Republicans seize majorities in Tennessee Senate, House

Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | November 5, 2008 | Andy Sher

[Tennessee Nana]

Tennessee Republicans won a 19-to-14 state Senate majority in Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial voting totals, while House Republicans appeared to have gained a 50-to-49 margin in that chamber, giving them control of it for the first time since 1971.

For the first time since post-Civil War Reconstruction, the GOP holds majorities in both chambers, Republicans said.

House and Senate Republicans also have enough votes — 69 — to capture the three constitutional offices of secretary of state, comptroller and treasurer. The state’s 132 legislators elect the constitutional officers, and it takes 67 votes to win.

Unofficial returns showed Republican Senate candidate Ken Yager of Harriman, Tenn., won the hotly contested 12th Senate District race with Democrat Becky Ruppe.

Republicans have had operational control of the 33-member Senate, but it has been divided 16-16 between Democrats and Republicans, with a Republican turned independent, Sen. Mike Williams of Maynardville, often siding with Democrats. Unofficial returns show Mr. Williams losing to Republican Mike Faulk in the 4th Senate District and Democrats also losing the 26th Senate District.

Going into the election, House Democrats held a 53-46 edge over Republicans. But they lost four seats. That puts House Minority Leader Jason Mumpower, R-Bristol, in position to become speaker barring any unforeseen circumstances.

“The election of a Republican majority in the General Assembly is historic in its own right, and even more so given the strong Democratic tide across much of the country,” said Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Robin Smith. “Our victories send a national message that Republican values still resonate with mainstream America.”

[Osage Orange]

For the FIRST TIME ever Republican's control the Oklahoma Senate...!!

Let's see if they can prosper..and do the right things.......

[Tennessee Nana]

For the FIRST TIME ever Republican’s control the Oklahoma Senate...!!
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Republicans took over the TN Senate in 2006 for the first time in 140 years...

Now we also have the Legislature...

Again for the first time in decades..

This is the first time since Reconstruction that TN has had both the Senate and the Legis..

:)

[Grammy]

"Gov Ron Ramsey"

I like the sound of that.

[cva66snipe]

And finally got rid of Jimmy Naifeh as the Speaker of the House...

Thank You Santa. No more Mr I won't talk to you if you're not from my district Speaker of the House Naifeh. It's been a long time coming too.

[Tennessee Nana]

Thank You Santa. No more Mr I won’t talk to you if you’re not from my district Speaker of the House Naifeh. It’s been a long time coming too.
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Yeppers...

Now, what to wear to the opening day of the 107th General Assembly...

:)

[wardaddy]

reinstate that latino (?) woman and then tar and feather Naifeh

TN actually voted pretty good in the POTUS too

you got county reports yet FMDJ?

[cva66snipe]

I gotta admit though when it came to voting for Senator RINODONKEY in the red checkered flannel shirt and Wamp I just couldn't do it. I never voted for Alexander again after his post governor deals in Knoxville. He never met a millionaire he didn't seem to want taxpayers to give money to. His bailout vote was the true Lamar. Wamp I have voted for Congressman ever since he first ran. The bailout vote was the last straw for me with him. Thankfully the ballot was full of Independents. Only GOP left to vote for was state Rep.

[jwalsh07]

I should move to Tennessee. I’d like to live somewhere for a few years where my wife and I are not the only McCain supporters holding a sign in a sea of the Leaders followers.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Most anywhere East of Nashville is pretty solidly conservative in custom and practice (and to be fair most between Memphis and the capitol). There’s a definite mindset for getting along on one’s abilities over government assistance. There’s also an undercurrent of community support that is gone from much of America. I’m constantly surprised at the concern Tennesseans have for their fellow citizens in need when most New Yorkers wouldn’t bother to spit on you.

We’ve not had any of that Kool-aid crap cropping up except around Memphis and some universities. Come on down - we’re still adamantly against a state income tax, definitely anti-union and still have prayers before most civil meetings.

[JohnMac]

This is good news for Tennessee. BUT will some of you conservatives from blue states PLEASE move to the Memphis area?

[fieldmarshaldj]

According to Dave Leip, McCain carried an astonishing 89 (!) of 95 counties (and just about duplicated Reagan's 1984 performance overall). You'd have to go back to Nixon in 1972 when the Republican won more (he carried 90 counties, losing just 5 rural counties, 2 of whom were the same ones that went against McCain this time, that being Jackson and Houston).

Our county, of course, has gone moonbat by a country mile. McCain lost 39-60% (worse in Shelby/Memphis where it was 36-64%). Definitely not the Nashville I grew up in anymore, but Tennessee is now unquestionably a fairly solid Blue Republican state. Too bad so much of the rest of the country went Commie RED moonbat.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Forgot to ping you to the previous post.

[wardaddy]

nothingn personal but it’s the northern influx in Davidson

and the rise of the homegrwon meterosexual

and increased academia sphere maybe

anyhow....I am very proud of TN overall

outstanding

i still bet whites in Mississippi voted a highr percentage than anywhere for Mccain like usual

Utah fell oddly...did you see that?

[Tennessee Nana]

WOW

South and East of Nashville/Davidson County ...

We done TN proud...

:)

What is that other liberal county east of Davidson ????

[fieldmarshaldj]

"nothingn personal but it’s the northern influx in Davidson"

Well, my Yankee parents and NYC-conceived butt voted Republican. ;-P

"i still bet whites in Mississippi voted a highr percentage than anywhere for Mccain like usual"

I'm not sure, Leip doesn't have the final figures for MS. Alabama showed considerable polarization, where some Black Belt counties went almost 9-to-1 for the False Messiah. Birmingham's Jefferson also swung against the GOP on the strength of a racist Black vote (and, yes, folks, when close to 100% voted for the same race, it was a racist vote. Whites don't vote like that anymore).

"Utah fell oddly...did you see that?"

Remember how bitter the Mormon Slick Willardbots were. I'd say a decent chunk of them voted against McCain because he refused to pick him for VP. The two counties that did go against McCain included Grand (Metrosexual Moonbat Moab) and Summit (Robert Redford's Park City), although we nearly lost Salt Lake.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Jackson isn’t a “liberal” county, per se, it’s just one of those very rural Democrat fiefdoms (and McCain only barely lost it — by only 39 votes !) that modern times have forgotten about. Both it and Houston are well off the established highways (no interstate or US highways run through them, just tiny 2-lane state routes). Jackson’s near-ghost town of Granville (the only town I’ve visited in the county) is where Albert Gore, Sr. was born a century ago (and who just as swiftly left it). I’ve never set foot in Houston County. I guarantee you most of the folks there are the hardest of the die-hard yellow dogs, who won’t vote GOP because their g-g granddaddy was a member of the Confederate Army.

As for the only other two rural counties, Haywood in West TN is majority Black, so that explains their vote. Hardeman is a bit harder to explain, but it is over 40% Black and may have both Blacks and White Yellow Dogs that voted the same way. However, both it and Haywood trended GOP from 2004. Only 3 counties in TN trended away from the GOP, that being Davidson, Shelby and Montgomery (Clarksville), although the latter still held for McCain, but dropped from 59 to 53%. I suspect it may have had to do with some Black military voting on race and also the same types of liberals in Nashville moving to Clarksville (although they do have a Republican Mayor).

[MayflowerMadam]

We hope to be residents in TN before the end of ‘09. Bible Belt is our goal after so long in So. Cal.

[Tennessee Nana]

Y’all come...

:)

[NewRomeTacitus]

Thanks always for your faultless analysis. I’m amazed so much of Tennessee pulled for McCain after Wardaddy kept telling me how many Obama signs were about. Ready for Jimmy Carter part II? The Demo’s ALWAYS self destruct because their ideas have no place in a rational universe.

Not without replacing the Constitution.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, it wouldn’t be a big surprise seeing large amounts of signs for the False Messiah in Nashville, since we’ve now become like Austin in Texas, Moonbat Central. And aside from racist voting in Memphis (Black, not White), the rest of the state took EXTREME exception to an extremist candidate (and, indeed, I would not be surprised if a quarter of TN Democrats, moreso in the rural areas, voted for McCain all the while the GOP suffered a bit of a downturn amongst Conservatives).

Tennessee once was a fairly good bellwether state, and by the blowout percentage McCain took, you’d have thought the rest of the nation would’ve sent the closeted Mohammadan packing back to Chicago, or Honolulu, or Indonesia... It’s just so sad to see the nation either so misguided, moonbat or just excited to see it utterly destroyed by the singlemost dangerous radical ever sent to the White House. Already just 2 days after the election, and the Dow Jones has dropped a thousand points. Of course, the media won’t blame him. All that damage, and he hasn’t even been sworn in, yet. I hope all the suckers get hit hardest (sadly, the good guys, like you folks, will probably get screwed worse since you have to actually work for a living).