Susan Ferrechio - GOP rides historic wave to take House
Call it a tsunami, a wave, a major thumping at the polls. The electorate on Tuesday showed its displeasure with a mostly Democratic Congress, voting out the party's incumbents in historic numbers and handing the Republicans control over the House of Representatives again just four years after they lost it. By late Tuesday night, Republicans had picked up enough seats across the country to declare themselves the new House majority and GOP leaders promised to heed the message voters seemed to be sending about their discontent with the current direction of the government.
Byron York - Nevada voters don't want Harry Reid, re-elect him anyway
It's long been common knowledge here that many, many Nevadans don't like their senior senator. What Tuesday's exit polls showed was that their feelings go well beyond simple dislike. And yet, if the exit polls are correct, a significant number of people voted to re-elect a man they think isn't doing a good job and who has stayed too long in the Senate. In the end, Reid won 50.2 percent of the vote to Republican challenger Sharron Angle's 44.6 percent. It would be hard to find a more telling measure of Angle's deficiencies as a candidate or the devastating effectiveness of Reid's scorched-earth negative campaign against her. Funded by millions of dollars from public-sector unions, Reid relentlessly attacked Angle from the moment she won the GOP nomination. Many of the earliest attacks went unanswered, forming impressions of Angle so negative that they outweighed the voters' negative opinion of Reid.
Michael Barone - Some random thoughts on the 2010 elections
As I write, the House results indicate that Republicans have gained a net 61 seats (64 gains minus 3 losses) and are leading in 6 races currently undecided and trailing closely in 6 other races currently undecided. So the Republican net gain will be something like 67 seats—more than any party has won in any single election since 1948 (my Examiner column actually looks at the big seat gains for the Republicans in 1946 and the Democrats in 1948). The upshot is that Speaker-to-be John Boehner will have a workable House majority, larger than the Republicans had during the 12 years they controlled the House from 1994 to 2006, larger than Republicans have enjoyed since the 80th Congress elected in 1946 which enacted laws which resulted in enduring public policies in 1947 and 1948.
So why didn’t Republicans do better in the Senate races? That’s a natural question, though as I write it appears that Republicans gained 6 Senate seats—in ND, AR, IN, WI, PA and IL—and may still prevail in CO and WA. In most years gaining 6 to 8 Senate seats would be a great victory; this year it seems somewhat less so, because more seemed possible.
One reason is that Republicans had less than optimal candidates in some significant races. Mainstream media will claim that this is because tea party wacko candidates weakened Republicans’ chances. There is something to that, though not as much as MSM would like to think.
David Sherfinski - Va. Democrats Perriello, Nye, Boucher fall in re-election bids
Freshman Democratic Reps. Tom Perriello and Glenn Nye -- as well as longtime incumbent Rep. Rick Boucher -- all lost re-election bids Tuesday, as Virginia played a major role in shifting the U.S. House from Democrat to Republican control. Perriello and Nye were widely considered to be among the most vulnerable House Democrats up for re-election Tuesday. But the defeat of Boucher, a 14-term congressman from southwest Virginia, by the state House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith represented a major coup for Virginia Republicans. For Perriello, whose race was among the most closely watched in the country, defeat was less of a surprise.
Californians buck GOP surge, stick with Democrats
Democrats proved resilient in California by taking the governor's seat, returning a liberal for a fourth U.S. Senate term and approving a constitutional amendment that should make it easier to pass a budget. While Republicans wrested control of the House and at least seven governorships from Democrats, Californians rejected first-time bids by two wealthy Republican businesswomen from Silicon Valley who sought to restrain government spending. In doing so, they stuck with the state's majority party in most statewide and legislative posts.
Environmentally conscious residents also rejected an effort to suspend the state's greenhouse gas emissions law despite suggestions it would kill jobs. Voters, however, said "no" to legalizing marijuana for recreational use despite the pitch that it would generate more tax revenues.
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