# 2014 US General Election Results **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684 "2014-11-04T23:38:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/241 "2014-11-05T05:36:26Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Still, chances that the Dem centrists that created this debacle will lose power in the Democratic Party? Almost nil. Well, y’all progressives have a chance in 2 more years to wrest control from the centrist in the Dem Presidential primaries. I don’t really like your chances though. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/242 "2014-11-05T05:36:32Z")
> [@](#): > > …I guess Christine O’Donnell’s “I am not a witch” ad was simply ahead of its time, perhaps like Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Well, she isn’t a witch, I don’t think she’s even a vegan pagan. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/243 "2014-11-05T05:39:30Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Well, y’all progressives have a chance in 2 more years to wrest control from the centrist in the Dem Presidential primaries. I don’t really like your chances though. If the people lead, the leaders will follow. ---
**Author:** ![JesterX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JesterX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JesterX)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/244 "2014-11-05T05:44:35Z")
Just from reading through the thread I can tell the right are overestimating their victories. AGAIN! Even though the pubs benefited from low turnout. The only way they can ever win. Once again, the dems were out-enthused by a rabid, delusional, republican base. Conservatives gave them all they needed to attack their irrationality but all the dems did was defend. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/245 "2014-11-05T05:51:50Z")
I, for one, welcome our new overlords :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/246 "2014-11-05T06:09:04Z")
I read somewhere the turnout was estimated around 38%. Sweet zombies of the stratosphere, but that’s pathetic, even for a midterm. Apparently almost two-thirds of the electorate had better things to do today. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/247 "2014-11-05T06:10:10Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Well, y’all progressives have a chance in 2 more years to wrest control from the centrist in the Dem Presidential primaries. I don’t really like your chances though. Whereas I like your chances of losing elections to Republicans again. And again. And again. And again, so long as you continue to be Republican-lites and spurn a large part of your base. ---
**Author:** ![MemoryLeak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@MemoryLeak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryLeak)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/248 "2014-11-05T06:13:54Z")
I don’t understand why ya’ll don’t flip over to MSNBC and get the low down on this. They know what happen. Voting Rights Act changes suppressing the vote and Democrats running away from Obama’s policies instead of towards. Also, is Sharpton illiterate? And Chris Matthews really is a clown. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/249 "2014-11-05T06:16:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > If the people lead, the leaders will follow. Leaders chosen through the national standard vote-by-mail system – implemented after the USPS is handed over to FedEx. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/250 "2014-11-05T06:16:58Z")
Chris Matthews seems to be constantly afraid that someone else will start talking. ---
**Author:** ![JesterX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JesterX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JesterX)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/251 "2014-11-05T06:19:21Z")
> [@MemoryLeak](#): > > I don’t understand why ya’ll don’t flip over to MSNBC and get the low down on this. They know what happen. Voting Rights Act changes suppressing the vote and Democrats running away from Obama’s policies instead of towards. > > Also, is Sharpton illiterate? And Chris Matthews really is a clown. It wasn’t the voting rights act. It was dems failing to show up. Allowing already delusional conservatives to further feed their delusions by thinking most of the people agree with them when really most of the people didn’t give damn this time. But when they give a damn again, probably 2016, they’ll remind conservatives that they think their insane. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/252 "2014-11-05T06:21:07Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Leaders chosen through the national standard vote-by-mail system – implemented after the USPS is handed over to FedEx. Fine! If it leads to a massive increase in voter access and voter turnout, bring it! I don’t mind using capitalist-type methods to solve problems, long as it works. Its when they insist on using them when they _don’t_ work that gets on my nerves. Malform follows malfunction. ---
**Author:** ![JesterX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JesterX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JesterX)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/253 "2014-11-05T06:23:11Z")
> [@MemoryLeak](#): > > I don’t understand why ya’ll don’t flip over to MSNBC and get the low down on this. They know what happen. Voting Rights Act changes suppressing the vote and Democrats running away from Obama’s policies instead of towards. > > Also, is Sharpton illiterate? And Chris Matthews really is a clown. Duplicate post ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/254 "2014-11-05T06:37:23Z")
Total sweep by the [DEL]Tea Party[/DEL] Republicans in Arkansas. They gained the open state house seats, all the open state positions (Gov,Lt Gov, Attorney General etc) and a open US House Seat and Senate seat. Un fucking believable. All these candidates ran against the failed Presidency and vowed to fight it. The strategy worked too. We had two Democrat Senators 2 1/2 years ago. Lost Blanche Lincoln in 2012 and now Pryor in 2014. Term limits cost us our Democrat Governor. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/255 "2014-11-05T07:09:06Z")
On a positive note, Oregon is legalizing weed and Washington is requiring tighter oversight over gun show sales. ---
**Author:** ![JesterX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JesterX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JesterX)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/256 "2014-11-05T07:11:34Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > On a positive note, Oregon is legalizing weed and Washington is requiring tighter oversight over gun show sales. Also minimum wage increase passed almost everywhere it was on the ballot. Waiting on word from Alaska though. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/257 "2014-11-05T07:35:26Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > On a positive note, Oregon is legalizing weed and Washington is requiring tighter oversight over gun show sales. I don’t know about the weed, but I’m sure the new gun law will be the subject of a lawsuit by the NRA, and will eventually be overturned by the SCOTUS. Obama really never had a chance to change the Court’s composition, and it certainly doesn’t look like he’ll ever be able to, now. Has any President had less opportunity in six years to change the Court? I really want to know. As it stands, the SCOTUS is still stacked with appointments by Reagan and the Bushes. ---
**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/258 "2014-11-05T07:57:44Z")
I don’t like the results of the midterm election but I think I understand the why of it. For those sliding into despair on account of the outcome (bad for liberals and Dems in general) the good news is that every member of the house of representatives is up for re-election in two years, so for those who don’t like where the country is headed many, maybe most the gains by the Repubs can be turned around in exactly two calendar years. A third of the senate is up at the same time; and there’s potential for growth there, too. The Left is messed up, and for more reasons than I care to go into here and now; while the Right appears to be in literally reactionary mode. If all they do is cut government spending, shut down or reduce funding for programs that help people, invoking the spirits of Alexander Hamilton Adam Smith as they go about their business, their victory will be short-lived. But the Left has to come up with better ideas, find new ways to appeal to the tattered remains of the middle class, while appealing to poorer voters,–and there will be a lot more of them in 2016–and if they’re good at it, they can reverse the “damage” (I’m obviously coming from a left of center perspective) of yesterday’s election. So to sum it up: it ain’t over yet. The election’s over, but life moves on. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/259 "2014-11-05T08:53:10Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I don’t know about the weed, but I’m sure the new gun law will be the subject of a lawsuit by the NRA, and will eventually be overturned by the SCOTUS. Obama really never had a chance to change the Court’s composition, and it certainly doesn’t look like he’ll ever be able to, now. > > Has any President had less opportunity in six years to change the Court? I really want to know. As it stands, the SCOTUS is still stacked with appointments by Reagan and the Bushes. Liberals begged Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign; she refused indignantly. She rocks. Obama got two appointments in his first term, a record not beaten by any other first-term president since Nixon. Bush had two appointments total, but both in his second term–none in his first. Clinton had two in his first term. Bush 41 had one. Reagan had three over two terms, although one of them was Antonin Scalia who should really count as three, given his enormous positive effect on the law. Obama’s opportunity to appoint justices is tied with top numbers of presidents since Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/260 "2014-11-05T09:06:01Z")
The fact that every Democrat running for re-election had to run from the president like he’s the Howard Hughes of Washington tells you all you need to know. This was an outright rejection of Obama’s policies. I bet he’s all butt-hurt in the Oval Office. And now it’s the Republicans’ turn to get arrogant and stink it up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684.md?page=14)