The Official Election Results Victory Thread!!

• ManO'War

  

  My most satisfying result was the Toomey win in Pa (where I work), since the teacher's union ran non stop ads about him that were blantant lies and half-truths. I'm glad they waisted all that money.
• QuakerOats

  ManO'War;543566 wrote:My most satisfying result was the Toomey win in Pa (where I work), since the teacher's union ran non stop ads about him that were blantant lies and half-truths. I'm glad they waisted all that money.

  
  Agree. Gotta love the fact that obama and biden came to OH and PA at least 30 times, and all their buddies got whipped. Classic.
• BGFalcons82

  

  HitsRus;543469 wrote:...which is what swept the Dems into power two years ago....People were fed up with Bush, it was not a mandate for an ultra liberal agenda.
  
  Yesterday was great victory for the individual (vs. the State). People pushed back against the power grab perpetrated by both parties the past 6 years.
  
  The fight is not over. It is the opening shot. The tentacles of government dependence have invaded deep into the American fabric. We must be steadfast in resisting the creeping stranglehold of over-dependence on government.
  It is the resilience of the empowered individual which gives America her strength.... self reliant individuals making their own decisions, taking responsibility for their actions, and reaping the rewards or the consequences of those actions. That is what freedom is, and that is what is embodied in the Constitution by our founders. They did not envision a government that entraps and ensnares people in a web of dependency. They did not envision a government who takes the people's hard earned money and 'cares' for them from cradle to grave according to an academic elitist's formula. No one can make decsions for the individual better than the individual himself. That is what FREEDOM is. That is what has always given us our strength. That is what we must persevere for. Complacent we dare not be.
  
  Let yesterday's victory be a start. Let it be a gauntlet thrown down. Let it be the day when American's started to take back their government.

  
  You took the words out of my mouth, hits. Let's hope Barry gets it.
  
  Remember the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom movie where Indy drank the blood and became a zombie? He, and the others that drank the grool, became singularly focused and would not listen to others and play nice....all they wanted to do was work tirelessly for their punk king and kill people. When the young boy burned Indy with a torch, he came out of it. Hopefully, last night was the torch on Barry...but I think he's too arrogant and narcissistic to change one thing....remember he wants his "enemies" to ride in the back.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  BGFalcons82;543590 wrote:You took the words out of my mouth, hits. Let's hope Barry gets it.
  
  Remember the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom movie where Indy drank the blood and became a zombie? He, and the others that drank the grool, became singularly focused and would not listen to others and play nice....all they wanted to do was work tirelessly for their punk king and kill people. When the young boy burned Indy with a torch, he came out of it. Hopefully, last night was the torch on Barry...but I think he's too arrogant and narcissistic to change one thing....remember he wants his "enemies" to ride in the back.

  
  Hahah, love the reference.
• jhay78

  

  IggyPride00;543220 wrote:Fox News has called Nevada for Dingey Harry.
  
  That is 2 seats the Tea Party has cost the Republican party by nominating bat shit crazy nominees (Delaware & Nevada) when more establishment types would have won those races for sure. It is looking like those 2 seats may be the difference between Democrats retaining control and Mitch McConnell being majority leader with all the power that comes with it.
  
  I am not a RINO lover, but better to be in the majority and deal with a RINO or 2 than be stuck in the minority where you don't control the agenda or committees.

  I'll agree with most of that, but as a primary voter, you can't have that mentality ahead of time. Do it enough times, and you get RINO's like Susan Collins, etc.
  

  IggyPride00;543338 wrote:He and Dick Durbin will probably battle it out, even though it is probably a temporary position until the remaining Democrats are washed out of power in 2012 (as many who were elected in the 06 wave will be prime targets).
  
  If anyone wants to see something comical, go over the the Daily Kos where the liberals who had convinced themselves before today the polls were wrong and it wouldn't be that bad are nearly suicidal right now that reality is here.

  
  Sherrod Brown is at the top of my list. I'm already saving up to donate to his opponent, even if it's Mickey Mouse.
  

  ManO'War;543566 wrote:My most satisfying result was the Toomey win in Pa (where I work), since the teacher's union ran non stop ads about him that were blantant lies and half-truths. I'm glad they waisted all that money.

  
  If I had a dollar for every lying, fabricated, half-true SEIU, AFSCME, and AFL-CIO ad I saw the past two months, I would be rich and could probably run against Sherrod Brown
• jhay78

  

  Check out the NYT election map:
  
  http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/house
  
  Very beautiful, and very RED.
• I Wear Pants

  Writerbuckeye;543517 wrote:I guarantee you there will be no words from Kasich's mouth saying, "I am the one you have been waiting for" or tons of photos with him positioned so he has a halo around his head (which we've seen time and again with obama).
  
  Unlike Dems and the MSM, we don't deify men and women who have been elected to represent the people, like they have with Obama, JFK, and FDR, to name the most prominent ones that have received that treatment.

  
  I think most of the pictures with halos and stuff actually came from Republicans.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  jhay78;543655 wrote:Check out the NYT election map:
  
  http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/house
  
  Very beautiful, and very RED.

  However, if you go by population, notice many of the urban areas are still blue. It looks red, but population wise, the country is still purple/ redish.
  Here is the 2008 map for example. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
• BGFalcons82

  

  ptown_trojans_1;543679 wrote:However, if you go by population, notice many of the urban areas are still blue. It looks red, but population wise, the country is still purple/ redish.
  Here is the 2008 map for example. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

  
  Why is this? Why has it been this way for the past 30 years or so? People forget that Reagan was the conservative governor of.....California. How in the hell did THAT ever happen?
  
  To me, this is the tragedy in America. The urban areas are flush with those that believe the government is the holder of all answers, the supplier of all things needed to survive, and home of entitlements. The suburban and farm areas are the bastion of the individual and liberty-loving Americans. People in the urban areas want more government and everyone else wants less of it. How did we get here? Why are there 2 totally opposite views of America from people that live only a few miles apart? I don't propose to have the answers, but to me, unless this chasm is filled or bridged, it may end up being as devisive as the Civil War was 150 years ago.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  The White House reporters are riding President Obama hard. For once.
  How is that even happening? LOL!!!
  
  His answers are decent, I'll give him that. I might even be swayed a little bit if he follows through
• QuakerOats

  BGFalcons82;543590 wrote:You took the words out of my mouth, hits. Let's hope Barry gets it.

  He DOESN'T get it! He is on the radio right now and the questions posed are pointed about voters repudiating his policies, and he is basically saying that we haven't done enough of his stuff so we can't see the results yet. He is so radical-left that he will not acknowledge the massive voice of the American people who just spoke loud and clear.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  QuakerOats;543726 wrote:He DOESN'T get it! He is on the radio right now and the questions posed are pointed about voters repudiating his policies, and he is basically saying that we haven't done enough of his stuff so we can't see the results yet. He is so radical-left that he will not acknowledge the massive voice of the American people who just spoke loud and clear.

  BUT,
  
  He's also admitted to the fact that he ran against earmarks, and in his and the democrat party's hurry to pass all that legislation, he signed alot of bills that were full of earmarks. He openly acknowledged this. He took the blame.
  He accepted some other hits too and acknowledged the fact that he needs to improve in several different areas.
  
  Listen, I'm not fan of Obama's, and I'm not trying to contradict you out of total fairness to him, but real honesty starts with us, doesn't it? And, it wouldn't be honest if we didn't, at the very least, admit that he has said those things.
  
  ALSO, like I said earlier, we also need to wait and see if he actually fulfulls. We shouldn't blindly believe whatever he is saying right now. But, conversely, he's also taking that very first step of admitting his mistakes.
  
  Right is right. And cherry picking at this point is self-defeating.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  "For the first time, in my adult life, I'm proud of something that President Obama has said"
• Bigdogg

  I am going to set back and eat some popcorn while I watch not a dam thing change except taxes will go up (most likely Washington shifts it to the states, the state shifts it to the local government) and the middle class gets screwed. As J.T. Barnum once said, there's a sucker born every minute.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Bigdogg;543783 wrote:I am going to set back and eat some popcorn while I watch not a dam thing change except taxes will go up (most likely Washington shifts it to the states, the state shifts it to the local government) and the middle class gets screwed. As J.T. Barnum once said, there's a sucker born every minute.

  
  That and SS, Medicare and Medicaid continue to bloat the federal budget and debt.
  I have zero faith in the domestic agenda of either party right now.
• IggyPride00

  

  Nice to see the Federal Reserve just thumb their nose in the face of the American people by announcing they plan on firing up the printing presses to create another $600 billion in stimulus over the next 8 months.
  
  Have to love when a bunch of unelected bankers with no accountability to the American people able to debase our currency like that.
  
  It would be nice to see some outrage, but I am not holding my breath.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  BGFalcons82;543711 wrote:Why is this? Why has it been this way for the past 30 years or so? People forget that Reagan was the conservative governor of.....California. How in the hell did THAT ever happen?
  
  To me, this is the tragedy in America. The urban areas are flush with those that believe the government is the holder of all answers, the supplier of all things needed to survive, and home of entitlements. The suburban and farm areas are the bastion of the individual and liberty-loving Americans. People in the urban areas want more government and everyone else wants less of it. How did we get here? Why are there 2 totally opposite views of America from people that live only a few miles apart? I don't propose to have the answers, but to me, unless this chasm is filled or bridged, it may end up being as devisive as the Civil War was 150 years ago.

  
  Too simplistic. Reagan won in California just like Nixon, utilizing the large libertarian and conservative areas around LA, San Diego and Orange County.
  
  I also would be careful to throw all people that live in cities or all people that live in the country into those categories. Yes, most cities are blue, but that does not mean everyone in the city wants more government of believes government has all the answers.
• QuakerOats

  IggyPride00;543808 wrote:Nice to see the Federal Reserve just thumb their nose in the face of the American people by announcing they plan on firing up the printing presses to create another $600 billion in stimulus over the next 8 months.
  
  Have to love when a bunch of unelected bankers with no accountability to the American people able to debase our currency like that.
  
  It would be nice to see some outrage, but I am not holding my breath.

  Agreed.
• derek bomar

  

  IggyPride00;543808 wrote:Nice to see the Federal Reserve just thumb their nose in the face of the American people by announcing they plan on firing up the printing presses to create another $600 billion in stimulus over the next 8 months.
  
  Have to love when a bunch of unelected bankers with no accountability to the American people able to debase our currency like that.
  
  It would be nice to see some outrage, but I am not holding my breath.

  
  So you're not a believer in quantitative easing?
• Ty Webb

  

  What you saw today was the start of his re-election campaign
• IggyPride00

  

  People forget that Reagan was the conservative governor of.....California. How in the hell did THAT ever happen?

  If Reagan were alive and governing today he would be considered a RINO by today's standards of what a Conservative is, much the same way Nixon would be.
  
  That is how a "Conservative" was able to govern California.
• IggyPride00

  

  So you're not a believer in quantitative easing?

  No, I don't believe in America doing their best impersonation of Zimbabwe. I know Bernanke's nickname is "Helicopter Ben" and all, but history has shown us that just printing more money leads to no good.
• BGFalcons82

  

  ptown_trojans_1;543809 wrote:Too simplistic. Reagan won in California just like Nixon, utilizing the large libertarian and conservative areas around LA, San Diego and Orange County.
  
  I also would be careful to throw all people that live in cities or all people that live in the country into those categories. Yes, most cities are blue, but that does not mean everyone in the city wants more government of believes government has all the answers.

  
  Maybe too simple, but all I'm doing is asking questions. There are no large libertarian and conservative areas anymore in California. Hell...those looney tunes elected more liberal politicians to try to fix the problems that liberal policies created. Their vortex of failure is winding up faster today. It's only a matter of when they implode, not if.
  
  Certainly there isn't 100% blue nor 100% red areas. But...they aren't 51-49 neither. My hunch is that the divide is getting greater. Look at how Kasich did in Delaware County 66 to 32 vs. Strickland in Cuyahoga County - 60 to 36 for Ted. My point is that I see it as a problem that could ultimately test our nation.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  IggyPride00;543823 wrote:No, I don't believe in America doing their best impersonation of Zimbabwe. I know Bernanke's nickname is "Helicopter Ben" and all, but history has shown us that just printing more money leads to no good.

  
  However, the worry is deflation not inflation. At least in all my monetary policy readings.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  I Wear Pants;543667 wrote:I think most of the pictures with halos and stuff actually came from Republicans.

  
  Silly and an wrong. Or were you being sarcastic?
  
  In any case, the best known came from Reuters, Time and Rolling Stone Magazine. None of those are Republican in any way, shape or form.