Before Election Day, RCP had 49 seats for the Dems in the US Senate.
Linda McMahon (R) (who was a tossup in CT) has lost. So has Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
The best a President Romney can get now is 50/50.
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I always thought the R’s would need at least 53-54 seats in order to overcome the inevitable wolves in Repulican clothing.
Agreed totally
Sad, Alexandria, Roanoke and Hampton Pull it out for Dem ‘Tom’ Kaine senate Virginia.
The ‘machine’ waited for all of the state of Virginia to report and then went to work
They were allowing the voting in Roanoke to 10:30 pm after the polls closed at 7pm because ” they were in line at 7pm”
In line my ass! It was stolen in Virginia, there I said it. Non educated electorat, EBT crowd rolled in late 4pm and on and took it from the workers that voted earlier.
Obo said ” voted for action, best is yet to come” I bet, he is going to skew the supreme court, FED, and the gloves come off. What happened to the USA? I think we were raped.
The ‘hispanic’ voters from mexico carried the day.
I am going to start listening to sports radio, Beck don’t know crap .
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I was a little surprised by West’s loss in Florida and Bachmann’s win in Minnesota. George “Macaca” Allen – along with “The Godliness of Rape” twins, Akin and Mourdock, are symptoms of the disease. The republican party needs to find non-idiots who are fiscal conservatives. They need to stop trotting out losers like Linda McMahon and Mittens to be the standard bearers. Platform planks that revolve around life beginning at conception feed the narrative that the republican party is the party of yesteryear. Women will kill babies as they see fit. It’s been the law of the land for almost as long as I’ve been alive. Candidates threaten that God-given right at their own peril.
Mittens the Severe Conservative was a loser from Jump Street. The field was full of losers. Santorum could not figure out when to shut up. Bachmann, a smart woman, was not above saying idiotic things. Perry, Cain, the list goes on and on.
The litmus test as I see it:
Who backed Romney during the primaries? If they ran as Tea Party Darlings (TPD) in 2010, they need to be challenged during their next primary (Nikki Haley, this definitely means you) by someone who will not rubber stamp the moderate republican nominee (Dole/McCain/Romney) in order to get ahead in DC. To put it simply, politics as usual doesn’t work. Sarah Palin campaigning for McCain during his recent re-election should have been the end of her as a TPD.
I’m sure I’m oversimplifying this. I’m sure I’m looking at this in simple black and white terms. I was in a discussion with some conservative friends about a year ago. I stated that the Tea Party had seemingly disappeared. I opined that the movement (as Art has frequently pointed out) seemed to be directionless and possibly has been co-opted (hello, Freedom Works). They disagreed, saying that the Tea Party members voted in 2010 and returned to their fields and offices and homes…and there they would stay until called upon to filter out the conservative candidate for the republican party. I saw no point in arguing, but my concerns seem to have been borne out.
Oh, and Dick Morris should be discredited and only interviewed as a source of amusement, like playing pachinko in a friend’s rec room.
My glib first impression (assuming that the vote counts were close to real) is that women suddenly got cold feet about Republicans. The “rape is God’s will” guys didn’t help. I also suspect Chris Christy did enormous damage with his sudden embrace of Obama. Instead of a strong leader, they saw a scared man looking for a Federal handout.
The only positive thing is the race wasn’t close. Obamacare is here to stay. I don’t want it, but at least it ends the uncertainty. In about two years, all private health insurance will implode and we can revisit ideas like allowing early retirees to “buy into” Medicare. Obamacare was designed to fail.
Private health insurance is already gone for the John Gaults of the world. It disappeared for me (53 YO white self-employed engineer) three months after Obamacare was passed. Been without for ~3 years now. Government insurance not available. Wrong age, wrong gender, wrong ancestry, needs testing, etc. I have yet to meet a self-sufficient middle-aged business owner in SC/GA/AL who’s not in the same situation. This is another bombshell story the media conveniently ignored…
Humana just turned me down. The web site did it automatically – no human involved. Part of the reason I decided I would move to Chicago is I’ve reached the point where I won’t be a slave to the health insurance/care industry. Since leaving my “real” job in 2002, I figure I’ve paid about $100k in health insurance (not including what I paid into Medicare), and consumed less than 15% of that. I’m willing cross the line and become a health care criminal – refusing to buy health insurance and paying my own bills myself. I’m not on any medications, haven’t incurred any health care expenses in the last 3 years, but I’m not insurable. If I catch HIV, the world is my oyster. Maybe I can convince a government worker I have Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Humana probably did you a favor. You’ll do just fine.
Women got turned off by the Rape Twins, which re-energized the War on Women narrative that should never have left the station. It hit all the stops on time thanks to Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santorum. Also, Hurricane Sandy burnished Obama’s image as a hands-on decision maker. Finally, and most obviously, it was Romney. The businessman had no specific economic plan, even when challenged by Obama on the lack one. Picking Ryan over Rubio was foolish. Running his mouth about the 47% gave credibility to the “out of touch plutocrat” narrative that was part of the successful class warfare bullshtein.
A good point about the uncertainty of Obamacare now being taken off the table. Benghazi is fading fast, since there is no political gain in shining a light on it. Those things are in the past. 2016 is ahead of us. Let’s handicap. Rubio-Paul? The former voted for the NDAA and the latter has discredited himself among the libertarian wing/TPDs for backing Romney.
Boortz is right, and he’s saying the same thing that we’ve been saying on this blog. As long as the republicans focus on gays, abortion, and illegals, they will be destined to lose all but some state and local elections. Seeya, Reince.
Well, there was one bright spot that came out of this election, Tennessee finally achieved a super majority of R’s after nearly a century of D oppression.
If the Nullification effort gains traction and the Sheriffs and National Guard step up they could create an island in a sea of insanity.
I believe Indiana also has a supermajority now as well. This election is making me recall the prediction by Igor Panarin that the US would split into six units (I think I’ve brought this up before on this site). You mention an island in a sea of insanity. How many potential islands are out there? With Brown’s defeat, there is now only one republican on the federal stage in New England. The whispers of Texan secession are increasing. The Balkanization of America is well underway. Find your island before the window closes.
Georgia local news commentators are also talking Republican “super-majority”.
…TN/GA/SC/AL/MS/LA/TX…
Does that map look historically familiar to anyone? Just subtract cotton and slaves and fast-forward 150 years. The more things change, the more they really stay the same. 🙂
I still hope to be able to pay off my revolving debt by the end of March 2013 because on or around spring equinox 2013 something big is coming.
Neal Bortz rendered his analysis today. Basically it can be summed up as: Drop the social issues, completely.
Neil is right. Tax the gays. Its just that religion gets in the way.
Insurance industry has a license to steal. Cheap energy’s days are numbered. Your electric bill is getting ready to go to the moon, Alice,
thanks Obo
parrott
My spies tell me that my client is going to approach me about permanent employment. I’ve been extremely visible in the last week during a couple of emergencies (ones I didn’t create!). They knew very little about me and are still wondering how I landed here.
That would resolve the health insurance issue for the coming year. If some corporate makeover ends up RIFing me (not likely), I would have COBRA for 18 months that gets me to 2014 and full blown Obamacare and the creation of the insurance pools.
I “solo’ed” tonight, fielding the support problems by myself with the regular 2nd shift guy just watching in case I did something stupid or got stuck. Sunday night I do it for real by myself… Although this isn’t actually my long term job function. It’s like the management trainee that works on the loading dock for a few weeks to learn how things work in the real world. Before I can figure out how to fix the problems, I have to experience them.
Excellent news!!! Hope all goes well for you and it does appear you are “up” to the job.