Posted on 11/05/2015 2:25:45 AM PST by Libloather
Voters in Virginia, Texas, Kentucky, Ohio and even California poured cold water Tuesday night on the idea the country has taken a sharp turn to the left, rejecting LGBT protections in Houston, sacking a pro-sanctuary cities sheriff in San Francisco and nixing legal pot in Ohio.
Democrats took hits in the off-year election everywhere - from Virginia, where Gov. Terry McAuliffe fell short in an effort to wrest control of the state Senate from Republicans, to Kentucky, where incumbent state Auditor Adam Edelen, considered a potential challenger next year to GOP Sen. Rand Paul, stumbled at the ballot box.
Kentucky Democrats were already stung after state Attorney Gen. Jack Conway, who'd been leading in the polls, lost the governor's race handily by almost 8 percentage points to tea party favorite Matt Bevin, a GOP businessman who'd unsuccessfully mounted a primary challenge to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last year.
Democratic Governors Association Executive Director Elisabeth Pearson blamed the loss on the energy in the Republican Party created in part by Donald Trump.
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Sharing economy? Does that mean Pelosi has to give up a major portion of her wealth?
I’d caution anyone against reading too much into this year’s elections. This is an off-year election cycle and voter turnout is notoriously low in years like this.
Computerized voter fraud was not used this cycle so as to loll the public into a false sense of justice. You can fully expect it to be cranked up for the 2016 elections, though.
Yep.... agree. 11% of eligible voters was average turnout in my area.....
Don’t know what the turnout was in my area, but when I went to vote, there were more staffers there than voters.
Of course, around here, since this is a heavily Democrat region and most of the candidates were unopposed, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Under those circumstances, a large chunk of the voting public figures, why bother?
The new talking point is that these were merely ‘local’ elections.
“Left Takes a Beating in Tuesday Elections”
Yet, as always, the Right gains NOTHING.
I’d caution anyone into thinking serving Republicans act like campaigning Republicans.
That wasn’t the case where I live, in Western PA.
The Democrats swept all the judicial elections here in Allegheny County. Every single one.
Not hard to understand. Folks who vote for a living only work every four years.
Saving the dead vote for next November.
——where Gov. Terry McAuliffe fell short ——
that is the best news in the piece
McAweful will not be able to build a successful platform in Richmond from which he can spring to the WhiteHouse
It would be more accurate to say that Democrats took a beating. There are plenty of leftists in the Republican party.
In the 2010 wave election, Trump was still a Democrat. In the 2014 wave election, Trump was pretending to be a Republican. The Tea Party had plenty of energy in those elections too.
Understand..... I’m in the Panhandle of Texas ....same here but heavy republican conservatives versus socialist rats.
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