illinois.
Obama’s done more to the Democratic Party than the Civil War.
Only if you replace him with someone more conservative.
10. 47 percent of all Democratic general election spots in the Colorado Senate race focused on abortion
That’s a loser issue for Dems nationally and it looks like statewide in a majority of states as well.
17. After the 2006 election, there were 57 Democrats who sat in districts carried by George W. Bush. After the 2014 election, there are just 5 Democrats who sit in a district carried by Mitt Romney.
The nation is highly polarized.
21. Of the 118 districts where less than 50% of residents are non-Hispanic whites, Democrats will hold 98 (83%). Of the 114 districts where over 80% of residents are non-Hispanic whites, Republicans will hold 97 (85%).
Here’s what Obama’s people are seeing and responding to. They’ve taken on the least likely to vote part of the electorate and unless they’re kept in constant agitation they’ll fade on the Democrats.
Ping.
Probably going to be very along time before the country elects another racist Muslim from Kenya.
Even more good news:
32. And because we can’t help ourselves from looking ahead … Democrats would need to pick up 30 Republican-held House seats to take back the chamber in 2016, but only 16 of 247 House Republicans won their elections by less than 10% in 2014. By contrast, in 2010, 42 of 242 House Republicans won by less than 10%.
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Just kidding, we can't really do that anymore.
That said, I do want to save this excellent article, and encourage my good FRiends hereabouts to do the same.
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And just what did we get for all that voting? NOTHING! That’s what! They funded obamacare and amnesty.
40. Finally, because the 2016 election is just 690 short days away … Hillary Clinton is much better positioned two years out from the 2016 election than she was two years out from the 2008 campaign. A Washington Post/ABC poll of Democratic voters taken in December of 2006 found her leading the field with just 39 percent of the vote. The most recent McClatchy/Marist poll showed her ahead of the pack with a whopping 62% of the vote.
Washington Post/ABC – 12/7-11/06
McClatchy/Marist – 12/3-9/14
Clinton – 39% Clinton – 62%
Obama - 17% Biden – 11%
Edwards – 12% Warren – 9%
Gore – 10 %
In fact, the only other candidate to have as large a lead as Clinton this far out from an open presidential campaign was Al Gore. A June 1999 ABC/Washington Post poll found him with a 65-percent to 26-percent lead over Bill Bradley.
Not a good time to sit an election out, unless you want another President Clinton? We need to coalesce around a suitable conservative candidate and it won’t be a Senator.
“unless you want another President Clinton?”
As oppose to a Romney or a Jeb Bush? A difference in name only.
101. The republican party is the other side of the ass
“40. Finally, because the 2016 election is just 690 short days away … Hillary Clinton is much better positioned two years out from the 2016 election than she was two years out from the 2008 campaign.”
Of course, in 690 days, Her Thighness will be 690 days older also. So will the wrinkles under her eyes, her saggy boobs, her cankles and so forth. Her voice may be even more screechy. I’ll get you and your little dog, too!
Father time has not been kind to Hillary Clinton. And I still rather listen to someone scratch a piece of tin with their fingernails than to listen to her speak.
As a resident, I can say it seemed more like 90 to 95 percent. As far as I could tell, the 'rats thought the only problem in the State, Country, and world was that any Republican in office might single-handedly end all abortions and that this would bring about the end of civilization as we know it.
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Obama has managed to do what no Republican could. He has returned the country to the Republican dominance that was the norm from the end of the Civil War until after the Stock Market Crash of 1929 that ushered in Roosevelt Socialism/Progressivism. This will be Obama’s legacy.
The other thing that he has done is to complete the realignment of the two major political parties. When I was growing up, liberals and conservatives could be found in both parties. The Democrats were the haven of the Socialists and Communists, but they were not in power and operated in the background. Today we find few liberals and fewer Socialists/Progressives in the Republican Party and few moderates and no conservatives in the Democrat Party. Events of the next two years will lock this realignment in for at least 30 years. The blue collar, white working class will no longer vote for the Democrat Party. This will be called racism, but it will reflect the fact that the Democrats no longer represent their interests and political philosophy.
Good news for conservatives.
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