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MT @RussOnPolitics History made in Rhode Island. Gina Raimondo elected governor. First woman gov & first Dem since 92
9:36 PM - 4 Nov 2014
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Wendy Davis lost, Latino voters in Texas favored her over Republican Greg Abbott by a 68%-32% margin, @LatinoDecisions says.
9:06 PM - 4 Nov 2014 Manhattan, NY, United States
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Congratulations to @GwenForCongress on her election! http://www.floridadems.org/news/fdp-statement-congratulating-gwen-graham-on-her-election #NorthFLWay
9:58 PM - 4 Nov 2014
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Another point you won't hear on TV tonight: After the election, @OfficialCBC will have 47 members, the largest # of Blacks ever in Congress.
8:48 PM - 4 Nov 2014
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Coloradans rejected for the THIRD time a ballot initiative to define personhood as beginning at conception http://bit.ly/1x2g5Ys
10:22 PM - 4 Nov 2014
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Dont let anyone say Udall lost because he ran on womens issues. In 2012, Obama won women in #CO by only 3pts. Udall won women by 9pts.
10:29 PM - 4 Nov 2014
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Good news for Dems, in 2016 GOP will be defending 22 Senate seats
10:36 PM - 4 Nov 2014
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/04/what-the-pundits-wont-tell-you/
mahina
(17,726 posts)aloha!
Cha
(297,890 posts)mahina
(17,726 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 5, 2014, 03:55 AM - Edit history (1)
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(297,890 posts)up David Ige. I'm so happy right now because I was wondering with all the gop shite flyin' around if it had infected Hawaii, too. But, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025763872
Mahalo mahina & Hawai!
mahina
(17,726 posts)who always, always, always vote.
Aloha no Cha
Cha
(297,890 posts)Very emotional NOW!
Aloha no, mahina
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)"Good news for Dems, in 2016 GOP will be defending 22 Senate seats"
to this: the seats the GOP won tonight will all be up in 2020 at the time of reapportionment.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Cha
(297,890 posts)Bright Spot!
sheshe2
(83,987 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,568 posts)There are two senators for each state so there is nothing to reapportion. The House seats won't be reapportioned until 2022 since the census occurs in April and several states hold primaries prior to the census.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Oh well...2020 is still a presidential election year, at least, so there's that.
IronLionZion
(45,601 posts)Tea party might drown us all in the bath tub
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Cha
(297,890 posts)And, all the other good news! Funny ol world.. all these states getting gop.. and then along comes Rhode Island and makes History with a Democratic Woman as Governor!:
Why President Obama supports Gina Raimondo..
sheshe2
(83,987 posts)She will do good for my sister state, Cha.
Cha
(297,890 posts)Stardust
(3,894 posts)sheshe2
(83,987 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Some days, I play all three parts. Riggs, his partner and the jumper. It's a busy life. Thanks, Sheshe.
sheshe2
(83,987 posts)Ya, I took a step back too after I posted this, freshwest. Perfect video addition.
You are welcome
jillan
(39,451 posts)But then they turn around a vote for people that won't give them a raise.... But it's a start!
Capt.Rocky300
(1,005 posts)The 22 Republican seats are mostly in hardcore red states......... just a couple that we might be able to flip. And Harry Reid is up in Nevada which could go badly for us.
This was updated just a hour or so ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2016
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)There's at least *some* good news tonight.
shireen
(8,333 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Nor did it reject "Liberals".
Hell, listening to Republicans giving victory speeches would give one the impression that it was a big win for the working class.
There were blue collar types who "believe in working for a living" and voted against "the food stamp party" or "the welfare party" or voted to stop the Negro Islamic army from stealing their guns and Bibles and making their daughters marry Mexicans.
You know,...Mexico,...that desert where Isis is running around in pickumup trucks and let's all thank Jesus H. Christ on a cracker for redneck Texas sheriffs on FOX "News".
C Moon
(12,225 posts)Awesome!
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)sheshe2
(83,987 posts)Janai S. Nelson @JNelsonLDF
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Black voters in Fayette GA elected first Af-Am ever to County Commission thanks to new district elections! @NAACP_LDF http://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/black-voters-participate-elections-equal-basis-first-time-history-fayette-county-georg
10:43 PM - 4 Nov 2014 Brooklyn, NY, United States
We may have lost some things, yet we gained some precious ones too. We keep moving forward Tuesday Afternoon.
Thanks
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)!!! Hell Yeah !!! !!! Hell Yeah !!!
angrychair
(8,749 posts)tarnished silver threads. Rethugs have 250 seats...historical is scope. It would take 2 VERY SUCCESSFUL election cycles to overcome it as a BEST CASE SCENARIO. of the 22 seats in 2016, almost all are in red states. Very little chance of serious gains. In short, we are looking at a decade or more of misery. This could put the dems out in the cold for a VERY LONG TIME.
I will likely never see a Dem majority again in my lifetime. We will likely be at boots-on-the-ground war in the Middle East in less than 12 months. Hell, we'll likely give the whole damn country to Putin in the next 12 months. They love him so much.
sheshe2
(83,987 posts)You have already ruled out wins in 2016.
And then you say this?????
So what exactly are you saying here, that Obama is going to start a war? WTF!
angrychair
(8,749 posts)doesn't change the fact that even if we won EVERY OPEN HOUSE SEAT in 2016, rethugs will still have a large majority. Doesn't change the reality that of the 22 rethug seats coming up in 2016, almost all of them are in solid red states. Best case is to hold any open Dem seats. Our chances of gains are very small.
31 Governor seats. We lost Maryland tonight. Dems hold only 15 state chief executive seats.
The comments you highlighted was my attempt at dark humor.
Not my point to huddle into a ball and cry and wail and cover my head in ash. My point is that we are at a VERY UGLY spot in history. We went from being on the rise in 2012 to being almost irrelevant in 2014. Not just irrelevant for an election cycle but likely for several. Congressional boundries will not likely be redrawn until 2022. We cannot assume that it would be anymore in our favor than the last one. State elections matter. Midterm elections matter. We didn't learn that lesson. We are going to learn the hard way how much it matters. I don't know all the answers but I am not foolish as to not realize we went from the frying pan to the fire.
Hekate
(90,930 posts)What a night.
sheshe2
(83,987 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)We got our collective asses kicked tonight. I just don't see any way to positively spin this.
Skittles
(153,254 posts)I have been sick of it for a long time
Skittles
(153,254 posts)sheshe2
(83,987 posts)From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you for such an overwhelming positive post.
Give me a fricking break! Oh ya, I know I am a stupid mindless person that you just felt the need to attack tonight. Wow I just see shiny objects. I am a person at the end of your keyboard. Don't trash me, I did nothing to you.
We had a loss tonight, yet all is not lost, if you wish to see it that way, go somewhere else.
This is a night that we should be pulling together. Ha. Not you~