2014 Midterm Election Results

[John Galt]

[The dane]

Looking at the results from yesterday's elections, I am amazed as always at how simple minded the voters are. The opposing party always seems to win in midterms, but why ? I get the basic argument of "things are bad, so we vote for the other guys", but it just does not hold up if you bother to dig even a tiny bit deeper. Did those other guys offer any new solutions ? Nope, none whatsoever.

I'm not saying this to bash Republicans, since Democrats benefited from the exact same trend under Bush, and before that Republicans under Clinton, and on and on it goes.

[Philly]

[Homer]

[Mr. Shaman]

[Winchester]

[John Galt]

[John Galt]

it looks like 54 seats for republicans at least in the senate (alaska will be republican; the loser incumbent won't concede even though he trails by 4% with all precincts reporting, and so will lousisiana, where there will be a runoff because other republican candidates won about 15% of the vote)
the house looks to be have the biggest republican majority in 80 years
there will be at least 31 republican governors, including in maryland, massachucetts, and illinois. in vermont, because he finished with 46% and only 2,500 votes ahead of the republican challenger, the incumbent democrat (in vermont) will have to go to the state legislature and have them vote him in instead (he'll be voted in i'm sure). but still. funny.
the republicans gained control of at least 7 more legislatures in the states, bringing their total to 66 out of 98
of those, 16 claim supermajority status and republicans now have total control of the legislature and the executive in 24 states, while democrats have that in 6

you can't say it's "incumbents" who lose. i vote against incumbents all the time, i f**k hate those guys. but most people don't, and it wasn't that they were voting against incumbents, it's pretty clear they were voting against democrats.

[Indy]

So now that the GOP is in charge--what's the plan?

[Philly]

There's nothing they wanna do that Obama will sign.