This is not quite the disaster that everyone thinks, but the media has to portray it that way so they can continue to scare their customers into staying tuned.
And continue getting delivered to the advertisers.
Two things contributed almost automatically to the dem disaster: after six years of a presidential term his party almost always gets clobbered and there were a lot more dems up this year in the senate and Max Baucus retired. In 2016, when dem turnout will be up, there are a lot more republicans up.
The Pied Piper was fresh out of new charms and was a detriment to his fellow party members in Congress.
Some interesting facts from Texas,. I checked a few counties I used to live in to see what happened. When I lived in Lubbock Kent Hance was the dem senator from there.The year after I left there he stomped W in a race for an open congressional seat. Yesterday the top dem vote getter in any Lubbock county race was Wendy Davis, who got 22% of the vote.
In Potter County, the northern half of Amarillo, she got 21% and in the southern part, Randall County, she got 12%. In all those counties she led the ticket,
That is pretty awesome.
In Nueces County, Corpus Christi, no dem won a contested race, Not one.
Texas is a majority minority state but 66% of the voters were anglos and we voted over 70% republican,
Hispanics, once again, did not turn out,. It is just anecdotal but based on my observation of about 30 years of one large hispanic extended family, it looks to me like the more they move into the middle class and own their own homes, etc., the more they vote republican. The abortion thing does not help dems at all in this respect.
Also, the idea that new citizens from the south are going to be automatic dems is misleading in my opinion. Mexicans don't like their government and think voting is a joke and I see little to suggest they will think different once they get the ballot here.
Finally, just a a lark, I was thinking about what my party might do to become relevant in midterm elections again, The only thing I could think of was to get Troy Aikman to run for governor as a democrat,
The Texas Observer had two headlines on its online edition this morning that I thought dove tailed nicely, One said there were more LGBT candidates than any time in history and the other said the dems got wiped out.
I suspect there was a connection in there somewhere.
Maybe if the LGBT candidates could be induced to run as republicans..................
And continue getting delivered to the advertisers.
Two things contributed almost automatically to the dem disaster: after six years of a presidential term his party almost always gets clobbered and there were a lot more dems up this year in the senate and Max Baucus retired. In 2016, when dem turnout will be up, there are a lot more republicans up.
The Pied Piper was fresh out of new charms and was a detriment to his fellow party members in Congress.
Some interesting facts from Texas,. I checked a few counties I used to live in to see what happened. When I lived in Lubbock Kent Hance was the dem senator from there.The year after I left there he stomped W in a race for an open congressional seat. Yesterday the top dem vote getter in any Lubbock county race was Wendy Davis, who got 22% of the vote.
In Potter County, the northern half of Amarillo, she got 21% and in the southern part, Randall County, she got 12%. In all those counties she led the ticket,
That is pretty awesome.
In Nueces County, Corpus Christi, no dem won a contested race, Not one.
Texas is a majority minority state but 66% of the voters were anglos and we voted over 70% republican,
Hispanics, once again, did not turn out,. It is just anecdotal but based on my observation of about 30 years of one large hispanic extended family, it looks to me like the more they move into the middle class and own their own homes, etc., the more they vote republican. The abortion thing does not help dems at all in this respect.
Also, the idea that new citizens from the south are going to be automatic dems is misleading in my opinion. Mexicans don't like their government and think voting is a joke and I see little to suggest they will think different once they get the ballot here.
Finally, just a a lark, I was thinking about what my party might do to become relevant in midterm elections again, The only thing I could think of was to get Troy Aikman to run for governor as a democrat,
The Texas Observer had two headlines on its online edition this morning that I thought dove tailed nicely, One said there were more LGBT candidates than any time in history and the other said the dems got wiped out.
I suspect there was a connection in there somewhere.
Maybe if the LGBT candidates could be induced to run as republicans..................
