Posted on 11/11/2015 7:12:40 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Obama insists that DEMOCRATS are the future of America saying that the Republican party is 'outdated.'
In reality, Obama is dead wrong. More Republicans are making massive gains at the state and local levels. Take the victory of the governor elect Matt Bevin in Kentucky recently! Bevin, a Tea Party favorite became only the second Republican in four decades to win Kentucky’s governorship!
The Washington Post reports:
With Matt Bevin’s win in Kentucky on Tuesday night, Republicans now hold 32 of the nation’s governorships — 64 percent of all the governors mansions in the country. (One race, in Louisiana, won’t be decided until next month. Democrats believe they have a good chance of winning that race against now-Sen. David Vitter.)
Democrats’ failure to take over the Virginia state Senate means that Republicans still hold total control of 30 of the country’s 50 state legislatures (60 percent) and have total or split control of 38 of the 50 (76 percent.)
Here is a chart showing how Republicans are dominating America at a local level. That’s a whole lot of red folks!
“While the demographic and electoral challenges that Republicans must confront at the national level are very real, the idea, pushed in some circles, that those struggles are leading indicators of a dying party is absolutely wrong,†Chris Cillizza wrote for The Post.
“In fact, at the state and local level the Republican Party is considerably more robust than its Democratic counterpart.†That dominance — and what it means to the policy and political calculations and prospects for both parties at the national level — is the single most overlooked and underappreciated story line of President Obama’s time in office. Since 2009, Republicans have made massive and unprecedented gains at the state level, gains that played a central role in, among other things, handing control of the U.S. House back to the GOP in the 2010 election.
This chart via GOP lobbyist Bruce Mehlman tells that story in stark terms, however it has not been updated to include the results of the 2015 election.
This unprecedented shift at the state level is a direct result of Obama’s attempts to push his liberal agenda on all Americans, coupled with his constant attempts to increase the power of the executive branch at the expense of Congress and the courts.
States are pushing back against Obama’s agenda, showing Democrats that not everyone is willing to simply go along with their plan for an all-powerful federal government.
Will Trump/Cruz carry New York?
Oh yeah?
Jus’ you wait ‘till our Barry fills the land with Mehhiccans and ME muslims.
Bath House Barry needs to go away and never be heard from again....what he has done to this Country is a mortal sin and those that voted for him TWICE are just as bad...
Yeah, but how many of all these Pubbies are actually conservative?
Trump, NY, Cruz, FL.
Great post, mom.
Between news like this and Sundance exposing the Establishment, the TPP ties to illegal immigration, and their upcoming delegate shenanigans, state rules, etc., we conservatives are FINALLY armed with push back!
This is a great rendering of the USA and what patriots can do when they stick together.
We have GOT to stick together to crush Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
2016 will be an absolute rout.
“Will Trump/Cruz carry New York?”
No.He may do well upstate, but with NYC going 75%+ for Hillary and Long Island about 55%+ for Hillary, the rest of the state won’t matter.
He may have a better chance at winning CA than NY
What good has it done for conservatives? Nothing. Everything Obama wants, Obama gets - via a gutless, spineless, no balls Congress ... And the Republicans even hand him more than he wants (as per the latest “budget” deal) ...
And if by chance Congress fails to give Obama what he wants, then the treasonous tyrant simply pulls out his handy dandy Marxist pen and writes an E.O to bypass Congress ...
And the Republicans just sit around playing with themselves. The entire country could be colored red, but if the GOP leadership is primarily made up of establishment party hacks,who sell out at the drop of a hat, then the all that red might as well be Commie red.
“If Vitter manages to keep the Louisiana governorship in Republican hands... considering all his baggage..”
Vitter needs to reveal some of Edwards’ baggage — his loyalty to Obama. Vitter has ads out on the matter, but they are strangely non-effective in my opinion.
Think about it this way: why are the Dems so hellbent on Hillary?
It’s Because they have no viable backup plan. Their candidates are all 70 years old. Well, where do those backup plans come from? They come from state houses and governorships. And the Dems are outnumbered there 2-1. If they had someone younger, cooler to run you can bet that person would be in the race.
Anything Obama does with’the stoke of the pen’ can be undone the same way. Laws are made by Congress not by the Executive Branch.
The illegals are going home.
Yes, despite the 0bama worshippers..
With R’s like McLame Yertle Boner and Mutt, who needs dhims?
Clickbait headline has nothing to do with the content of the article. Fail.
It's pretty much a done deal according to polling...Vitter is and has been a clown. He's losing to a democrat pretending to be conservative, and Jindal is leaving the governors office in pretty bad shape.
Half of the problem is Jindal, he’s leaving a mess. The other half is Jindal with his hooker baggage.
And you can effectively blame all of it on Louisiana voters who keep reelecting these legislative bozos who are screwing up the state. They constantly switch parties. get reelected every time so it matters little who is governor. The legislature runs it’s self.
Vitter is losing by a large margin, last I heard. Yesterday
Not only are there more white Americans alive now than ever, there are more Republican voters than ever. The Democrat party would have gone extinct except for the unprecedented flood of Democrat voter transplants from third world countries, with zero RINO opposition.
The carbon footprint of each Democrat imported from Central America increases 2000% from their home footprint. Libtards: in the name of Gaia, send them back!
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