The Republicans get a A- for last night. A total review

The positives......

They won 60 or so seats in the House which is historic! That is the most since WW2. More than most anyone predicted up until the last week.

They won several close race huge Governorships in Ohio, Michigan, Penn, and Florida where redistricting is going to be huge and help keep those Republican House seats for the next 10 years.

They picked up at least 6 seats in the Senate when the average for an off year election is 3 1/2 Senate seats so they are above average.

They took Pelosi out of power


The negatives.......

They lost about 10 very close House races so it could have even been better in the house.

There are still about 5 Governor races too close to call and it looks like we may lose 3 of those. And Minnesota and Illinois are going to be loses by less than 10,000 votes out of millions. Those would have been nice to have but they are very blue states.

The Senate did not do quite as well as expected. Most predicted a pick up of 8 and we only got 6. The two very disappointing loses were Buck in Colorado and Reid in Nevada.

We left Reid in charge of the Senate.


The silver lining.......

This was the worst case scenario for Obama. All dems were saying it last night. If he was going to lose the House then it would have been better for him to lose the Senate too so if the economy stays down, he could blame the R's and use that for his campaign. But he still has the White House and the Senate and Reid is still in charge. The Republicans will now pass the will of the people in the House, which is tax cuts for all and fixing the Health care bill by repealing it and trying to save a trillion dollars. Then they will pass what Americans want like no pre-existing conditions declined, accross state line competition, and LOWERING our health insurance costs rather than raising them, and the other important parts of the health care we need fixed. Then it will be up to Reid and Obama to jump on board or thwart the will of the people again which will cost them dearly in 2012.

Many things that all the polls show that the Americans want will be passed int he House by the Republicans. Then it will go back to Reid in the Senate and he will fight it and make the Dems look like the party of 'no'. And even if a few things get through, then Obama will either have to veto the will of the people, or give in to it and the Republican party. He is stuck between a rock and a hard place now. No longer can they stifle the Republican ideas and kill them in committee and tell American that they have no ideas. The ideas will be seen by all Americans and they will see that is exactly what they want accomplished. So now it will will be out in the open to see if the Dems in the Senate and/or Obama will stop what the people really want. They can no longer lie saying the R's don't have any ideas.

So, either Obama approves the will of the people, which will tick off the left, or he vetoes, which will tick off the independents. Either way it makes for a very tough election for him in 2012.

And either Reid jumps on board the will of the people and passes the bills the House passes which will be what Americans voted for, or he fights it and becomes the party of 'no' towards what Americans want, in which case the R's pick up many more Senate seats in 2012 when the Dems have to defend twice as many seats.


Overall.....

Overall, it was a historic night for the House and Republicans. But we left a few on the table. And the same in the Governorships. We won the most imortant close ones in Ohio, Penn, Michigan, and Florida but we lost a couple close ones that we could have had huge upsets in. And the Senate was still a great night with 6 pickups but we should not have let Colorado and Nevada go. But I like Reid in control more that I would have liked Schumer had Reid lost. He will keep driving the Dems into the ditch with his arrogance.

So they could have pulled off an A with a few more wins but they still get a B for the historic victory.

The Right peaked too early and made some poor choices in primaries including O'Donnell & Maes.

SS109 wrote: The Right peaked too early and made some poor choices in primaries including O'Donnell & Maes.

Agreed, but they had a poll out that showed that even if they would have icked Casttle over O'Donnell, last night Coons would have still beat the liberal conservative, so I am proud that we, the Repulicans and Tea Party voted out the status quo rather than the Dems voting him out.

And people in Colorado have got to come up with better candidates on both sides. Colorado was one of those states where they held their noses and picked who they thought was the least worse candidate rather than someone they could be proud of. I don't know what happened to Colorado over the last decade, but we really don't turn out a lot of good people we can be proud of in our Government.

Yep. Thanks to the Tea Party's, Republicans didn't take control of the Senate.

Pineguy wrote: Yep. Thanks to the Tea Party's, Republicans didn't take control of the Senate.

That's a good thing...if gives the Republicans the opportunity reveal the true colors of the Democrats in the Senate and White House for the next cycle.

Remember, ALL FUNDING BILLS start in the house and not in the senate.

How interesting that the day after enormous wins they are still working on ways to blame democrats for what happens in the future. That is one of my biggest problems with republicans, they don’t take responsibility for anything. They just blame democrats, even in advance.

archer wrote: How interesting that the day after enormous wins they are still working on ways to blame democrats for what happens in the future. That is one of my biggest problems with republicans, they don’t take responsibility for anything. They just blame democrats, even in advance.

Yea, we blame BUSH.....for Nancy and Harry.

Rasmussen released a poll yesterday that shows most likely voters are expecting big disappointments from the House Republicans by 2012. So it will probably flip once again, unless the Republicans can actually show leadership to the country, which based on past performance is highly unlikely.

This election was more about voting incumbents out rather than excitement for the Republicans.

Pineguy wrote: Yep. Thanks to the Tea Party's, Republicans didn't take control of the Senate.

You know that random statement doesn't hold water. What seats would the R's have won without the Tea Party? Deleware? Maybe and maybe Nevada. But they needed 4 more wins. So that is crap. And Rand Paul held Kentucky thanks to the Tea Party and Johnson in Wisconsin took out a sure lock for the Dems in Feingold. And we now have one of the most outstanding Senators that has the chance to be President because the Tea Party voted out Crist and voted in Rubio! So all in all it was about a wash in the Senate if not a net gain of one. But the House gained huge becuase of the Tea Party.

So that tamdom statement trying to once again cut down the ta party with no facts doesn't hold water.

Actually, the Republicans would have probably beaten Bennett with Norton instead of the Tea Party favorite Buck.

And if the Tea Party had not backed Maes, what would have happened?