Simple...435 different House elections and 34 different Senate elections all with different issues and different demographics.
The NE Rino's did okay. By all standards Chris Shays should have lost.
The bottom line is this: the conservative base (one-third of evangical Christians voted Dem) was tired of being ignored and this was obvious for a year or more.
Instead there were jerks here in Freeper-land and in the media telling us we'd be stupid not to support these "moderates" blah, blah, blah.
Is it worse? We don't know yet. The Dems have the same small majority the GOP had for years. They can't raise taxes - it won't fly with the blue dogs (you really think they will repeal the GOP created 10% bracket on taxable income up to about $16K and raise taxes on the "working poor" by $800 a year??? No.).
IF (a big IF) the GOP has any balls left they'll use the same Senate rules the Dems used for the last six years to stop things and filibuster the crap out of changes.
But with wussy GOP with the likes of McShame and his butt-boy Graham will back the Dems under the umbrella of "partisanship" and get screwed again.
Face it...the GOP lost because they WON'T FIGHT!
"They can't raise taxes - it won't fly with the blue dogs (you really think they will repeal the GOP created 10% bracket on taxable income up to about $16K and raise taxes on the "working poor" by $800 a year??? No.)."
Er ... a tax hike is in their *100 hour plan!*
As I understand it the RINO's lost half their members on Tuesday, so the GOP has been moved to the right. If we are to believe what they say, a great many of the new Dems are more conservative than the old Dems. So if the Dems are more conservative and the GOP is more conservative, how is this a defeat for conservatism.
Lindsey Graham is thrilled, said the next two years will probably be his best in the Senate.... translation, he can happily caucus with the dems -- if Sean keeps having him on his show then I will tune Sean out once and for all...
I have not heard one true conservative say they voted dem.
Yea well thats the problem isn't it....