UPDATE 2-Republican election surge hits U.S. state houses

Wow…a net gain of 680 state seats? Thank you Obama.

The people have spoken. In having done so, they have won a victory no matter whom they chose to represent them. Power to the people, for they have vindicated themselves and kept faith with all who paid for that right with the last full measure of devotion. They have done their civic duty and honored their citizenship and country. Bravo!

Just Gerrymander Baby! Gerrymander!

The Republican victory was high, toppling Nancy Pelosi. It was at the base, securing all those state seats, houses and legislatures. It was wide, running all through areas Republicans have not dominated for many years, to very much include so much of the Rust Belt. Pennsylvania and even Barack Obama’s former Senate seat.

Everyone can be proud that the Republican victory ran incontestably counter to the narrative put forth by their opponents — note: not “enemies”! — when black Republicans won in Congressional Districts that are majority white, and when a Republican woman became the first Latina Governor in the whole history of the Republic.

Wow.

Then, there were all of the “Old Bulls” of the House who will no longer remain satraps in charge of all that pork. Kanjorski, Spratt and on the list went. Just as impressive, Rahm’s Recruits, who won in 2006 or in 2008, in no small part by managing to successfully appear to their electorates as right-wingers, got wiped out, as if by the hand of the Almighty.

Time to start building that firewall against the Constitution. It starts with gerrymandering the states. If Dems want to own the inner cities, fine. We’ll just make sure that the cities stay the city vote, and the suburbs and rural areas stay that way. No “anchors” should be thrown around districts surrounding blue cities if the Republicans are smart.

No chance for the Leftists in 2012. We will revisit issues like NE Dem Senator Ben Nelson who voted for cloture on Obamacare. He pulled his usual trick. Vote to get it on the floor, knowing full well he could vote against the passage of the bill and it would pass by super majority. Then he could go back to conservative NE claiming he voted against it.

Like John Skerry, I voted for it before I voted against it.

He won’t have a prayer in 2010.

And this slaughter continued in city counsel, school board and mayor’s races nationwide as well. This was a steamroll that put my ex party back a decade or longer. Nice work there Chicago.

The problem is that the American economy won’t be much better in two years and it won’t be much better in four years.

Unless you are extraordinarily wealthy, the next decade is going to compare poorly with the last one.

Since, there is a short-sighted group of voters who are swinging elections one way or another, I would expect that trend to continue.

Unless, of course, voters start choosing third party candidates. That would be a real game changer.

The problem with the economy is that it is a wholly owned subsiderary of the Democrat Party. It started with the Community Reinvestment Act and ended with banks being sued because they didn’t loan enough to minorities and low income. Then the house of cards built by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Henry Cisneros collapsed.

The Dems were in charge of the purse strings and regulatory agencies since 2006.

Then they tried to say the the Republicans drove the car in the ditch. What chutzpah! What hypocrisy!

Liberal/Progressive always end the same way, in disaster. Medicare and Social Security are two more examples.

Maybe America is waking up.

What the nation needs now is a re-focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and achievement at all levels. Let’s stop trying to equalize ourseves with the rest of the world.
The goal is to be gentle and gracious leaders.

Folks do not rest or take solace in these victories. More work needs to be done. The democrat party is no longer made up of Americans, through foreign intervention it has been taken over by radical socialist that wants us to give up our power and wealth along with our super power status. We need to cleanse the system and democrat party of this enemy disease and put us back on track by following our laws. many issues like illegal immigration (look what it has done to California and nevada)cap and trade, Obama Care need to be rectified. Spending needs to be reduced and we need to unshackle the private industry and start making things again…stick with the cleansing we have a ways to go.

Redistricting is an an inheretanly difficult process. This cycle however looks to be more favorable to a little less gerrymandering when performed by GOP controlled houses. One key to GOOD redistricting is a set of rules that are acceptabe to everyone:
1) All districts sahll be of a contiguous nature, no breaks.
2) NO district line shall cross or bisect any property as defined by the tax/parcel maps on file as of a given date. . All lines shall be superimposed to roadways, rivers, railroads or other easily discernable reference point.
3) district lines should be relatively close to existing boundaries as closely as practical.
4) Lower governmental subdivision, i.e. state house, city council should have principle boundaries that coincide with high order boundaries.
5) Take maximum advantage of the geospatial software capabilities. Agree one one base map source. Many good people have worked very hard to ensure accuracy of maps

Communism defeated at all levels!!!

@philysmart
Couldn’t agree with you more. Gone are the days when Dems wanted to take care of people. Now are the days when Dems represent illegal alliens and free HC and 46% of the nation paying no fed income tax (look it up).

Every city, state that welcomes those who do not respect the law and do not earn what they take will fail. California will be the first to go.

It took a Kenyan born closet Muslim and other communists coming out of the closet, they thought they had us. After showing what they are made of, the true nature of the communist , I mean Democrat party and people are waking up, finally.

It is truly amazing that, as much as the Dems cheat, Republicans were still able to have so many wins. Can you imagine how many more would have won if the Dems hadn’t dragged people to the polls who had no idea who/what they were voting for and bribed and threatened others? It is truly mind-bogglig. The vote for Republicans must have been enormously high to still beat the cheating, especially in states like Illinois.

Hard_Thought,

Don’t forget that HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, now Governor of NY, sued banks forcing them to sell sub-primes. You can see Cuomo gloating about this at C-SPAN.

www.theclassicalliberal.com

Here’s a few words of warning to any GOP Rino who’s thinking of co-opting the results of this election and stabbing Tea Party members in the back; YOU’RE NEXT!!!!

Now would be a good time for some Republican to look statesmanlike and propose an end to the endless gerrymandering that gives us such contorted districts with the obvious aim of preserving incumbents’ votes, and lumping minorities together so that they can “elect one of their own” as if we shouldn’t be past the idea that only somebody my color can represent me. They should state that, to the maximum extent possible, Congressional districts should conform to county lines.

Of course, that would still work out great for Republicans. If you look at any national election map broken down by counties, it’s almost totally red.

“Folks do not rest or take solace in these victories. More work needs to be done.”
Well said, phillysmart!
What we can expect coming at us now is an organized campaign by liberals to smear the Republicans as obstructionists who cause more debt.

The first I hope will be true…no compromising with liberals! That’s not why I voted to put you in office.

The second will likely be true: tax cuts initially cause more deficits since our bloated government produces zero and is ALL overhead! Until it’s pared down it will continue to run up the debt. The President himself is doing a great job spending other peoples money on his (and his family) junkets.

Eventually though, with the right incentives, the private sector will once again create jobs and tax revenues will increase again.

Don’t fall for the naysayers strategy… hold the course.