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From coast to coast, conservatives score huge victories in off-year elections
The Washington Post ^ | Novermber 4, 2015 | James Hohmann

Posted on 11/04/2015 8:24:22 AM PST by fifedom

Just like the midterms one year ago, it was another awful night for Democrats. Republican Matt Bevin won a big upset in the Kentucky governors race. Democrats failed to pick up Virginias state Senate. Houstons Equal Rights Ordinance, designed to protect the rights of gay citizens and others, failed by a wide margin. Ohio rejected marijuana legalization by a two-to-one margin. Even in San Francisco, the sheriff who steadfastly defended the citys sanctuary city policy went down.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; bevin; elections; mcauliffe; trumpcoattails
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To: HarleyLady27

American Voters are waking up and they are not happy!!!

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Conservatives have been doing well for years at the local and state level. It’s the creeps in the GOP at the national level who are making sure we get nothing in exchange for our votes.


61 posted on 11/04/2015 9:26:04 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Republicans have to win in 2016.

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We gave them both houses of Congress, yet the crooks like McConnell and Boehner made sure it was for nothing.


62 posted on 11/04/2015 9:27:47 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Large numbers of gubmint employees in VA. They would tend to vote for big government supporters in the demonratic party.
That wouldn't mean they are all supporting liberal policies but protecting their own pockets. But in some cases with the left going so far off into the depths of outright evil...even they may find themselves voting the other way.

And we should welcome any awakening that is bestowed upon them. That said; some people just ain't worth reaching out to. We will leave them to BLM and Islamonazis and let them stew in their own juices.

JMO

63 posted on 11/04/2015 9:34:32 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: SamuraiScot
My emotionalism? lol.

The point is that the person I was responding to is jumping up and down saying "See? See? Voting works and all you people who didn't vote for Romney suck!" But we elected a bunch of so-called conservatives in 2012 and not only did nothing conservative happen, but the leftward march continued unabated, even accelerated. Claiming that a mere election win by Republicans is, by itself, evidence of victory for conservatism is beyond foolish at this point. I'm not saying to reserve celebration in order to protect your emotional state (lol!!), I'm advising people to reserve their celebration because, until we see conservative action from the newly elected, we haven't accomplished ANYTHING, and therefore should not be relaxing and patting ourselves on the back.
64 posted on 11/04/2015 10:02:15 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: SamuraiScot; fr_freak

Wear your party hats and bang your drum loudly.


65 posted on 11/04/2015 10:15:58 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: fifedom; All

“How long before the nay-sayers on this website claim that this does not matter and that the voters should have stayed at home?”

Very soon. As a matter of fact Right Now! As an FR naysayer of some repute, rest assured that this election matters little in the grand scheme, and yes if you’re looking to do something useful and positive, you definitely should stay home.

The problem with voting for so-called conservatives is not whether you win the silly popularity contests, the problem is whether the people you elect will deliver anything that remotely resembles conservatism. Fortunately we have years and years of actual evidence to show that the elections are one thing, follow through quite another.


66 posted on 11/04/2015 10:17:09 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Voting is self-abuse - without the pleasure.)
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To: HarleyLady27

I’m glad they’re waking up, I just wish it could have happened long ago.


67 posted on 11/04/2015 10:19:17 AM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

As an FR naysayer of some repute, rest assured that this election matters little in the grand scheme, and yes if you’re looking to do something useful and positive, you definitely should stay home.


That sounds suspiciously like something a RAT troll would say. What is your purpose in posting cr*p like this? Does it help you or anyone else? And it is cr*p and not true. If you think things would be the same with the RATS controlling the House and Senate you are delusional.

BTW, what does your screen name mean??


68 posted on 11/04/2015 10:22:55 AM PST by fifedom
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To: fr_freak

The point is that the person I was responding to is jumping up and down saying “See? See? Voting works and all you people who didn’t vote for Romney suck!”


I said nothing about Romney—that just shows you are seeing things that are not there.


69 posted on 11/04/2015 10:25:15 AM PST by fifedom
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To: A CA Guy

He is exactly what I said he was even before the 2008 election. Ironically he did not really hide it, anyone who really paid attention to what he himself said would have come to the same conclusion that “Crazy” Alan Keyes came to.
The following comments by Keyes were uploaded to you tube about a month after Obama’s inaugaration. A lot of people who thought Keyes was crazy then probably think now that he understated the danger.


70 posted on 11/04/2015 10:31:14 AM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: fifedom

Is this like the big Republican wins and victories the R’s had in 2014?


71 posted on 11/04/2015 10:37:05 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: fr_freak; fifedom; PGR88; Moonman62; RKBA Democrat; dragnet2
until we see conservative action from the newly elected, we haven't accomplished ANYTHING

You're perfectly correct that we should not be relaxing from here on out. But above is the incorrect part, just by definition: We poured the foundation in a bunch of places. Can't do anything without that, so it is indeed an accomplishment. Workmen are standing there, getting their breath and cleaning up. It needs to be recognized and celebrated. Of course, the houses still need to be built. Good to mention that, especially with strategy notes to put on a calendar—I'd be very interested in those myself.

There is indeed a chorus of those on FR—and I'm not necessarily tarring you with this—whose main contribution is to say, "Don't get your hopes up!" and they leave it at that, other than to point out all the folks they won't be voting for on one principle or the other. Which I may agree with in particular cases. But that's not the point.

Whoever is spending a lot of energy trying to keep folks' hopes down and cussing failed candidates of the past, doesn't have a plan. We need a plan and persistent, spirited follow-up on the part of as many of us as possible, or we won't have the sweeping, long-lasting changes we need. We need more officers and fewer grousing privates. Honi soit qui mal y pense. Loosely translated: "If the shoe fits . . ."

72 posted on 11/04/2015 10:39:13 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

“KY and MS are fairly Republican these days, so no surprises there.”

I read that Bevin is only the second Republican to be elected governor in Kentucky in almost 50 years. Plus, Kentucky’s new Lt. Gov. is a conservative black woman. So, I count these two wins as somewhat surprising.


73 posted on 11/04/2015 10:49:28 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: RipSawyer

Most here at FR were calling him a major race baiting radical piece of sh!t before the elections.
I think more people at FR are readers and researchers of the news and all here knew about Barry from the start.


74 posted on 11/04/2015 10:49:32 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: eCSMaster

It appears that Michael George (Rat-Pa) was endorsed by the NRA.


75 posted on 11/04/2015 10:53:44 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: fifedom

My agenda, to the extent that there is one, is seeing conservatism and freedom in my lifetime. Voting has proven to be an incredibly crappy way to accomplish that. Conservatives continue to show up at the polls in large numbers election after election. And what do we have to show for it?

Is the budget balanced?
Is infanticide illegal?
Is the debt being reduced?
Are our borders being protected?

In the long run, the success or failure of any strategy is shown in its end results. We have ample evidence that voting for conservatism doesn’t work. Perhaps you have evidence to the contrary? Some overlooked victory? If so, please feel free to share.


76 posted on 11/04/2015 10:59:56 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Voting is self-abuse - without the pleasure.)
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To: fifedom

Not entirely.

Colorado just suffered two major country defeats for school board as the Republican party once again failed to support Republican candidates and allowed the unions and socialist school lobbies to recall three conservatives in Jefferson County and three more in Douglas county.

Along with that, the once conservative Douglas county just held outer lying areas hostage and threatened to remove fire departments if they did not agree to a major tax increase, and the voters approve that tax increase.


77 posted on 11/04/2015 11:00:38 AM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: fifedom

I think it is a victory but Pyrrhic. The turnout was low. Low always equals conservative.

For the presidential election the come out in droves and stack the deck. The electronic voting machines make the vote whatever the dims that run them want the outcome to be.

They just toy with the off cycle elections because only running for dictator matters.


78 posted on 11/04/2015 12:04:18 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: thefactor

We already have a socialist in the whitehouse.


79 posted on 11/04/2015 12:44:59 PM PST by Fernet Branca (Liberalism is for girls)
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To: fifedom
Kentucky pre-election polling further enforces my opinion that polling means nothing. This was a landslide in the opposite direction of predictions(poll-driven). Polls seem to me simply a tool to attempt to mold voters perception and with elections for the left’s candidates.

That being said, maybe the electability issue needs to be revisited in this light.

80 posted on 11/04/2015 1:07:31 PM PST by Freemeorkillme
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