Totally. That Kentucky race was typical: a Dem refusing to endorse any of the Obama administration’s policies or initiatives (successfully enacted or hoped-for).
I hate to say this, but people like that deserve to lose. Show some energy, loyalty, and backbone, Dems!
I actually thought adaher’s comment about Colorado Dem voters failure of motivation wasn’t far off the mark. So, I don’t just blame spineless, cowardly candidates. I also blame some laziness and inattention on the part of some voters.
As for 2016, any pro-Dem backlash this shelling might produce may be canceled out by how these results bode poorly for trends in key states like Florida.
Oh, and Dem candidates everywhere should have pointed to Kansas governor Sam Brownback’s failures in the past four years as an example of what you’ll get if you vote Pub. No idea why they didn’t highlight this more.
No, it was an outright rejection of Obama, personally. As others have noted, his policies did just fine (approving minimum wage…rejecting personhood for unfertilized ova…even some gun control referendum…plus the fact that “repealing Obamacare” hasn’t been heard much lately, now that it’s, you know, working, and the sun still rises in the east).
I don’t believe it. Brownback won another term for Kansas governor, beating Democratic candidate Paul Davis (almost 50% to almost 48%)
Wow. Davis was modestly, but solidly, ahead in the polls all the way to yesterday. A lot of Kansas voters who usually vote Pub were dissatisfied with Brownback’s cutbacks in education and more, and his failure to get the regional economy moving to the degree he’d promised to.
Moderate Republican Larry Hogan laid a solid beating on wet fish Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown. Brown based his candidacy on promising universal pre-k. He also awkwardly tried to tie Hogan to extreme Republican social issues. This was a total repudiation of overtaxation by Martin O’Malley and the Democratic machine in Annapolis. Brown carried only counties in the crony-infested DC suburbs, and Baltimore City, where his operatives had difficulty harvesting votes. Likely because he was one of the more wet fish I’ve seen lately in politics.
No worries. Hogan will be churned to butter by the State House for four years until a Democratic candidate with the ability to make facial expressions and vocal intonations surfaces. Also, Democrats kept their 7 of 8 House seats. As a whole, these are probably the most gerrymandered districts in the United States, but I’d be interested to be proved wrong.
Intensely blue Vermont’s governor’s race is still too close to call. The Republican party had trouble finding anyone to go up against the incumbent, finally picking a first-time campaigner with little experience, who ran a lackluster campaign. Shumlin (the Democrat) will probably pull it out, but it is far closer than anyone could have imagined.
Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Yeah, now he’s gonna have to learn how to work with those pesky republicans! After all, it’s not like “compromising with republicans” is anything like “compromising with a hungry tiger”.
Democrats either need to get a whole lot meaner and dumber, or republicans have to get a whole lot smarter. Because that’s basically what this whole election cycle came down to: idiocy and vile politics. People are *stunningly *ignorant of what the actual effects of Obama’s policies have been, and perhaps just as stunningly ignorant of how bad the proposed republican policies are in practice (you can see this in Kansas). But beyond that idiocy, there were the “scandals”, most of which were blown horribly out of proportion and inflated to ridiculous proportions by republicans who should have known better. Every single retarded witch hunt that Darrell Issa went on hurt Obama, regardless of how baseless (or indeed, offensive, in the case of the Benghazi operation) it was. Darrell Issa, by the way, still has his seat. This is what politics has come down to, and democrats are somehow still exceedingly bad at flinging shit. Remember Reid’s commentary about Romney not paying taxes? It was laughed off almost immediately. By comparison, the ludicrous allegations about a stand-down order for Benghazi, which were just as completely baseless, were adopted by many conservatives, including people here on this very forum. Why? Is “lying” a power that only republicans are any good at harnessing? What the fuck is wrong with this picture?
What’s wrong with this picture is that the only times most liberals allow their contempt with the American voter to publicly emerge is after a shellacking. I wish your side would be as up-front about your disdain for the voter the rest of the time.
Drop the “holier than thou” act. Even if it’s accurate, the only reason to do it is because you know it pisses virtually everyone here off. Oh, I’m exceedingly disdainful for basically anyone willing to vote republican at this point. And I’ll say it any time the issue comes up. It shows a disgusting ignorance of virtually every scientific part of policy analysis.
Also, to the liberals: where the fuck were you? You do know that midterms fucking matter too, right?
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The people smart enough to do the right thing were too lazy; the rest were idiots. Well done, America.
Interestingly, if Republicans were more up-front with their smugness before Election Day, they would win fewer elections. I believe that the party urges candidates to keep that under wraps until after they win at the polls.
Went to bed early last night, when things seemed to be going OK, and woke up to the Red Tide.
Guess people will quickly find what conservatives really want, not that there’s much doubt among those of us who’ve been paying attention.
First prediction: you know how they get angry about the notion of turning control of our affairs over to international bodies? It won’t stop them from pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership through to Obama’s desk, despite the fact that it would do just that.
I don’t know what your definition of “in power” is, but mine is not close to “being the guy who gets to decide what legislation fails due to a filibuster today”. From a national perspective, this election made no difference at all; now it will just be Republican stuff not getting passed.
At the state level, these results are deeply disturbing.