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2010 aftermath: the Good.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 3rd, 2010 at 11:30 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

While this is hardly an exhaustive list, the below represents my personal congratulations to last night’s winners in the election:

FL-08 Daniel Webster
FL-22 Allen West
FL-24 Sandy Adams
IL-17 Bobby Schilling
IN-08 Larry Bucshon
IN-09 Todd Young
MI-01 Dan Benishek
MO-04 Vicky Hartzler
MS-04 Steven Palazzo
NC-02 Renee Ellmers
NY-13 Michael Grimm
NY-19 Nan Hayworth
NY-29 Tom Reed
PA-08 Michael Fitzpatrick
SC-01 Tim Scott
SD-AL Kristi Noem
TX-17 Bill Flores
VA-02 Scott Rigell
WI-07 Sean Duffy
FL-SEN Marco Rubio
PA-SEN Pat Toomey
UT-SEN Mike Lee
ME-GOV Paul LePage
SC-GOV Nikki Haley
TX-GOV Rick Perry
WI-GOV Scott Walker

It was great fun to do these interviews, no matter how painfully obvious it was at the time that I was essentially learning how to do them on the fly; and I look forward to doing it again.

Starting next week.

Moe Lane

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  • PaRep

    is a little fresher, Suns a Bit brighter & warmer, Pa. KICK D’s ARSE !!! Took Gov. Sen. House seats, Pa. House !!!! Bammy & the D’s Can your hear us Now??

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com IronDioPriest

    So I’d like to offer my own congrats to Chip Cravaak in MN-8. He unseated the pork-barrel house dinosaur Jim Oberstar against all odds in the Iron Range district.

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com IronDioPriest

    It seems to me that in all the discussion about “Tea Party” candidates upsetting the apple cart, the incredible win by Ron Johnson to unseat Russ Feingold in WI is not getting enough attention.

  • janelovesjesus

    Aren’t RNC donations down a bunch since they became the party of Scozzafava? How have candidate contributions shifted from thru RNC, RNCC, RNSC to direct to candidate or to Conservative PACs?

    And most importantly, what has the RNC learned?? And will they stop taking CONSERVATIVES including SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES for granted????

  • momo

    I was so down after the election until I discovered Redstate and it really helped me survive these 2 years. Today, I am excited about last night and know that with money, energy and a lot of work, we can do even better in 2012 and take back the white house. I plan to do a lot of volunteering locally to help us win!!!!

  • audax
  • darcdante

    Brown and Snowe got elected because they’re moderates. We need to elect Tea Partiers is safe states along the south and possibly the mountain regions or midwest; but we must also be pragmatic and realize that having Scott Brown in the Senate is a lot better than having another Kennedy clone. Running a Rand Paul or Ken Buck-like candidate won’t work there. Hell, it may not even work in Colorado. Dammit.

  • Darin_H

    Thanks go, in large part, to Marco Rubio for dragging Rick Scott across the finish line (Sink conceded about 2 hours ago) for FL-Gov!

    I do believe Marco was responsible for the GOP sweeping FL in the Red Wave last night. We won just about every race we could. Flipped several house seats, all the statewide races went R, and the FL house and senate both have 2/3rds Republicans now!!!

    Much like Texas the last few years, I’m looking for Florida to lead over the next 4+ years.

  • scorpio0679

    Absolutely. I think this one is the most resounding of all. It proves that conservative ideas can win when they are advocated by the right candidate. If we’d only had a Chip Cravaak running for senate in Delaware or Nevada.

  • scorpio0679

    Temper that enthusiasm because Amendments 4 & 5 passed (redistricting). I’ve been scouring the ‘net for any discussion of how they will affect the balance of power in the state but I can’t find anything. That 2/3 legislature very well may become far more competitive with “compact” and “fair” districts that follow “existing” georgraphical and political boundaries.

    That’s the bad news from Florida.

  • acat

    which means Halvorson (D-loser) won’t be returning to D.C. and Bean (D-loon) may be seeking new opportunities.

    Also, Schilling (R-IL-17) wins, meaning Hare (D-nuts) won’t be returning. Hopefully, Hare can get the help he clearly needs.

    Mew

  • gazill

    Boxer was elected again. Brown was elected (again). The bright voters here even voted to allow the state budget to be approved by a simple majority (completely neutering the few Republicans who get elected) while requiring 2/3 majority to increase fees….

  • IJB

    The fact is, we ran a mix of moderate and conservative candidates statewide in CA, and *none* of them won – not even Steve Cooley vs. Kamala Harris (which in virtually any other state would have been a slamdunk).

    That tells you everything you need to know.

    People are around here are in total ‘cocoon’ mode: in Deep Blue states, it’s not about “moderate vs. conservative” – it’s about Democrat vs. Republican, and THEY WILL CHOOSE THE DEMOCRAT *EVERY* TIME.

    We can play in Red States, and Purple States (ME is one of those) – but we should mostly forget about Blue States (e.g. CA, NY, MA, DE, etc.).

    I’ll say it right now – Scott Brown is likely to lose in two years, no matter what else happens.
    Deal with it.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    Every Republican list at state level, even the DA race. Swing race in CA-11 at the moment (before uncounted absentee and provisional) is 21 votes out of 162K votes for the Democrat against the concentrated Republican effort – in an R+1 district. 21 votes!!

    I’m not quite so upset about Prop 25 passing because that means the Democrats have full budget ownership – which means that can’t blame the Republican minority anymore.

    Don’t know if the Dems got 2/3rds in the legislature – if so it’s unlimited tax increases at that level, though the passage of Prop 26 (which expands the 2/3rds vote requirement on tax increase) should give them pause about raising taxes. Probably not more than 2 minutes, though, given how deaf the legislature is to the voters, as indicated by the generic voter approval numbers.

    Redistricting got fully turned over to the “Independent Commission” by a rousing vote against the Republican and Democratic party leaders and the labor unions – the one sign of sanity by voters – or rather a further indication of people’s lack of trust in the legislature, that they won’t let them do the redistricting.

    Don’t know how that will work out for the Republicans, but the legislature doing it would be certain annihilation for Republicans.

    But when the rubber hits the road at election time, everyone’s representative, of course, it the exception to the rule. It’s those other districts who have the bad legislators…

    In other words, the California voters want more government services but don’t want to pay the taxes for them. I guess they expect the Feds to bail them out, but hopefully the new Republican House can block that.

    Gotta love that 1-party rule.

  • momo

    100% reporting but still absentees to count Vidak(R) 1200 over Costa (D)

  • Castor

    THE UGLY….The margin of votes of Boxer over Fiorina, but is the glass half empty or half full? The house is ours and victories in the state legislature and governor?s races bode well for redistricting.

    As Winston Churchill said after the victory at El Alamein,”Now,this is not the end.It is not the beginning of the end. But it is,perhaps,the end of the beginning.”
    ON TO 2012!!!!!

  • retail1

    It was amendments #5 & 6. #4 did not pass, thank goodness.

  • JR11

    Hard to belive we are actually a blue state. Check out this map:

    http://www.foxnews.com/interactive/politics/election-map-2010/#race=racesInPlay&pres=false&state=il&tab=governor

    JR

  • JR11

    Hard to belive we are actually a blue state. Check out this map:

    http://www.foxnews.com/interactive/politics/election-map-2010/#race=racesInPlay&pres=false&state=il&tab=governor

    JR

  • IJB

    I’m still under the working assumption that the so-called “citizen’s commission” will annihilate all the Republican districts they possibly can in CA.

    The thing about the Legislature doing it is that they would actually focus on ‘incumbent protection’ over other considerations, which would probably work in our favor.

    OTOH, I suspect the “citizen’s commission” will be stacked with a bunch of Swing State Project-inspired “true believers” whose sole mission will be to wipe out as many CA Republicans districts as they possibly can (and they’ll ignore protecting incumbents in order to achieve this).

    I’d like to be proven wrong on this, but I’m pretty confident that ‘the fix is in’… :(

  • Darin_H

    Prop 4 failed, thankfully, but yes, the redistricting amendments passed. Which sucks, but we’ll see how it plays out I guess.

  • southernilpat

    We are a red state with a cancer on our upper lip. Shoulda let Cook County secede and form their own state in 1925 when they wanted to.

  • southernilpat

    I’ll be glad to get rid of Melissa Bean.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    But when one party has the governorship and virtually 2/3rds majority the both houses, you know you’re in deep trouble. Especially when they’d be in a position to go for a full partisan gerrymander that would probably lock in a permanent 2/3rds majority.

    But it’s all moot, the public spoke with a clear voice

    And in this case, we had one of the few rebellions of voters against the Democratic party leadership – and against the unions, all of whom wanted to abolish the commission and return everything to the legislature.

    And the reason is that the legislature, generically, is much less popular then even Republicans and people just couldn’t stomach giving them reapportionment. In fact they gave even more power to the commission by adding Federal congressional districts to their platter.

    So we’ll just to see what happens, but at least it’ll be a different ballgame.

  • SoFiMil

    While Republican House and Senate candidates both did fantastic, contrary to much of the commentary out there, the numbers show the tidal wave was bigger for Republican Senators was than for House members.

    Senate (with Republican win in AK,, and Democrat wins in WA and CO)
    Republicans took over 6 of 19 Democrat Senate seats = 31.2%
    Republicans won 18 of 31 total Senate seats = 58.1%

    House (with Republicans winning 245 seats)
    Republicans took over 62 of 255 Democrat seats = 24.3%
    Republicans won 245 of 435 total House seats = 56.3%