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2006 Election Results

corplinx said:
The big difference in the next two years of this new congress will be that despite being stuck in Iraq, we will have 40 investigations into why.
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Good! (I wish you were right, but it won't happen)


Upchurch said:
It's a local thing, but got some play in the national press:

Missouri Amendment 2, which is intended to protect stem cell research, was approved.
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That is great news. When I quit watching last night I thought it was sunk.

Daredelvis
 
Kopji said:
Virginia will be this year's Ohio?
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That, or Montana. Both states are still counting the Senate race votes. The Dems need both to win the majority in the Senate. I expect if the Dems win both, we won't hear much about "voting irregularites" in VA or MT. If they don't win both, we will be hearing a lot about them. This morning, NPR is downplaying voting irregularities.

Noboby paid much attention when I posted this topic about Conrad Burns back in June.

This is one race to watch if one is interested in the Dems chances of taking the majority in the Senate. They need to gain six seats to become the majority.
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Well, we Republicans have had our asses kicked, and kicked hard.

With the Republican Party controlling the House and Senate and the White House, along with control of Supreme Court nominations, they had it all, and they blew it.

Guess we won't be hearing much about gay marriage or flag burning amendments any more. And that's a good thing.

We will be seeing a lot of congressional investigations. I just hope the Dems don't overreach out of vindictiveness and shoot themselves in the foot. I don't think that's what the voters wanted when they voted for change yesterday.

But now Bush is going to find out the true meaning of the word "mandate". And that mandate is, "Do something about Iraq, and do it now."

Bush has announced he is going to hold an impromptu press conference today. Watch him sweat.
 
No major surprises here in Florida. I thought that the fight over Foley's seat was tougher than the Dems expected, but other than that, everything went as expected. The Virginia battle between Allen and Webb kept me up late. I think this was the most interesting battle of the election. I do hope that Webb wins, I saw him speak a few weeks ago and was very impressed. He seems like a regular guy who will bring intelligence and honesty to the table. I think that if he wins, Webb will be his own man, not a pawn of either party. That's why I always liked John McCain, even though he has dissapointed me lately with his courtship of the Evangelicals.
 
Luke T. said:
Yeah, I just heard that on NPR. I bet the gay community is pleased. :)
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As everyone should be. The man's an embarassment to Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, conservatives, the Catholic Church, the Republican Party, and the human species in general.
 
Luke T. said:
Well, we Republicans have had our asses kicked, and kicked hard.
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I never understood how such slim margins came to be considered a ass-kicking. Reagan kicked his opponent's ass. The past few elections have been close calls.

Luke T. said:
Guess we won't be hearing much about gay marriage or flag burning amendments any more. And that's a good thing.

We will be seeing a lot of congressional investigations. I just hope the Dems don't overreach out of vindictiveness and shoot themselves in the foot.
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It didn't hurt the Republicans in the 90's, but I agree that it shouldn't be overdone on principle, if for no other reason.

I think more (I'll resist saying "some") congressional oversight/investigations are also good things.

Luke T. said:
Bush has announced he is going to hold an impromptu press conference today. Watch him sweat.
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I'll be tuning in online. I think he's going to be learning a whole lot about politics in the next two years that he's been sheltered from for the last six.
 
The thing is, it seems to me, that what this election proved is something Rove and Bush don't understand: America reallly is a 50/50 nation. Much as the GOP ridiculed Clinton, Clinton cut and tried to govern from the Center. For 6 years, Bush has tried to govern from the edge...taking his bare victories (if they were that) and calling them a mandate for his base. But, what happened last night was about the center. Bush lost the center, it shifted...not to a radical extreme, but against -- imo-- the lies and naked partisanism that divides rather than unites.

I've believed all along that when Bush took us to war, he could have built a united front and bridged the divide that exist in much of America. Instead, he opted to emphasize the devide...a Democrat win is an AL Qeda win rhetoric. It really shows how little they understood their chances. Were Rove to be the real genious that they claimed, he'd have focused on building his "permanent" majority by focusing on the middle.

Nothing much will happen during the next two years... gridlock and vetos is my guess. In the short term, at least, I am looking forward to some real oversigh in Congress of the Pentagon and our Iraq policy...but if the Dems are still doing only oversight in 6 months, they will have blown it as well...
 
I think one of the first post-election Administration casualties will be Rumsfeld. Soon.
 
No...he'll stick around because he will love testifying under oath before Herny Waxman or John Dingell or Ike Skelton... NOT.
 
One of the things that I found interesting was the similarity between the political/geographical map today and that of the US during the Civil War. The Blue States are basically the "North" and the Red States are the "South".

The Western/Mid Western States may be the ones who decide who controls the US Government in future elections, as the Old North and Old South basically cancel each other out. It will be interesting.
 
Cleon said:
As everyone should be. The man's an embarassment to Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, conservatives, the Catholic Church, the Republican Party, and the human species in general.
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voting against him was extremely satisfying.
 
One fun highlight of the day: The irony of the concession speech by the Democratic candidate for Senator in Connecticut. :)
 
In Texas, not one incumbant lost their job. The only seat that changed parties was Tom DeLay's vacant seat, and only then because its too much trouble to write in a candidate.

Gawd, we're boring.
 
Luke T. said:
Well, we Republicans have had our asses kicked, and kicked hard.
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I dont know, I have a hard time calling the douches ruling the congress for the last 6 years "republicans". Hopefully this will wake up the true "minimal government, stay out of my life" republicans to come back
 
The Democratic candidate in Montana is declaring victory now. He says that there are only 800 votes yet to be counted, and, even if they all went to his opponent, he would still win.
 
Luke T. said:
Bush coming out swinging in about 28 minutes.
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Swinging what? His mandate? His belief that a vote for Democrats is a vote for terrorism (that ought to go well with the new Congress)? His assertions of the value of Rummsfeld?

He may be swinging..but it is because he's been hoisted on his own petard.
 
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