The United States 2010 Mid-Term Elections Page 2

Started by Netto Azure October 14th, 2010 10:05 PM
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Exactly. Get ready for the gridlock.
And nothing will get done with the Gridlock in effect. Landmark legislation almost never gets passed in a divided congress. So you can kiss any sweeping reform goodbye.
The three partisan statewide races have been declared won by the Republican candidates, all with 75% of precincts reporting.
They have also declared Young and Kelly winners of the state Supreme Court race, with 73% precincts reporting.

Proposal 1 is losing 66 to 34, with 2 winning by 3/4, with 74% and 73% of precincts reporting, respectively.

Candice Miller wins re-election to Michigan's 10th Congressional seat, with 72% of the vote and 79% precincts reporting.

The heavily contested race in the 1st Congressional District has been won by Republican Dan Benishek, with 52% of the vote and 92% precincts reporting. This seat is "open" as Bart Stupak (D) retired after constituent backlash for voting for health care reform.

The Lapeer County Parks and Rec millage appears to be a loss, 56% to 44%, with 36% of precincts reporting.

Cheryl Clark has won the Lapeer County Commissioner 1st District seat, by a extremely slim margin-1,998 votes vs. Republican challenger Randy St. Laurent's 1,974, with all precincts reported.

82nd District State Representative Kevin Daley has won re-election over Democrat Mark Monson, 71% to 29%, with 78% precincts reporting. Also it appears Phil Pavlov has won the State Senate 25th District seat over Democrat John Nugent, 66% to 34%, with 85% of precincts reporting.

It appears the Republicans have taken back the majority in the Congressional House. They have gained just 4 seats in the Senate so far, not enough to regain majority there.

I'll have more updates and an analysis/commentary later on Wednesday.
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well good, because if prop 23 doesn't pass (...unfortunetly it looks that way) my dad's job could be potentially lost. And i can't believe people would think Jerry Brown would do a better job now than he would when he was last elected governor. I mean...he said after his last term he had been lying when he said he had a plan for California. I don't see the logic for voting for him.


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Then again, Democrats will use the filibuster on anything the Republican House will pass lol. And the President still has the Veto to stab things lol.
Uh Filibusters only occur in the Senate as the house is too big for them to do fillibusters, seems like I still remember my Ap gov stuff :)
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lol did you know what Barbra Boxer did? I can't believe it. Isn't this ILLEGAL?

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/10/27/babs-boxer-tries-to-recruit-kiddie-campaigners-in-l-a-public-schools/

I would rather call her ma'am. Just to infuriate her.
Petraeus, had he lacked his mass amounts of tact, should have told her to either sit down and shut up, or join the military for a real title.

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I'm please with the results of this election (at the national level, at least). The GOP now controls the House, and they can cause gridlock in Congress by filibustering the Senate Democrats; and can probably pass some stuff if they can persuade some Blue Dog Democrats. On amending the health care bill, if Obama and the remaining Congressional Democrats knows what's good for them, they'll compromise. The Senate GOP should be able to find some Democrats worried about 2012 into voting with them. The only way I see the Democrats making any sort of comeback in 2012 is by compromising with the GOP.

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Uh Filibusters only occur in the Senate as the house is too big for them to do fillibusters, seems like I still remember my Ap gov stuff :)
Threats of filibusters are enough to kill bills you know. 8)

And that's the main reason I am sad, no major legislation will pass in this session of Congress. Maybe extension of Bush-era Tax Cuts and continuing passage of essential bills for defense and regular expenditures. But that's it. Otherwise prepare for Clinton-era Government Shutdowns with no new budget. :/

Jerry Brown just won the Governorship and Barbara Boxer in the US Senate in California.

Jane Harman of the 36th District just handily won re-election. (I was pollworking most of the guys in my District are DEMS n_n)

California Proposition Projections:

19: No
20: Yes
21: No
22: Yes
23: NO!!!
24: No
25: Yes
26: Yes
27: No

But yeah Republican House, Democrat Senate.

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The GOP now controls the House, and they can cause gridlock in Congress by filibustering the Senate Democrats;
You make it sound like this is a new tactic for them.

It's kind of bewildering that Republican senators want Democrats to compromise when these past two years they've been so unwilling to do the same. More bewildering is that lots of voters think it's just the Democrats who've been keeping government running at a snail's pace.

At least things didn't go so badly here in California.

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You make it sound like this is a new tactic for them.

It's kind of bewildering that Republican senators want Democrats to compromise when these past two years they've been so unwilling to do the same. More bewildering is that lots of voters think it's just the Democrats who've been keeping government running at a snail's pace.

At least things didn't go so badly here in California.
I love how just a week ago, John Boehner was quoted as saying to not compromise with Democrats, at all. And in his speech last night, the first thing Boehner mentioned was working together with Democrats to creat jobs. :/

The Repubs did a good job of portraying the Obama Administration as the source of of economic woes., when in actuality they're to blame.


...um no only 18% percent of voters responded so far and Whitman's not too far behind. The votes haven't also been totally tallied for Nevada either. I don't see how you can say that. It ain't over till it's over.
No, its over. ^^ They can accurately project the winner early on by looking at the Repub-Dem proportions, by city and by County. Forecasters knew Reid would win, because he took Sharron Angle's own hometown by a huge margin.

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No one party is to blame for our economic woes. Each side has a share in the blame.

You have to play tricky defensive tactics when you're the minority party.

I believe that the Tea Party did hold the GOP back this election. If it weren't for them, the Republicans could have taken the Senate as well. They fared well in traditional conservative areas like the South and Midwest, but voters in the West and Northeast didn't agree with their message. That's okay, though. I would much rather it take two election cycles to get a Republican majority that connects with everyday Americans rather than sweep through in one cycle with the same puppets as usual.

I'm rather disappointed Boxer won. I knew that seat was safe Democratic, but I would be much more comfortable with one of her primary challengers holding the seat. As for Jerry Brown, well we've had him as Governor in the past and that's didn't go very well.

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No one party is to blame for our economic woes. Each side has a share in the blame.

You have to play tricky defensive tactics when you're the minority party.

I believe that the Tea Party did hold the GOP back this election. If it weren't for them, the Republicans could have taken the Senate as well. They fared well in traditional conservative areas like the South and Midwest, but voters in the West and Northeast didn't agree with their message. That's okay, though. I would much rather it take two election cycles to get a Republican majority that connects with everyday Americans rather than sweep through in one cycle with the same puppets as usual.

I'm rather disappointed Boxer won. I knew that seat was safe Democratic, but I would be much more comfortable with one of her primary challengers holding the seat. As for Jerry Brown, well we've had him as Governor in the past and that's didn't go very well.
Some more than others. George Bush's policies, and the Democratic opposition to that from late '04-08 is to blame.

Moreso in the Senate than the House. O'Donnel and Angle were defeated rather comfortably, but had the traditional Republican nominees been on the ticket, they would have defeated Chris Coons and Harry Reid. So it cost the GOP at least two senate seats.

Fan fact:

This is the first time in almost 80 years that the Senate didn't flip-flop along with the House of representatives, So the GOP victory isn't as major or universal as it's made out to be. Remember, in every single Mid-term election since the end of the Civil War, the party of the sitting President has lost House and Senate Seats. This was an expected result.

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Some more than others. George Bush's policies, and the Democratic opposition to that from late '04-08 is to blame.

Moreso in the Senate than the House. O'Donnel and Angle were defeated rather comfortably, but had the traditional Republican nominees been on the ticket, they would have defeated Chris Coons and Harry Reid. So it cost the GOP at least two senate seats.

Fan fact:

This is the first time in almost 80 years that the Senate didn't flip-flop along with the House of representatives, So the GOP victory isn't as major or universal as it's made out to be. Remember, in every single Mid-term election since the end of the Civil War, the party of the sitting President has lost House and Senate Seats. This was an expected result.
Yes, but the fact that the House flipped the next election right after Obama was elected is significant. The Dems took until the last midterm of Bush's presidency to gain any majority.

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That's what I'm trying to point out. In Mid-terms Presidents usually lose seats, but it was different that time around. :O

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That's what I'm trying to point out. In Mid-terms Presidents usually lose seats, but it was different that time around. :O
Yes. Bush had a friendly Congress all the way up until 2006; the last midterm before his Presidency ended, since he was term limited in 2008. Obama's party lost seats in both Houses, and lost majority in one, the first midterm immediately following Obama's election to the Presidency.
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I am so glad that these elections are over, it was insane~

But in my state, the count for Governor was too close so we're not going to know anytime soon. -_-
Some people are talking about a few weeks before we know...? And one side wants a recount and stuff.
And it's bad because one of our biggest cities didn't order enough ballots so they started to turn away people and there were huge lines and they ended up keeping everything open a bit later...

I'm pretty okay with the results that my state got.
I'm happy that Linda Mcmahon lost. She doesn't really know what it's like for lesser people, she grew up with money and didn't she spend almost 40 Million Dollars of her own money on the campaign?
These elections shouldn't be about who has the most money (but unfortunatly, it usually is..) Glad she didn't win over the voters, ^_^

Is anyone else semi-happy with the results in their state?

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I watched my fair share of the election results from last night. With the Republicans taking control of the House and the Democrats still hanging onto the Senate by a few seats, I'm wondering if anything will get done in the next 2 years. There are still some senate races that have yet to be decided and it might take a while to figure who won, especially Alaska where you got a Write-In independent leading.

I also want to say this. Republicans and and Democrats WILL NEVER compromise on ANYTHING! They never have and they never will. You got two totally different ideological views on how things should be run and each and every view will clash and nothing happens in the end. To each party, compromise is a dirty word that equals weakness in their eyes and is not tolerated by anybody. Sure, there are some Republicans and Democrats who aren't blinded by party ideologue and see stuff more clearly, but they'll always go back for fear of being ostracized out of their party.

The day we see compromise between Republicans and Democrats is the day the Chicago Cubs win the World Series, Boston Red Sox fans and New York Yankees fans like each other, Isreal is no longer a warzome and there's actually world peace where somebody's not trying to blow another person to hell.
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