Posted on 11/09/2016 9:17:42 PM PST by JediJones
The GOP successfully defended its majorities in most chambers, and also picked up chambers in Kentucky and Iowa, giving the party full control of those states.
Democrats went into this election controlling the governorship, Senate and House in just seven states...Now, they control just four states.
"In short, Republicans bested expectations,"
Republicans not only picked up the Kentucky House and the Iowa Senate, but unseated the top Democratic leaders in both...
The Kentucky House was the last chamber controlled by Democrats in the South.
Their gains in Iowa and Kentucky mean the GOP has won the trifecta in those states, controlling the governorship and both legislative chambers...next year Republicans will control all the political branches of state government in more than half the states.
That number now includes Missouri and New Hampshire, where the GOP defended its legislative majorities and won the governorships.
Democrats, by contrast, now have total control of just California, Hawaii, Oregon and Rhode Island.
Republicans pulled off ties in the state senates in both Connecticut and Delaware, which were formerly Democratic trifecta states. The victory by GOP Lt. Gov. Phil Scott in the Vermont governor's race puts a Republican check on Democratic power...
On paper, Democrats now control Washington state...
Republicans successfully defended their narrow majorities in other chambers they won in 2014, including the Colorado, New Hampshire and West Virginia senates.
What's more, Republicans maintained legislative supermajorities in Indiana and North Carolina...
In Nevada, Democrats succeeded in erasing GOP majorities in both chambers...
Democrats also picked up 13 seats in the Kansas House..."A red part of the country was moving back toward the center,"...
One oddity: Democrats picked up the sole seat held by a Republican in the Hawaii Senate. They will enjoy not just control but unanimity in that chamber.
(Excerpt) Read more at governing.com ...
Now, they need to crack down on vote fraud, etc. In those states. Voter ID required for all elections.
Ugh, Nevada has probably gone blue for the foreseeable future.
All those idiots from other states came in and brought their liberal disease with them.
Don’t know what it will take to get back our once libertarian/conservative state.
The text of the story is different too. Looks like this Governing site is better for facts than the MSM sources. It’s actually written in a non-biased way. The information is more complete as well.
Unfortunately there’s so many Dems in California, they can export them all over the place and flip states to blue long before they have to worry about theirs flipping red.
And Trump needs to go full smash-mouth Obama on this Supreme court.
Last time I checked, the congress decides the number of justices on that court....
It’s 4-4 today, but it could be 15-4 tomorrow, if congress were to decide that to be a better number of justices....
If Ruth kicks the bucket with her “dissent” collar on, it could be 16-3....
Get it?
Weak-kneed republicans who were wringing their hands over Trump’s possible negative effect on down ballot races look like the fools that they are.
It turns out that he had longer coat-tails than McCain or Romney and helped save the US Senate and Congress as well as increase republican dominance at the state level.
I’m thrilled with the outcome of the election. But, it was close in too many states. The handwriting is on the wall. Eventually they will outnumber us.
As ole granny used to say, “Sonny, throw some yeast in the Mississippi River, the South shall rise again”.
Kansas was somewhat of a surprise but given the fact that fascist Sebelius was governor there, nothing from the Left would surprise me.
Nevada: Bought and owned by Harry Reid. When he dies and his hidden machine is dismantled, it will be a different story.
Hawaii: A longtime target of the Communists, Marxists and progressives, since the mid-1930’s (as in Frank Marshall Davis and Obama; Ewart Guinier; and the CPUSA’s “Honolulu Record” for which Marshall wrote columns). See: Prof. Paul Kengor, “DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”, 2010, ISI Books, and the Sen. Judiciary Comm, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, hearings Parts 40-41A on Hawaii in “Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States”, Dec. 3-6, 1956.
Hawaii was specifically targeted by KGB asset harry Bridges, a member of the Communist Party of Australia, of the Central Committee of the CPUSA, and head of the CPUSA-dominated International Longshoremen Workers’ Union (ILWU) who controlled the lifeline of supplies to that island.
Some of the old red ties were still there until the retirement of Representative, then Governor Abercrombie only a few years ago.
However, second and third generation “socialists” and “progressives” have made great inroads into the control of the Island’s Democrat Party, and they now control the state legislature.
Our work has not yet been finished in terms of rooting out the Marxists/socialists/progressives in American national, state (Calif, Wash., Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, NY, and much of New ) governments where they control just about everything.
A very useful book on a “Who’sWwho” of leftists in the federal government is Trevor Loudon’s “The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists, and Progressives in the U.S. Congress”, 2015, at www.PacificFreedom Foundation.org.
We must be informed about who our internal enemies are in order to counter them. They are smart. We must be smarter.
First order of business in NH is get rid of same day registrattion. Reform kept getting shot down by RAT governors.
Remember all the experts saying how Trump was so awful he’d destroy the down-ballot Republican candidates’ chances?
There is another failed prediction by the experts. ;-)
Bump for later
That’s interesting, I had no idea of why Hawaii was so screwed up.
Just a snapshot of what the US Senate prospects will look like in 2 years. Time to start thinking long ball now folks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2018
Democrats are expected to target the Senate seats in Nevada and Arizona.[2] Republicans are expected to target Democratic-held seats in Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia, all of which voted for Mitt Romney in the 2012 election.[3] Republicans could also target seats in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, and possibly New Jersey.[2] Other races may also become competitive.
State 2014 PVI Incumbent 2012 result
Arizona R+7 Jeff Flake (R) 49% R
Florida R+2 Bill Nelson (D) 55% D
Indiana R+5 Joe Donnelly (D) 50% D
Missouri R+5 Claire McCaskill (D) 55% D
Montana R+7 Jon Tester (D) 49% D
Nevada D+2 Dean Heller (R) 46% R
New Jersey D+6 Bob Menendez (D) 59% D
North Dakota R+10 Heidi Heitkamp (D) 50% D
Ohio R+1 Sherrod Brown (D) 51% D
Pennsylvania D+1 Bob Casey (D) 54% D
Virginia Even Tim Kaine (D) 53% D
West Virginia R+13 Joe Manchin (D) 61% D
Wisconsin D+2 Tammy Baldwin (D) 51% D
I predict Nevada will flip Bigly in 18.
Yeah, that’s part of it, but so too is decades of Democrat-importing mass immigration. As Nevada has gotten less white and more Hispanic, GOP prospects at the Presidential level in the state have worsened. That will continue.
It’d be interesting to see how the white vote in the state broke though. In 2010 the hapless Sharon Angle’s loss was largely and falsely attributed to doing so poorly with Hispanics. But it was really her poor showing with whites that sunk her, as Governor Sandoval cruised to reelection by winning a significantly higher share of whites. So I wonder how Trump and Heck did with whites. Did they underpierform with whites or were they truly swamped by Hispanics? If the former, then it offers some hope for doing better next time. If the latter then we should get used to it.
How the heck did we take the VT race?? Any Green Mountain freepers able to enlighten us flatlanders? Ground game turned out the cows? Trump was viewed as the Big Cheese?
Folks everywhere in the entire US are sick and tired of the Globalist a-holes.
Hope so.
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