Millions of voters went out last night not and voted for sanity.

Have to say I am stunned that it looks like Reid and Murkowski are still around. I guess the people in Nevada and Alaska can’t surf.

Oh, and I can’t wait to see how Mitch handles his prodigy from Alaska.

oh sure we can glare at pelosi’s head on the wall, but would’ve looked better as a set, with Reid beside her. Boxer would’ve rounded it out nicely. Really wanted Angle, O’Donnell and Djou to win. Still happy though. Congrats to Desjarlais in my district who trounced Lincoln Davis.

Does anyone know whose remaining on the energy commission that Murky is on? Maybe a new batch will vote her off.

War and Bush fatigue, combined with Republicans getting too comfortable with Washington while in power, soured our center-right nation on Republican governance. Beginning with 2006, the voters gave the Democrats a shot, as the only other game in town.

It was a failed experiment. America never bargained for this size federal government – most thought it far too big before Obama’s expansion projects.

So we have another chance. The only ones who can screw it up are our own. The Democrats aren’t dead by any means, but they can only win if we mess it up, at least in the near future.

I don’t see it in Massachusetts, yet again. What’s the point of me voting in Massachusetts, when the results are, almost always, the Democrats win “big time”, yet again, throughout Massachusetts? Why have a Massachusetts GOP, when they, still, can’t become a decent opponent to the ongoing Democratic Political Machine? I’m beyond fed up with this ongoing losing streak of the Massachusetts GOP! More than sixty years of a GOP losing streak for most political races. Many Massachusetts people and many Massachusetts businesses will be hurt, because of what happened in Massachusetts, on November 2. The political problems never end in Massachusetts, and I’m beyond sick of this! I would move out, if I could. I’m stuck here! I feel so hopeless!

Last night I was frustrated, seeing lots of democrats winning, but I must not have been looking in the right places. WOW! This is great for North Carolina…

Tomorrow, I guess it’s back to work!

I was checking out the results here in Indiana last night and they were IMPRESSIVE. In any race where the Dem was in the lead, the Republican was close behind. I think the only one entirely undisputed in favor of the Ds was Andre Carson’s district. I’m not sure, but I think his opponent was also black, and that would have been an epic win for that district! But they reelected Carson because they *always* reelect Carson, just because he’s Julia Carson’s grandson, I guess.

Can’t fix stupid. But, apparently, you CAN vote it out! Really truly! Because Baron Hill got his backside handed to him oh so solidly… And in my district, the R won by 70% when I looked at the results before bed last night. This morning, a local news website is saying 69%, but it’s not as if one percentage point made a big difference to the results. They had him listed as the winner around 8:30 last night, since the polls closed at 6.

Sure, some Dems kept their seats nationwide, but ohhh, don’t retribution feel good? Would’ve liked to see Reid go down like a punk, though. Ah well.

I will now proceed to smile a lot for the next couple hours before focusing on the months between now and the day all the new guys show up to work. If only they could go in today, eh?

The Dems are gonna be scrambling for explanations. This will be good.

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.

By the time we finish our morning coffee we should be done celebrating. The fact is that we need to really improve our ground game if we want to take the White House in 2012. In my state (NJ) our house pick-up, Runyan, won by about 6k. Given the make-up of his district he is going to have a difficult time holding on in 2012 with the increased Dem turnout when BHO is on the ticket. The RNC needs to get its act together and quickly. Overall quite happy though. Ohio and PA were huge for 2012.

   My take on this election is kind of a mixed bag.  Like my dad, I’m a bit disappointed in Delaware.  Too many soccer moms with cozy banking industry jobs, union organizers with happy political ties and welfare brats with no work ethic living (or shacking up) in New Castle County, not enough small business owners, working Americans and responsible parents outside the other two counties to make much of a difference.  57-41 against us.

   There’s a lot of work to do.  The entitlement mentality isn’t going to help us here in this Blue State.  I’ve actually considered moving out of town if the opportunity presents itself.

   However, I’m not giving up on the Republican brand yet.  We made gains.  Delaware has a governor’s race coming up next time that’ll determine who seats whom in the party leadership.  Obama, his administration staff, and the Democrats still in control of the Senate could screw things up enough to make even their traditional supporters finally have to cut them off in ’12.  The tsunami is only a presage for a flood.

   For my part, I’ll be keeping ties on what’s going on in the Republican party in Delaware.  I’ve got enough time in this world to get to it, if I’m not hired by someone in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or North Carolina.  The battle is only beginning!

The dropping of the ball by Cornyn and McConnell towards Alaska is an indication that they still don’t get it. Cutting the deal/caving towards a threat by Murkowski to caucus/not caucus with the GOP handicapped Miller greatly.
I’m also suspicious of the results in Nevada. What are they thinking? Unemployment at 14%, your Senator has approval ratings as low as the President and his healthcare bill, and yet their get out the vote effort surpassed the GOP in droves. I’ll always believe there were dirty dealings to get Reid re-elected, but the GOP should have been better prepared for this race.

The dropping of the ball by Cornyn and McConnell towards Alaska is an indication that they still don’t get it. Cutting the deal/caving towards a threat by Murkowski to caucus/not caucus with the GOP handicapped Miller greatly.
I’m also suspicious of the results in Nevada. What are they thinking? Unemployment at 14%, your Senator has approval ratings as low as the President and his healthcare bill, and yet their get out the vote effort surpassed the GOP in droves. I’ll always believe there were dirty dealings to get Reid re-elected, but the GOP should have been better prepared for this race.

of the House races that are still pending???

Governor, Senator, and numerous entrenched democrat congressman replaced by principled conservative. Then the General Assembly went Republican to join the Republican Senate. Still have many more registered Democrats, but hard to call it a Blue State with so many Republicans in leadership positions.

Here, we particularly relished getting rid of Kanjorski, as well as pseudo-conservative, Pelosi-and-Obamacare-supporting Carney.

Tsunami may have missed Massachusetts, but there was a wave that put Republicans much higher than expected in the Gov race and the various House races.

Alaska and Nevada are big disappointments, but overall this was a great election. Happy to see principled people like Toomey and Paul win. Happy to see anomalies like Pomeroy gone. Happy to see unprincipled hacks like Specter gone. Happy to see disgraces like Grayson, Etheridge and Hare gone. And as a strong first amendment defender, I am happy to see Feingold gone.

The D’s victories in CA-GOV and NY-GOV will likely be of little long-term benefit to them: they will preside over these states’ continuing downward spiral.

Obamacare will likely remain a gift that keeps giving: I expect lots of D’s to retire in the next two years. Between that, reapportioning and redistricting, 2012 could also be a very good year for us.

I wish I could have confidence in our congressional leadership not to drop the ball though.

In ME, the GOP wins controls the ME Legislature (the ME House just *barely*…), and looks likely to pick up the Governorship too.

So the question is – can a Republican leaning House seat be designed in ME?! Are there enough “Republican bastions” in ME to actually put together a House seat?

If there are, now’s the time to do it – we likely won’t get another shot to create a House seat like this in ME for a long time!

but there are obviously some very stubborn and deep, deep, DEEP blue states. I read the above comment about MA. The same can said of MD. What is it with this state? Mikulski again????? The GOP needs to take a look at these 2 states (along with others) and come up with a game plan to put some red in them. The Tea Party has done it’s work. We need more ammo. Other than that…a great night. And, Redstate…thank you for your work. You’re fantastic.

After 136 year of Dems robbing us blind, maybe we can get off the bottom of every good list and off the top of every bad one.

And I mean conservatives won just about everything down heah! Governor, U.S. Senator, judgeships, sherriffs — even coroners.

Sweet.

I don’t know who originally coined that phrase but I’ll be particularly interested to watch two diverging paths. On the first, we have one of the few currently solvent states, Indiana, which handed both houses of the state legislature to the Republicans for the first time in more than 25 years (early to mid-80s anyway). On the other path, you have terminal basket case California which just handed the car keys to Governor Moonbeam for the second time. Really, to be honest, I feel sorry for them even though they did it to themselves.

By my once former great state. Up and down the line, we succumbed to the left and are letting them run government, top to bottom. Not only could we not defeat an utterly defeatable Boxer, but we elected moonbeam again. On top of that, we couldn’t defeat our idiotic global warming law AB32.

uggh, makes me want to move to Texas.

. . . . a free state! What a turn around in the State Assembly and Senate for us! And Russ Feingold is gone, gone, gone. A new Republcan govenor and US Representative to boot! I went to bed a happy man and woke up giddy as a school boy after his first kiss. We jusf might be able to switch from being one of the most taxed states in the Union to one with more resonable taxes. And just maybe we will also loose our status as one of only two states that has no form of concealed carry. I just might go and buy a gun just to celebrate!

It looks like both may go down.

Very disappointed in the Senate results. Thrilled about everything else.

After all dem wins, including Deval Patrick in MA I have to leave this state. I can’t take it anymore!!!!!!

too close to call but the Rep challenger Andy Vidak is up 700 over Jim Costa. This would be a huge win for the Valley!!! Costa is a so-called blue dog who has been in politics for 30 years.

Yes, there may be only 18 states gaining or losing House seats, but all states with more than one House seat will be redistricting. That’ll make a big difference in places like IN-08 and possibly ME.

The polling was much more favorable for Rs than the actual turnout. Could it be that the constant news about the R wasve spurred democrats to go out and vote?

Did we pick bad candidates? (other than the widely panned O’Donnell, who I as rooting for)?

Fiorina looked awesome, but didn’t seem to connect with CA voters.

I am most depressed about Ken Buck, but am still holding some hope for Di Rossi.

Republicans need to get more organized for these state races (at least it seems that way to me). Somehow we are missing something.

You’re right about the state legislatures, it’s really amazing to think that New Hampshire and Wisconsin flipped GOP.

Massachusetts, of course, is the liberal Plymouth Rock where the rope that stretches all the way to California is tied on the East Coast. No tsunami here. The people of MA didn’t vote to lower their sales taxes when given the chance to do so, except on alcohol if the booze is already subject to excise taxes.

R’s hold the state House and Senate (by huge numbers), and Rick Scott (R) squeaked out a win for Governor. FL is set to gain at least one more seat in redistricting…and yet:

Soros-funded state constitutional amendments #5 and #6 passed by 62%: “Standards for legislature to follow in legislative redistricting” and “Standards for legislature to follow in congressional redistricting”. However, the “standards” are nebulous (by design) and open to giant court challeges — plus, Florida is required by the federal Voting Rights Act to create a certain number of “majority-minority” (read: democratic) districts. It’s full employment for lawyers, and it’s guaranteed that judges — either federal or state, or both — will be drawing our districts. NOT the Republican legislature and governor.

Mark Kirk (R) wins, and will be seated to complete the remainder of Obama’s term. (no more Sen. Burris, and Giannouias the crook goes away..)

Governor is another story – Quinn (D) and Brady (R) are within 10,000 votes. Sounds like a big gap, but the Libertarian drew over 130,000 votes, and the Green broke 90,000. I expect this will go to a recount, and be stolen in Chicago since Cook County reported big numbers early, but still haven’t reached 100%….

This one was Brady’s to lose .. and he ran a decent but not great campaign. He seemed out of touch with the voters he most needed – the suburban “collar counties” .. they went for Brady, but not by enough of a margin to matter.

The “conventional wisdom” got this one backwards – Kirk’s coattails seem longer than Brady’s at this point – Kirk won all but two counties (Cook, i.e. Chicago, and Alexander) while Brady lost in four – Cook, Alexander, Jackson, and St. Clair. Other than Cook, these were all southern Illinois near the Missouri border.

The state house (Illinois General Assembly) was another mixed bag, but Repubs won overall. Repubs won 9 races for the Illinois Senate, Dems won 7 – Repubs won 44 races for the Illinois House, Dems won 27. (data from Chicago Tribune)

This appears to mean a Republican lower house in Illinois – it’s not clear on the Senate side, since Illinois State Senators have a very strange cycle. It’s also not clear whether this will be enough to get the state out of its’ current deep rut.

Mew

for keeping me informed about the candidates and the issues. I tried to donate a little to every money bomb you suggested. This morning I feel like a proud mother to every candidate who won, while hurting for those who didn’t.

Just for today, it’s appropriate to feel the proverbial Chris Matthews thrill up the leg, but we cannot and must not ever become complacent again. We should go back to work tomorrow. Keep contacting your representatives and let them know we expect results, not compromise, or they will feel the same sting of rejection we delivered to many across our country yesterday.

I am particularly proud of 2 results. Alabama elected a Republican majority to the state house for the first time in 136 years and swept all major positions, My hometown in the historically Democratic TN 4th District helped boot out Lincoln Davis who was obviously bitter last night This seat was at one time held by Al Gore, Sr. and then junior until they redistricted him to another area. If only we could redistrict him out of the country along with a few others, but at least they’re now out of office.

because that slug, Alan Grayson, is outta here. Maybe he’ll move to NY to be closer to his MSNBC pals? Cheers for Scott, Rubio, Webster, Adams and Col. West too. Unfortunately, as CWilson mentions above, the libtard redistricting amendments went through. As did an extra tax for Orlando area schools. Boneheads!

It means ‘ and with your spirit’ in that funny language they use in my church. Many thanks for a great opportunity to do a little bit to help out something I care about, my freedom. And yours to.

My sister and I start our plan today to leave California. Our plan? Set goals, achieve goals. Simple.

Plano, Texas is our goal.

Props that passed – the “simple majority” proposition they sold by promising people that, for every day the budget didn’t pass, legislators would lose their pay. Big whoop – now a simple majority taxes us deeper. However, the prop to allow businesses to determine how to allocate write-offs for multi-state companies did pass. Businesses can cling to that for a while. We also won the redistricting commission prop. Legislators can’t draw their own boundary lines anymore. Another big win – they can’t call new taxes “fees” – and any changes in existing “fees” will automatically trigger an assessment of its status as a fee.

Props that failed – the “hold off on cap and trade until our economy springs back” died last night. Screws our businesses HARD, and our jobless rate will now soar still higher. However, the “parks and rec” tax (revived car tax in disguise) was defeated, so we can all go back to paying for what we actually want in terms of our recreational activites (except pot – that got stomped). The prop that allows government to rape the transportation and infrastructure funds passed. Hello bad roads and more union payoffs.

So sorry that OC over-ruled the will of the rest of the state and put Babs Ma’am back in her seat. You should see the county-by-county vote tally on Carly. She came very close.

How *anybody* could vote for Moonbeam is beyond me. We’ll chalk it up to the Peter Principle.

Analysis: We are putting in the very least amount of $$$ needed to spruce up the house, selling it, and moving our businesses to a state with no income tax and at least a center-right state legislation. Detroit is California’s future. We see the writing on the wall and we are acting before it is too late.