Posted on 11/04/2008 10:12:15 PM PST by flattorney
This was a shock !.......:o)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/04/politics/p131414S82.DTL
Three losers in this race......Cindy, Nancy and America !
Bad luck again Nick...we redistricted you out in '04 and those dern Republicans just keep haunting you...
Bet Ted Poe had a laugh tonight on this one. He has repaid us time and time again as a fabulous congressman and we are so proud he has handily just won his 3RD term!
I wish Poe and his friend Jindal would get more into the national stage. They are so awesome.
11/05/2008 DMN: Olson upends Lampson in closely watched race - - In the end, Texas’ GOP-reinforced congressional districts built by former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were strong enough to withstand an evening of historic victories by Democrats. Voters cast out Republicans around the country and elected the first black president-elect, but the Texas congressional delegation actually gained GOP strength thanks to a man who left office in a cloud of scandal two years ago. DeLay’s the architect of Texas’ congressional map designed for perpetual Republican wins.
Pete Olson won the Houston-area district that belonged to DeLay for more than two decades, defeating Democratic incumbent Rep. Nick Lampson 53 percent to 45 percent with almost all precincts counted. Lampson served a single term in District 22, which he won against a write-in candidate after DeLay abandoned the 2006 race. “That was one of the bright spots here. We took CD22 back. That was the land occupied by Nick Lampson and it’s back in Republican hands,” said Jared Woodfill, Harris County Republican Party chairman. Lampson was the only one of Texas’ 32 congressional incumbents to lose. All other incumbents were re-elected. In the 2009-10 Congress, Texas’ delegation will have 20 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
Olson said the Democratic wins around the country show the nation is in a transitionary period. “Some people are looking for change. I will work with both sides of the aisle, but I will always represent the people of my district and their values,” Olson said. Lampson said he felt he performed well, but couldn’t overcome DeLay’s design of the district for a Republican win. Although Barack Obama won some key states to win the White House and help other Democrats, “in this case it was not meant to be,” Lampson said.
During the general election campaign, Olson emphasized his military service and painted Lampson as a liberal beholden to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He defended himself against Democrats’ allegations that he voted in a 2003 election in Connecticut while voting in Virginia that same year. The issue is under investigation.
Democrats now control the House by a 235-199 margin, with one vacancy. They unseated a half-dozen Republican incumbents and captured eight open GOP seats, capitalizing on the unusually high 29 Republican departures. Republicans knocked off three Democratic incumbents. With more than 380 of the 435 House races decided, Democrats held leads for a dozen other Republican-held seats. Republicans were leading in fewer than a handful of seats held by Democrats.
MAR
Pickups
Texas, heavilly GOP seat where the Republican was not allowed to run last time, only as a write-in (effing judge)
Louisiana cause a black dem indie sucked away some votes from the rat who took the seat in the special election.
Florida where another rat who shouldn’t have been there got caught in a sex scandal.
Kansas statewide officeholder over freshman rat in Republican seat, barley.
4 measly take backs.
Add that to the NO gains in 06 and massive conservative seat losses and it’s extremely pathetic.
I really wish at least Barletta would have won.
Lie about lying???
hmmmmm...Thats an oxymoron...Or something...
Obama’s transition team has eyes on just about everything and have built in time to take care of the annoying things like destroying free speech, getting our guns, and making sure those that have a problem with that are punished with extreme prejudice...
Ohh happy day.../sarc
A well run prfessional campaign, the likes I have never seen in this district. That team worked like he!! and very very smart it paid off. He was also a candidate with spine!! Republican voter’s and workers flocked to him in droves!
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