When are they going to count the absentee ballots in Califonia?
With record numbers of voters using the absentee ballots the results are final until they are counted.
Rove and other GOP bigwigs should have kept their disdain for O’Donnell to themselves. There was no excuse for trashing her and withholding their support the way they did. And Castle was a disgrace.
Let California rot in their own fecal waste. They balanced their last budget with fiscal gimmicks and outright fraud. Meg Whitman was crazy enough to try to help fix the state, and the voters said no. So let them fix their own problems.
In an HONEST election, Sharron Angle would have won!
I agree.
The GOP should have won the Nevada Senate seat. Even with someone like Sharron came close to ousting Old Harry.
Delaware: A nightmare.
But a net pickup of 61 seats in the House! And 6 in the Senate(perhaps more on the way)!
It was a great night overall!
The folks in California and New York should be ashamed. They voted for more of Obama like government. My God, they will now reap what they have sown.
In CA, the fruits and nuts reelected Boxer, kinda reelected Brown, turned down marijuana legalization and here’s the biggie; Prop 25 passed and will allow budgets to be passed with a simple majority vote (was 2/3rds). With our permanent dem legislature, every budget will now steamroll the pubbies and no one will be left to protect the citizens.
You’d rather we had RINO’s?
The only thing I got last night was a reduction in the sales tax on alcohol. Whoopty-Doo.
even though we won big, i still feel steamed about Nv, Wa, and Ak... cause you KNOW they are going the dims way...
COD i figured would probably go down...
But Reid, that really gets to me...
We did very well statewide with several races going our way...
In Ga here, pretty much a total statewide rout...
I just feel bummed about the senate loses...
Several of the Senate candidates ultimately were big disappointments. Absolutely.
But, just below the radar, and just below the smashing House victory, the state legislatures went deeply red. This will keep the Dems away from power for a long time:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/11/03/the-tsunami/
The state gains in 1994 were big...but they were much, much bigger this time. And we are in front of redistricting!
So, the Dems took a deep body shot last night, causing massive internal bleeding. It is true they didn’t take the spectacular upper cut to the jaw knocking them out of the ring (continuing the metaphor). But they got hurt, real real bad.
Here in Frederick County, Maryland, we had three candidates named "Young." All related.
One, running for State Delegate, is a classic tax-and-spend more liberal with a long track record in local politics. His son, running for County Commissioner, a hard core Tea Partier who hosts a popular right-wing radio show, and his other son, a teacher who was running for the extremely unpopular local school board.
All three of them won. Seriously, I don't think the local voters even knew which Young they were electing, they just kept choosing Young....Young....Young...... even though the three stand for radically different values and principles.
This is what you get in a society which gets it's news from the Comedy Channel
Karl, not again ...
Those are great points.
I just hope the winners of last night encourage us to have the courage of our convictions and not just accept candidates who check off all the right boxes, who “think like we do,” and think enough of ourselves to hold out for quality. Look at the conservatives who won last night—not a scary blowhard among them. Rubio is utterly inspiring. O’Donnell wouldn’t have been capable of that speech.
We have to knock off the mewling anti-intellectual stuff that leads us to support people mostly because MSNBC doesn’t like them. We have to have more vigorous primaries and not react to the left.
When we put out conservatives who don’t just talk the talk but have records and lives reflective of conservative values, we win. When we demean our own standards and support pathetic, unworthy candidates, we look childish.
We got some good people in that appear to have some teeth and I expect them to start biting immediately.
The commies have 2 years to utilize the damaging factors that ARE already in place and they WILL activate some of them.
There are still no jobs and there are no plans to build refineries, steel mills, factories, etc.
We are still yet a service nation with no where to employ but in gummint ... THAT is our main problem.
You can't create jobs ... you CAN invent a new widget and employ people to sell, build and deliver them ... THAT is the American economy that needs to be returned.
Drill for oil/NG, refine gasoline, build factories here ... we CAN pay the better wages Americans deserve.
Sure there may have been better candidates, but where were they? Castle was not worth it. We dont need any “republican” covering that much for Libturds. The guy voted for crap-n-trade and was very squishy on Obozocare.
is it true that COD got enough support from Independents to win but the Tokyo Rove Republicans did not come out and vote for her?
Every single week, Gov. Palin and C. ODonnell took on Obama and the corrupt DNC.
Meanwhile, Rove attacked the GOP-election-chosen candidate.
In the end, she won independents. Repubs were led away from her
by Rove and his employer.
She would have been Senator TODAY (not January 2011)
had not backstabber Rove attacked, and attacked, and flayed.
Take a look at this video. It turns out O’Donnell carried independents, but not enough Republicans. I blame Rove and other establishment types for her loss, and I won’t forget.
Don’t let vote-by-mail be enacted in your state. Dudley is ahead in Oregon, but we are assured by those in the know that Kitzhaber will pull it out, due to uncounted votes in Multnomah County.
Vote-by-mail allows, at minimum, easy access for the uninformed to vote. It should be opposed.