Posted on 11/04/2014 11:45:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama's home state of Illinois elected a Republican governor on Tuesday night. Massachusetts will have its first Republican governor since Mitt Romney.
Stunning Republican victories came in reliably Democratic states, including those won overwhelmingly by Obama in 2012. Illinois ousted Democrat Pat Quinn in favor of Republican Bruce Rauner, while Maryland voters opted for Republican Larry Hogan over Democrat Anthony Brown. Republican Charlie Baker won a Massachusetts match-up against Martha Coakley, the state attorney general who lost a special Senate election to Scott Brown in 2010.
Republicans also continued their dominance of governors' mansions when a number of GOP leaders fought off stiff challenges from Democrats.
Republican Rick Scott defeated Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist in a very tight and hotly contested race.
Wisconsin's Scott Walker and Georgia's Nathan Deal both narrowly won re-election in the face of well-financed Democratic challenges, according to CNN projections. Ohio's John Kasich, Iowa's Terry Branstad and New Mexico's Susana Martinez also dispatched weaker Democratic challengers. And bombastic Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage survived a stiff challenge from Rep. Michael Michaud to win a second term.
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Did Obama shut us down? This is the first thread in nearly an hour.
Scott Walker reelected.
Wonderful to be able to type those words.
Pretty big news, all things considered.
I’ve been wondering what happened too...
This is one that Nate Silver did not see coming.
And FL.
RE: Scott Walker reelected.
Wonderful to be able to type those words.
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Rick Scott crushes Charlie Cris in Florida.
Here’s the CNN map that shows how we have the West, the Panhandle South and much of the MIdwest.
http://www.cnn.com/election/2014/results/race/governor?hpt=hp_inthenews
The House is a blanket of Republican wins, except for some wormholes of Dems along the West coast, in southern TX, New England, MN, parts of AL and MS, GA, SC and FL, and of course DC.
http://www.cnn.com/election/2014/results/race/house?hpt=hp_inthenews
I've dropped through a time warp into a better alternate world...
Well, Marxistchusetts is a hollow victory. An extreme Marxist Demonicrat actually won. It’s all a word game in Marxistchusetts.
And MD and IL were won by RINOs.
I’d like to see the tally of the all races, where it was a pick-up for us.
For the senate it was Montana, South Dakota, Arkansas, West Virginia and North Carolina.
And Colorado.
Beauprez ran well behind Gardner. Race is still too close to call.
He’s up by 109 votes
I’m looking at CNN’s House map and pink shows party change. Large swaths of west TX went to the GOP, upstate NY, the tip Of FL, parts of IO, GA & WV.
Hickenlooper ran better with voters than Udall did. Looks like a lot of Gardner voters crossed over to vote for Hickenlooper.
I'll take the 'R' over the 'D'.
CNN posted that Gardner has 50% whole Beauprez is only at 45%. If so another pick-up. Will this be an anti-Obama bellwether now?
“An extreme Marxist Demonicrat actually won.”
I don’t know if I’d go that far, but I just couldn’t, in good conscience, bring myself to put a check mark next to his name.
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