Have you seen any site where it was analyzed just how many incumbents were turned out this time? There was sure a lot of screaming about voting them all out.
GOP WINS HOUSE; DEMS KEEP SENATE: The speaker’s gavel will soon belong to John Boehner: The GOP won control of the House on Tuesday night. By 1 a.m., they had picked up 55 seats—more than the 54 it won in 1994—and when all the votes are counted, they’re expected to have won between 64 and 66 seats, according to Nate Silver. Republicans needed 39 seats to take control of the House. Notable defeats include losses by 14-term Democrat John Spratt and 17-term Rep. Ike Skelton. Meanwhile in the Senate, the GOP won at least six seats, which is fewer than the 10 needed to take control. That includes nail-biting victories for Republicans Pat Toomey and Mark Kirk in Pennsylvania and Illinois, respectively. However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hung on in Nevada, and Colorado Senator Michael Bennet also fended off Tea Party challenger Ken Buck. REID PREVAILS IN NEVADA: Looks like Chuck Schumer will have to put aside his dreams of becoming Senate Majority leader: Senator Harry Reid survived a hard-fought challenge from Tea Party icon Sharron Angle to hold on to his job. The race captured the national spotlight, coming to symbolize the anti-incumbent fury of the Tea Party movement. Reid’s victory will put to rest jockeying within the Democratic caucus in the Senate over who should succeed him as majority leader. Reid, 70, will now begin his fifth term in the Senate. GOP PICKS UP SIX GOVERNORSHIPS: The GOP picked up at least six governorships on Tuesday night after victories in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Victories also include Republicans Nikki Haley in South Carolina and Rick Scott in Florida. Republicans seized control of a dozen state houses as well, including swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Both those states now have two Republican state houses and Republican governors, giving the GOP a big redistricting advantage. BROWN, BOXER WIN IN CALIFORNIA: The Republican tidal wave stopped short in California: Democrat Jerry Brown will return to the governor’s office in California, after winning a hard-fought race against Republican Meg Whitman on Tuesday night. Whitman poured a tremendous amount of her own money into what was the most expensive gubernatorial election in California history. Her loss makes Brown, once a youthful governor in the 1970s, now the state’s oldest executive. Meanwhile, liberal icon Barbara Boxer fought off a challenge from her Republican opponent, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, to keep her Senate seat. BUSH: KANYE’S CRITIQUE ‘DISGUSTING’: Maybe he and Taylor Swift should get together to commiserate? Former President George W. Bush tells Matt Lauer, in an interview that will air November 8, that one of the worst moments of his presidency was his bruised feelings after rapper Kanye West’s famously said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” The president tells Lauer “It was one of the most disgusting moments in my Presidency. He called me a racist, and I didn’t appreciate it then. I don’t appreciate it now.” President Bush’s book Decision Points comes out Nov 9, the day after the interview airs, and Lauer points out that in the book he told Laura Bush that Kanye’s remarks was one of his worst moments in his presidency. COMMENTARY By MAUREEN DOWD: "Talk about fired up and ready to go. At a Republican victory party suffused with vengeful glee, the man who body-surfed the anti-establishment wave to become the next Speaker of the House was looking very establishment. Even though it was predicted, it was still a shock to see voters humiliate a brilliant and spellbinding young president, who’d had such Kennedy-like beginning, while electing a lot of conservative nuts and promoting this central-casting congressman as the face of the future: a Republican who had vowed in a written pledge to restore America to old-fashioned values, returning to a gauzy “Leave It to Beaver” image that never existed even on the set of “Leave It to Beaver.” Republicans out-communicated a silver-tongued president who was supposed to be Ronald Reagan’s heir in the communications department." ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: "In the end, the 2010 midterms came down to a very simple truth: if unemployment were near double digits come November, Democrats would take a beating. It is, and they have. Exit polls found that nearly nine in ten voters believe the economy is in bad shape. The same percentage said they feel pessimistic about America’s economic future. That’s practically everyone! And while a large majority of voters still believe that George Bush is to blame for getting us into this mess, they are clearly holding Obama accountable for not fixing it." [image: Voted.JPG] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webtv-pals?hl=en.
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