The only one in the nation as far as I can see.
How IRONIC that the supposedly -- if you read the Boston Globe -- most racist, sexist, and backward state (full of Tea Partiers) would be the LONE LIGHT of the NIGHT!
ALL the REPUBLICAN WOMEN I CHAMPIONED were REJECTED!!
Never has my DISAPPOINTMENT American women been so high!
"Haley elected first female governor in SC" by Mike Hammer, Associated Press | November 2, 2010
WASHINGTON --Republican Nikki Haley, who won her party's nomination with the support of Sarah Palin and tea party activists, has been elected the first female governor of South Carolina.
Also see: South Carolina's Falling Star
What is with the New York Times and being wrong all the time?
Haley, a daughter of immigrants from India, is a fiscal conservative who cited her experience as an accountant on the campaign trail....
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"GOP captures US House; A sharp rebuke to Obama and his party" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | November 3, 2010
WASHINGTON — Anxious and angry voters last night handed control of the US House to the Republican Party....
Republicans were expected to pick up at least 55 seats by the time all the votes were counted. But in a significant bright spot for Democrats on a night of heavy losses, they were on track to retain a crucial base of power in the Senate, where key victories in Connecticut, Delaware, West Virginia, Nevada, and California established a firewall against a Republican takeover. In one of the night’s most symbolic races, Senate majority leader Harry Reid will retain his post after surviving a strong challenge from Tea Party-backed Sharron Angle....
I guess his SON'S CONTROL over the VOTING MACHINES HELPED a WHOLE PILE!
Republicans had picked up six Senate seats previously held by Democrats, and had defeated two longtime incumbents, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. Tea Party-backed candidates won last night in several states, including Rand Paul in Kentucky and Marco Rubio in Florida.
“I have a message!’’ Paul told supporters in Bowling Green, Ky. “A message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: We’ve come to take our government back!’’
Yeah, I SAW THAT -- and then the LITTLE PUKE started talking about AmeriKan exceptionalism and capitalism!!
He EVEN REFERENCED Bernanke as an AUTHORITY on managing the economy!
I also saw Boehner start crying and was really disgusted!
What a bunch of clownish actors!
Yeah, I will be SCALING BACK the POLITICAL COVERAGE HERE!
More than one-third of those surveyed said their votes were cast in opposition to Obama, according to preliminary results from an exit poll conducted for the Associated Press, and about 40 percent said they considered themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement....
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Related:
"California voters have returned Democrat Jerry Brown to the governor’s office"
Also see: Jerry Brown Just Lost the Governorship of California
Thanks, ladies.
I guess the New York Times was WRONG AGAIN!
Also related:
"Republican Mark Kirk has won the Senate seat from Illinois that Obama once held, defeating Alexi Giannoulias"
I guess he really can't go home.
I'm none too happy with my own state as well as the rest of New England (save for New Hampshire), either:
"Voters end Democrats’ lock on House; Republicans make inroads in N.H. races" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | November 3, 2010
WASHINGTON — Republicans chiseled modestly yesterday at the Democratic Party’s monopoly on US House seats in New England by winning two House races in New Hampshire, but otherwise the region was on track to remain a pocket of blue....
In New Hampshire’s First District, two-term Democrat Carol Shea-Porter was easily defeated by Manchester’s mayor, Frank Guinta, while in the Second District in the western part of the state former Representative Charlie Bass beat Ann McLane Kuster, a lawyer and political activist, in the race for Hodes’s former seat....
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Independent Eliot Cutler was leading Republican Paul LePage as results were being tallied in Maine’s race for an open governor’s seat late last night.
Democrat Libby Mitchell conceded, saying, “It’s really a tough year for a Democrat, particularly for someone who’s been in office.’’
Not in Massachushitts!
LePage has led the field in poll numbers since his surprise primary win in June....
Did I just get a whiff of a stink!
Democratic Representatives Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree of Maine both won reelection, turning back challenges by their Republican opponents in an election in which voters were angry and members of the Tea Party movement were raising their voices in Maine and across the nation....
Your state, not mine.
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Update:
"Jubilant GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate" by David Espo, AP Special Correspondent | November 3, 2010
WASHINGTON --Resurgent Republicans won control of the House and cut deeply into the Democrats' majority in the Senate in momentous midterm elections....
House Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner, voice breaking with emotion, declared shortly before midnight Tuesday that the results were "a repudiation of Washington, a repudiation of big government and a repudiation of politicians who refuse to listen to the people."
So when are you going to start listening?
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Incomplete returns showed the GOP picked up at least 59 House seats -- the biggest party turnover in more than 70 years -- and led for six more....
Christine O'Donnell lost badly in Delaware....
My girl.
I know a lot of people don't like it when I type crap like that and I don't care.
The debate of the campaign and what the media focused on drove me. They attacked and savaged the poor girl. So take your Democratic hack and I'll move along.
A third tea party-backed candidate, O'Donnell, who went from a virtual unknown to primary winner to fodder for late-night comedians in the span of a few months, lost overwhelmingly to Democrat Chris Coons in Delaware....
Lost the nation's most closely watched race, in Nevada, where Majority Leader Harry Reid won....
Also see: "Angle, a relative newcomer, had raised eyebrows with some of her libertarian views"
I smell s*** all over that vote, what with Harry's kid and the instant-check early votes. And then they trotted out the "Hispanics showed up" after the Pew poll said they were not.
Other around the nation races you may care about:
Democratic Sens. Russell Feingold in Wisconsin and Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas were turned out of office.
Amazing how the LONE SENATOR to vote against the Patriot Act is now out, huh?
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was victorious in Connecticut, dispatching Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment. Sen. Barbara Boxer was elected to a fourth term in California, overcoming a challenge from Carly Fiorina....
In California, former Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. was elected to the office he held for two terms more than a quarter-century ago....
Some change. Didn't he help put you in that mess?
In a footnote to the brutal politics of the campaign, Republican-turned- independent Lincoln Chafee was elected governor of Rhode Island....
Also see: Rhode Island Rages Against Obama
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