Posted on 11/12/2010 3:20:06 AM PST by Gomer1066
The most baffling aspect of last week's election "wave" is the fact that a few areas of the country remained untouched by it. When Scott Brown was elected in Massachusetts early this year, there was reason to believe that even some of the deep "blue" states might succumb to a turn to the right. But in November, they didn't.
In California, voters kept Barabara Boxer in her Senate seat, but more tellingly, they voted to put Jerry Brown—the washed-up old hippie known as Governor Moonbeam from his previous term in office—back into the governor's mansion. In Massachusetts, only ten months after Scott Brown, Republicans didn't pick up a single House seat, and Obama clone Deval Patrick was re-elected as governor. And while Illinois voted to put a squishy moderate Republican into Barack Obama's Senate seat and added a few GOP House seats "downstate"—i.e., outside of Chicago—they also voted for a Democratic governor who promised to raise their taxes to fill the gaping maw of the state's public employee pensions. New York also put off any day of reckoning with its budget problems.
On the national level, this is more of an annoyance: it cost Republicans their shot at a bare majority in the Senate, but it's not clear how much the Republicans could have accomplished with those extra Senate votes, anyway. The real damage will be caused in the states themselves, because each of the holdout states is being destroyed by exactly the policies its voters chose to keep on supporting.
A number of years ago, a leftist wrote a book titled What's the Matter with Kansas?, which asked why those rubes in flyover country keep voting for conservatives when it's against their economic interests....
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To tell you the truth, I'm still...not shocked, but something...that Sean Bielat lost. Like I posted (and others here in area); the Sean signs were out in force. As Election Tuesday got closer, I did notice some houses had both Patrick and Bielat signs on their lawns, which told me Deval was going to pull it out.
Sean could have won in the 10th CD. I did predict that Perry would get burned by the police officer/underage girl/alleged abuse charges - that's all we heard the last 2-3 weeks of the campaign.
Too bad RI decided to stick with stupidity too; Loughlin was a terrific candidate for the Patches seat. At least NH and ME showed that they aren't finished yet.
Although Quinn pulled it out, you got a RINO to take the Obama seat (funny how the media never mentions that a Republican won that seat, eh?) and a few Congressional seats too. As a whole, the GOP did very, very well in the Midwest - a great sign for 2012.
Agreed with you about all that. We can look forward to
“Patches’ last day as Cong.”
Yes sir - no more Kennedys (at least for this Congress)!!!
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