We’ve reached the point where all we can do is count the numbers. Here are the results.
I will also discuss what happened and why.
The Senate:
As of 6:00 PM the Senate consists of 45 Democrats, 33 Republicans, 2 Independents and 22 not yet projected. So far this represents a net gain of two seats for Republicans, as they have taken Indiana and Arkansas. On the InsaniTEA front, Rubio and Paul have won.
The House:
So far Republicans lead 78-35. I’m devastated to report that Alan Grayson has succumbed to the corporate money bomb and lost his race. MSNBC projects that Republicans will take the House by a wide margin.
Governors:
Democrats have held Arkansas, New Hampshire and New York. Republicans have held Texas and picked up state houses in Kansas and Tennessee.
More to come.
Update 7:00 PM PDT:
The Senate:
The Senate consists of 45 Democrats, 39 Republicans, 2 Independents and 13 not yet projected. So far this represents a net gain of three seats for Republicans, as they have taken Indiana, Arkansas and North Dakota.
The House:
So far Republicans lead 126-72.
Governors:
Republicans have picked up the state houses in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Michigan, Oklahoma and Kansas.
More to come.
Update 8:00 PM PDT:
The Senate:
The Senate consists of 46 Democrats, 44 Republicans, 2 Independents and 8 not yet projected. So far this represents a net gain of four seats for Republicans, as they have taken Indiana, Arkansas, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Russ Feingold has lost.
The House:
So far Republicans lead 167-116.
Governors:
Republicans have picked up the state houses in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
More to come.
Update 9:00 PM PDT:
The Senate:
The Senate consists of 48 Democrats, 44 Republicans, 2 Independents and 6 not yet projected. So far this represents a net gain of four seats for Republicans, as they have taken Indiana, Arkansas, North Dakota and Wisconsin.
The House:
So far Republicans lead 199-142. Did anyone else notice that Boehner was drunk when he gave his Republican victory speech?
Governors:
Republicans have picked up the state houses in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
More to come.
Update 9:00 PM PDT:
The Senate:
The Senate consists of 49 Democrats, 46 Republicans, 2 Independents and 3 not yet projected. So far this represents a net gain of six seats for Republicans, as they have taken Indiana, Arkansas, North Dakota and Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Illinois. The Nevada Leg Hound won, but only because he faced Angle instead of Chicken Lady. Only Colorado, Washington and Alaska remain. The Democrat leads in Washington. The Republican leads in Colorado, but he may have been flipped around 30,000 votes by a clerical error.
The House:
So far Republicans lead 225-152. It’s now official. Republicans control the House.
Governors:
Republicans have picked up the state houses in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Democrats picked up the state house in California. Governor Moonbeam beat Megabucks Whitman.
More to come.
Final Update:
The Senate:
The Senate consists of 49 Democrats, 46 Republicans, 2 Independents and 3 not yet projected. So far this represents a net gain of six seats for Republicans, as they have taken Indiana, Arkansas, North Dakota and Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Illinois. The Nevada Leg Hound won, but only because he faced Angle instead of Chicken Lady. Only Colorado, Washington and Alaska remain. Washington is a dead heat. The Republican leads in Colorado, but a clerical error may have flipped him about 30,000 of the Democrat’s votes. Alaska looks like an write-in win for Murkowski, but we won’t know until the write-in votes are hand counted.
The House:
So far Republicans lead 233-180, with 22 still undecided.
Governors:
Republicans have picked up the state houses in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Wyoming and Iowa. Democrats picked up the state house in California. Governor Moonbeam beat Megabucks Whitman.
No more results are expected tonight.
Why it happened:
We had the votes to win. Yesterday I said it will depend on the turnout, and the turnout was low nationwide, especially among young voters. For example:
One of the big assumptions the Democratic Party made this year was that President Obama could turn out the young voters who had voted for him in 2008—and there was no state in which Democrats tried harder to turn out this vote than Ohio. Nationwide, young voters did not turn out this time around. Only 11 percent of those under 30 turned out, below the 18 percent of the 2008 election and the 13 percent who turned out in 2006. In Ohio, the young vote was even more dismal. There, only 8 percent of young voters are voting. In 2006, exit polls showed that 13 percent of young voters turned out in Ohio… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Slate Magazine>
Republicans are saying that that Democrats were defeated, because we are too liberal. As always, they lie. Democrats were defeated for three reasons, among others which I shall cover at a later time. Democrats were not progressive enough. If they had accomplished less, but had been seen as fighting for Main Street more, they would have won. Had some young progressives not recognized that some progress is better that Speaker Boehner and motivated their peers instead of whining, we would have won. Most of all, had American voters made the effort to learn the facts surrounding the issues instead of believing deceptive attack ads, secretly funded by criminal corporations, we would have won.
TC signing off…
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Yesterday Alan Grayson wrote a letter to both Tim Geithner and the Financial Stability Oversight Council regarding Bank of America indemnifying their Title Insurance companies so as to ease their ability to foreclose (since Title companies have to be involved but are avoiding commitment now). He urged Geithner/FSOC to mandate capital requirements for this practice, cause since BofA is TBTF they would be bailed out by taxpayers if this indemnifying Title Companies blew up.
Who else in congress would do this? Who else in congress even knew or cared about this. Grayson was FIGHTING for people and the moth******ers voted him out. An absolute disgrace and travesty, someone who IMO was above reproach.
I will be writing to Webster to make sure he fights for my interests and the interests of the rest of the electorate – not just the far-right…
Kevin, my friend, fat chance. 🙁
Welcome home, Oso. I’m sorry the occasion for your return is such a sad one. He was the best, and I hope this is not the end of his political career. I’d support him to head the DNC in a hot minute.
Hi TC!
You know what frustrates me is that the Dems allowed the Right to dictate our economic direction. I mean, we HAVE to deficit spend to allow the private sector to pay down their debt. Had the administration explained that and hammered it (the way Repubs do) it would have taken root in the public mind, and forced Republicans to defend their “cut spending” mantra.
Instead we pretty much agreed with what they said, as far as the medium and short term go anyway.
Now people will find out the Republicans HAVE no plan, not one that will work.Because it blew up under Bush, Obama essentially continued Bush economic policy and he has only been in office a relatively short time only the stupidest teabagger can blame much on the president.
Maybe giving teabaggers credit for any intelligence it all is wrong, though huh?
Sadly, Florida got hit hard. I lost Grayson and Rubio is headed to Washington… looks like our new Attorney General may be Democrat Gelber, so hopefully he puts an end to this right-wing nonsense like health care challenges and paying thousands for anti-gay “experts”…
I still got my fingers crossed for Sink.
Shining moment on the FL ballot – Amendments 5 and 6 look as good as gold – finally some laws to regulate redistricting. Florida is a state that has more Democrats then Republicans yet the electorate keeps sending conservative to Talahassee and DC. Maybe now the playing field will be leveled. If those amendments were to fail and we got stuck with the new breed of GOP, I would have been extremely discouraged but hope is not lost!
Hope things fair well in your district!
Unfortunately, Scott has a three point lead over Sink with 74% in. Tell us more about those amendments. They’re below my radar out in Oregon.
Starting to get a déjà vu feeling to Clara Peller’s famous Wendy’s commercial. But rather than asking “Where’s the beef?” … I’m now asking “Where’s the tsunami?”
Of course the totally non-existent “liberal” MSM will still spin it that it’s a huge – I tell you HUGE – Teapublican win. But they’re f▼cking wrong – so I’m feeling better and better.
A useful tracking election night site:
Talking Points Memo has a cool interactive map (the link takes you to the House map, but it’s got Senate, Governor and Proposition tabs):
http://election2010.talkingpointsmemo.com/all#/House/
Nameless, the results appear worse on the House than in the Senate, but I think for MSNBC to call the whole house while the Western US is still voting was unconscionable. On the other hand, there’s ABC with Andrew Breitbart and a break in coverage for Dancing with the Stars.
I’m grouchy over Rand’s victory, but relieved that O’Donnell didn’t even come close to winning. I’ll be staying up late to watch live coverage of the upcoming horrors.
A small silver-lining to Rand is that he’s probably the most likely Teapublican to support putting defense spending on the chopping block. (Libertarians just aren’t too big on “regime change” via the military.)
Maybe so, Nameless, but I don;t consider him an authentic Libertarian. Libertarians aren’t big on head-stomping women either.
On O’Dingbat, what can I say? God must have a change in plans. 🙄
Just as in the past two years there will be no functioning realistic government. The only difference will be the right side of the aisle will have to explain to me why they are cutting my Social Security, Medicare and taxing me more while telling me it is less.
I wonder if Angle still wants her second amendment solution now that she has lost? Duck leg hump duck!
What do you think is Biden going to go in and change the rules or leave it a 60 vote plurality necessary for passage of legislation and will the left side have the balls to return the favor of the un-ending filibuster and then stand before microphones and say it’s the right side that won’t let anything get accomplished. after all it is the minority party that magically speaks for the American people, isn’t that how it worked these past two years.
I am sorry I just don’t think the president has the balls to fight the the battle of the next two years and we may very well be looking at becoming the Afghanistan of the developed nations. Bohener got one thing right and it should become the presidents mantra “NO COMPROMISE.” make them over ride every veto and veto everything they send him that is detrimental to Main Street. The republicans have never wanted a middle class, they wanted a worker class who lives just barely above subsistence levels. a man or woman who works two or three jobs just to pay rent can not pay attention to what they are going to be doing to the nation. Without lube, why waste the taxpayer dollars on Vaseline, the vaseline maker jobs haven’t been outsourced yet.
Has anyone really been paying attention to what the new business model is? Hire part time workers with no benefits, no sick or vacation time, terminate at will and use the worker as a bolster to the bottom line. Why hire one full time worker and pay benefits when you can hire two part time workers for less money, get more hours of labor from them and they get a paycheck and nothing else. Then if the Right rolls back any health care there won’t be 35 million uninsured but more like 55 million and every one of them paying a fine of $3000 for not having health care or able to afford any real health care that covers anything short of 10 minutes before death.
Fine job America, you did a fine job today.
A victory for corporatocracy was inevitable. It has not lost an election in over thirty years. The new Congress can provide a real foundation, and a real target, for Democratic leadership, if such a thing can exist anymore.
It’s going to be hell! Mconell said the people dissed Obama and they are going to do what they want. If there is going to be any compromising it will come from the Democrats. Obama will compromise on the already compromised to shit but nothing of consequence will get done as Boehner will put forth shit Reid will not let through. The next two are going to be worse than the first two.
Thanks to all who replied.