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2010 Midterm Results Discussion

Damn... John Boehner pulled a Glenn Beck... The man's fighting back the tears.
 
digsbe said:
I think Boehner is being very sincere. His speech was wonderful in my opinion.
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Meh. The fact that he was crying doesn't make him sincere. I understand that he's happy that he's going to be Speaker, and I don't fault him for showing some emotion. But the actual content of his speech did NOT strike a very conciliatory tone IMO.
 
Kandahar said:
Reid has a fairly commanding lead. 52-44%, with over half of the precincts reporting. It's not entirely impossible for Sharron Angle to come back, but I'd say that the odds are very strongly against her.
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Where are those numbers from. I got 10 % precincts reported.
 
Kandahar said:
Nevada is looking very, very good for Harry Reid. Michael Bennett is holding on to a respectable lead in Colorado as well.
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So far, the two heavy Dem counties are reporting, many red counties have not - numbers may be misleading.
 
Well never mind, they just showed it on TV. The gap is almost too big to believe.
 
Kandahar said:
Meh. The fact that he was crying doesn't make him sincere. I understand that he's happy that he's going to be Speaker, and I don't fault him for showing some emotion. But the actual content of his speech did NOT strike a very conciliatory tone IMO.
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he wasn't elected to compromise with Obama
 
Redress said:
Well never mind, they just showed it on TV. The gap is almost too big to believe.
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I would imagine that it will narrow somewhat. But probably not enough for Sharron Angle to pull out a victory.
 
TurtleDude said:
he wasn't elected to compromise with Obama
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Really? What makes you think that the voters of the United States have suddenly become militant conservatives just because YOU are? I would imagine that most voters want Congress and the President to work TOGETHER.

It's fine if YOU want to be militant; you're just some guy on an internet forum. But John Boehner is now the Speaker of the House. I think he should have sounded a very different tone than he did.
 
Let's calm it down just a bit please.
 
Ohio Governor's race still too close to call since dem precincts are slow in reporting

however, it appears the GOP is going to win every other state wide race

the two supreme court slots are solidly GOP with AJ Maureen Oconnor beating the man Strickland appointed as CJ after CJ Moyer died in office

Richard Cordray-endorsed by every paper and every major LE group (I gave him several hundred) is losing to RINO and former Senator Mike DeWhiner-a f'ng disgrace IMHO

David Pepper-also endorsed by every major paper-son of PG Former CEO JOhn Pepper (David's a moderate dem with lots of country club GOP support-he went to cincy's best prep school (same one Portman-senator elect) went to as well as Yale and Yale Law is losing to Yost.
 
Redress said:
Prop 19 looks to have failed.
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then the privately owned prisons can continue to be filled and thowing off profits. another victory for capitalism [/s]
 
I'm still amazed Schilling beat Hare in my district.

28 years of democratic control in what has to be one of the most gerrymandered districts in the union (outside of Barney Franks district).

Obama can't like what Illinois is saying tonight.
 
AP is calling Ohio for Kasich.
 
Kandahar said:
Really? What makes you think that the voters of the United States have suddenly become militant conservatives just because YOU are? I would imagine that most voters want Congress and the President to work TOGETHER.

It's fine if YOU want to be militant; you're just some guy on an internet forum. But John Boehner is now the Speaker of the House. I think he should have sounded a very different tone than he did.
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I don't want to be militant, but make no mistake, we aren't looking for a bunch of compomise.

I see 2010 just the beginning. 2 more years, we pick up where we left off.

The democrats took office behind anti war sentiment. They could care less about being anti-war though.
 
Kandahar said:
Really? What makes you think that the voters of the United States have suddenly become militant conservatives just because YOU are? I would imagine that most voters want Congress and the President to work TOGETHER.

It's fine if YOU want to be militant; you're just some guy on an internet forum. But John Boehner is now the Speaker of the House. I think he should have sounded a very different tone than he did.
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I think those that are voting in the Republicans in the house right now wants their people to find the common ground with Obama on things they can, but doesn't want them to just go along with the President with token compromises or compromise on principles that were the BASIS for their vote just for the sake of compromise.

If they "compromise" and do another stimulus, that's not what people are saying with this vote imho. If they "compromise" and keep the health care bill in place that's not what these people are saying with this vote imho. If they "compromise" and do away with the Bush Tax cuts right now that's not what these votes are saying right now. If they "compromise" and enact Cap and Trade that's a bit more hampered than Obama would like that is not what the people voting them in want. If they "compromise" and give amnesty to illegals before showing legitimate and long lasting securing and enforcement of immigration laws that's not what these people are saying with this vote.

Do they want this congress to work with the president? Yes. They want them to work with them to get things passed that they are saying they want in regards to the things that these republicans campaign on, but on things they campaigned AGAINST they want them to work against those things not "compromise" to make those things happen.

I agree, Republicans need to come into this saying they want to work together...the tone to take with this though is wanting to "work together" to fix the things the public is upset with by removing them/stopping them and starting anew, and to "work together" to implement the things that the two can find common ground on.

If they go in and "compromise" by not trying to remove this health care plan, allowing a watered down cap and trade to be passed, allow a path to citizenship without tangible security and enforcement happening, compromise in more stimulus type spending, compromise in raising taxes or letting tax cuts go away then they're going to be "compromised" out of office come the next primaries.
 
TurtleDude said:
Ohio Governor's race still too close to call since dem precincts are slow in reporting

however, it appears the GOP is going to win every other state wide race

the two supreme court slots are solidly GOP with AJ Maureen Oconnor beating the man Strickland appointed as CJ after CJ Moyer died in office

Richard Cordray-endorsed by every paper and every major LE group (I gave him several hundred) is losing to RINO and former Senator Mike DeWhiner-a f'ng disgrace IMHO

David Pepper-also endorsed by every major paper-son of PG Former CEO JOhn Pepper (David's a moderate dem with lots of country club GOP support-he went to cincy's best prep school (same one Portman-senator elect) went to as well as Yale and Yale Law is losing to Yost.
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Ohio was just called for Kasich and I couldn't be happier. I grew up in Ohio and it was depressing to go back there the last couple years and see the malaise, high unemployment, and so many discouraged people. It is great to see Ohio returning to conservative values and talk about a repudiation of Obama. How many times did he visit Ohio to try and pull this out for Strickland? Should be an interesting press conference tomorrow.

Happy to see Cincinnati results as well as that is really home.
 
Inouye in Hawaii
 
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