Well shoot.
- Thread starter bdtex
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Other than the election,today was a pretty good day.We got our butts kicked. There are still a few no-calls but other than NH and PA,I haven't seen any good news. NC is the biggest surprise. Some pollsters there got some 'splaining to do there.
My county...in what some say is a bluer than blue state...went Republican, as did the Governor opening. Now, this is no surprise to me, because I live here and have a modicum of understanding the strange dynamics of Maryland politics.
My county elected a Constitutional Party freak, Michael Peroutka, to the county council. The county elected a fairly nasty Republican for County Executive who chased an incumbent moderate Republican in the primary by using the fake tagline "People Before Politics"...then running her down as "not Republican enough"...
And my entire delegate slate, all Republicans, were reelected.
Yet...the other state positions, Comptroller, GA, went D. This will present a problem for the new Governor, because even with the county results, the Assembly remains in D control. We saw this with the previous R Governor, who was elected because the Ds put up a weak candidate who had served as Lt Gov. MD does not like this type of progression as a Lt. Gov has NEVER won higher office in the state.
Regardless, it is now time for the Republicans to govern. I believe the electorate decided to give them a chance...and if they proceed as they have done, this will be a short lived "victory".
BRU
Mayor
Other than the election,today was a pretty good day.
and the war on women in NC didn't appear to be a good strategy. (or anywhere for that matter) Tillis polled very well with women.
You gonna stick around awhile?
I knew you'd like it.
Zam-Zam
Senator
Other than the election,today was a pretty good day.
The one thing Democrats and Republicans have in common is their uncanny knack for screwing things up. There will be another "Throw the bums out!" election in our future, followed by another, and another, etc. Neither party has a clue how to govern.
It's not entirely the parties' fault. Estimated turnout here in TX yesterday was gonna be around 30%. I don't assume the other 70% are all low information voters. Can't be easy governing for 100% and trying to figure out who will be voting in the next election.
Lukey
Senator
Hi BD!
I might - but I've written one screenplay and am almost finished with the second since I disappeared and I have more story ideas so I doubt I'll be here all day every day like I used to be.
Hey. Congratulations. Didn't know you were a writer too. I have 3 young grandchildren and business is good so I'm not here as much either.
one piece of good news - former Sen Scott Brown losing AGAIN.
Lukey
Senator
Well good for you! I hope those grand kids keep on keeping you busy!
Boca
Governor
I don't reside or vote in NC but I spend the hot months here and I have to say I've never witnessed such a negative, diversionary, underhanded, packed with lies campaign as that run by Kay Hagan. She never once addressed a national issue, not the economy, not foreign policy, not healthcare, not terrorism, not employment, nothing. Yet she was running for national office? Her whole campaign focused on internal NC issues over which, as a United States Senator, she would have no influence? North Carolinians were probably insulted, at the very least they saw through it. It came across as an admission that she had done nothing and there was nothing to boast about.
What else to do but bombard the airwaves with nothing but negatives and misleading information that bordered on lies. For example, saying her opponent would cut Medicare, when in fact she voted for a $780 billion cut in Medicare when she voted for ObamaCare. And there were others. Like her opponent, as Speaker of House in NC, cut education when in fact when in the state legislature she voted for a $3 billion budget cut that seriously impacted education spending.
To her credit though she didn't attempt to play the race card like Mary Landrieu in Louisiana. Thumbs up for that.
Bugsy McGurk
President
Other than the election,today was a pretty good day.
The president's party losing seats in his second midterm is certainly not unusual - it's common.
What is unusual is to see it happen based upon a complete fiction, with the party gaining power offering no solutions to resolve the fiction.
Ted Cruz, for example, said it was all due to "the Obama economy." But the reality is that the economy has been ever-improving ever since Obama quickly ended the epic economic collapse he inherited. Truly remarkable improvements, especially when it's considered that Obama faced such relentless sabotage from the GOP.
And what has the GOP proposed to make the economy even better? Nothing. They have no positive agenda whatsoever.
But that's GOP politics today - brainwash enough nitwits to hate, and think up is down, and seize more power.
The nation is screwed.
