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This is funnier than NorCal being hurt because his junior varsity team was shutout and lost the district le.
HOW TO LOSE GRACIOUSLY!
If the positions were reversed in Virginia, Montana, and Missouri, a whole hoard of lawyers would be involved and there would be allegations of voter fraud and intimidation. However, I haven't heard one single allegation from the Republicans this year.
Heck, democrats are still squawking about the "stolen" elections in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004!
Speaking of losing graciously - it's time for me to disappear for awhile. This loss was very painful and I'm taking a break from politics, the news and talk radio.I think I'll hang out in the Spurs and NBA forum for awhile - things are much more interesting and fun there!
I'll be back when something new and interesting happens.
This is funnier than NorCal being hurt because his junior varsity team was shutout and lost the district le.
Here's a lesson for one Republican: Learn how to quack.
Democrats will learn a lesson the hard way and have a very rude awakening in 2008. The White House will be painted red soon enough!!
How do you know that Crooks? Are you suggesting that republicans don't know how to use lawyers? Are you saying that if they did the outcome would be reversed?
And what would bring you back to this forum? Would it require dem leaders dropping dead from heart attacks? Would that e your interest?
"I haven't heard one single allegation from the Republicans this year."
because the Repugs are the dirty tricks electioneers, not the Dems.
There were no Dem dirty tricks that the Repugs can whine about, while ALL the voting anomalies in Ohioi 2004 favored the Repugs and gave dubya his very disastrous second term.
Last edited by boutons_; 11-09-2006 at 11:43 AM.
One can only hope Crookshanks was clutching her similarly-dressed dolly and fighting back the tears when she started this thread.
There, there, Crooky...there, there.
Thats because Democrates don't practice voter fraud and intimidation.HOW TO LOSE GRACIOUSLY!
If the positions were reversed in Virginia, Montana, and Missouri, a whole hoard of lawyers would be involved and there would be allegations of voter fraud and intimidation. However, I haven't heard one single allegation from the Republicans this year.
Heck, democrats are still squawking about the "stolen" elections in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004!
Speaking of losing graciously - it's time for me to disappear for awhile. This loss was very painful and I'm taking a break from politics, the news and talk radio.
I'll be back when something new and interesting happens.
hey Crooky, don't let this door hit your ass as leave:
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November 9, 2006
In Statehouses, Too, Democrats Post Sizable Gains
By KIRK JOHNSON
CHICAGO, Nov. 8 — Democratic gains in Congress and governorships were matched on Tuesday by a surge involving state legislatures, where more than 275 seats and nine chambers switched from Republican to Democratic hands.
The victories, combined with the six new Democratic governors, have given the Democrats one-party government in 15 states, including New Hampshire for the first time since 1874, and Colorado for the first time since 1960.
No party has totally controlled as many as 15 states since the Republicans achieved that level after the 1994 election.
What is equally remarkable, said Tim Storey, a senior fellow at the National Conference of State Legislatures, is that the gains occurred across the country, even in the South, where Democrats had lost ground in every statehouse election since 1982.
The Southern gains were tiny, about 21 legislative seats across 14 states, but the direction, Mr. Storey said, was the important factor.
“I think it’s very significant; they’d been losing ground and they turned it around,” he said.
Republicans now control the executive and legislative branches in 10 states, down from 12 before the election. They did gain control of the Montana House by one vote and fought to a tie in the Montana and Oklahoma Senates, which had both been under Democratic control.
Twenty-four states are now split, and one, Nebraska, has a nonpartisan legislature.
Control of state capitols has effects far beyond local laws. The parties running the statehouses will control redistricting for the 2010 Census and can groom rising politicians for national office.
Political analysts said an equally important nuance was how the shift played out state by state for the Democrats. The party added five governors — in Arkansas, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio — from seats held by Republicans who had chosen not to run or were barred by term limits.
Democrats picked up a sixth seat in Maryland, where Mayor Martin O’Malley of Baltimore edged out Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
That shifted the advantage in governors to Democrats for the first time since 1994. The Democrats now control 28 governors’ seats to the Republicans’ 22. Before Election Day, those numbers were reversed.
The legislative gains, by contrast, were concentrated in the Midwest, where Democrats picked up about 104 seats, along with control of both chambers in Iowa, the Indiana House, the Michigan House and the Wisconsin Senate, and in the Northeast, where their net exceeded 140 lawmakers.
About 67 Democratic seats were added in the West.
In Arkansas, the Democrats gained control of the governor’s office with the election of Attorney General Mike Beebe and kept control of the Legislature. That gave the party unified control for the first time since 1994. Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican, was barred from running by term limits.
In Iowa, Chet Culver will replace a fellow Democrat, Gov. Tom Vilsack, who chose not to seek a third term. In addition to keeping the governor’s office in Democrats’ hands, the party took control of both chambers of the Legislature.
Democrats had not controlled the legislative and executive branches of government under the Capitol Dome in Des Moines since 1964. And before Tuesday, the State Senate was evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, and the House was under Republican rule.
New Hampshire accounted for more than 80 new Democratic lawmakers, bringing the state more firmly into line as a party bastion than any time since just after the 1870’s, when Democrats last ran the House, Senate and governor’s office, according to the New Hampshire Political Library, a nonpartisan education group in Concord.
“The state has been becoming more Democratic over last 20 years,” said Andrew E. Smith, an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire. “But this swing is a real tidal wave.”
Democratic lawmakers in Maine also surged, especially in the House, where they went from a one-vote majority, 74 to 73 with four independents, to a 91-to-51 majority. In Oregon, the shift was smaller, but the effect was huge. A shift of four House seats, with two races undecided on Wednesday, along with the re-election of Gov. Theodore R. Kulongoski, gave Democrats control of the Legislature and governor’s office for the first time since 1992.
In Colorado, Bill Ritter, a Democrat and former prosecutor in Denver, will succeed a Republican, Gov. Bill Owens, who could not run because of term limits. Mr. Ritter will be working down the hall in Denver with many more Democrats in the Legislature than Mr. Owens ever did.
Democrats gained narrow control of the Legislature in 2004, and the vote on Tuesday expanded the margins of their power from a one-vote majority in the Senate to perhaps four votes — one seat was undecided — and from a five-vote majority to, perhaps, a 12-seat majority in the House, with one undecided seat there.
A political scholar who has tracked Colorado politics for years said he thought that the gains were less about a new Democratic message and more about reaction against the old Republican one. The expert, Robert D. Loevy, a professor of political science at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, said the election illustrated a core shift on where the parties obtained votes. The well-educated, affluent close-in suburbs of Denver, Professor Loevy said, are shifting to Democratic from Republican.
“This used to be the backbone of the Republican Party in Colorado,” he said. “But the rise of social conservatism in the Republican Party — pro-life, anti-stem cell — has alienated large numbers, and that’s the group that has abandoned the Republicans more than any other.”
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So locally as well as nationally, the Repugs got their butts beat like drums.
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Crooky says the Repugs win with grace? These mofther ers were graceless winners from '94 - '06, with their rabdily partisan, smash-mouth, no-compromise, uncivil, 24x7 disprect tactics in elections and in the legislative chambers.
I have no doubt the Repugs will not change their spots. Incredible Rove/A er nastiness and viciousness is in their genes.
The Repugs will be back, and American civilization will again be worse off.
Isn't the true message to be learned that of how not to run Congress?
If so, I think the republicans did a great job of writing the book on that one.
Book was already written. Republicans added a couple of chapters.
Fair enough.
Bush Urges Bipartisan Cooperation Among Political Leaders
By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 9, 2006; 2:24 PM
President Bush today called on political leaders to put Tuesday's midterm elections "behind us" and to "rise above partisan differences," as he urged Congress to complete work on federal spending bills and other priorities in a final legislative session.
( the Great Divider got on the weak side of The Divide and now he's compromising, bi-partisan wimp.
Appearing with members of his Cabinet assembled behind him on the White House steps, Bush told reporters in the Rose Garden after a Cabinet meeting that he and other top administration officials "respect the results" of the elections, which gave Democrats control of the House of Representatives, and likely the Senate, as well as most of the nation's governorships.
( dugya didn't "respect the results" of the 2000 elections. Losing popular vote by 600K, he acted as if he really have mandate from The Great American People to embark on a range of extremely radical actions. )
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110900953.html
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So here's a WH, that even the Congressional Repugs complained all but ignored them for 6 years, that is now going all touchy-feely consultative and wimpy bi-partisan with the newly-powerful Dems? GMAFB
Last edited by boutons_; 11-09-2006 at 11:31 PM.
No , what a punk ass . They should bind his mouth with Tom DeLay's pubic hair
Faux News watchers and OAI listeners have really gotta be questioning themselves right now. Rest safe for now young Republicans, you still took all major offices in Texas.
Even Chafee is leaving!
Chafee unsure of staying with GOP after losing election
By Mic e R. Smith, Associated Press Writer | November 9, 2006
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Two days after losing a bid for a second term in an election seen as a referendum on President Bush and the Republican Party, Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he'd remain a Republican.
"I haven't made any decisions. I just haven't even thought about where my place is," Chafee said at a news conference when asked whether he would stick with the Republican Party or switch to be an independent or Democrat.
When asked if his comments meant he thought he might not belong in the Republican Party, he replied: "That's fair."
Chafee, 53, is the most liberal Republican in the Senate and was the sole Senate Republican to vote against the war in Iraq. That was not enough to save his seat against the winner, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, who shared many of Chafee's views but was a member of the dominant party in a state where Democrats far outnumber Republicans.
C'mon over Linc! The water's great. The authoritarians who have pillaged your party don't want you anyway.
Does anyone else see the irony of Crooky starting a thread about 'Losing graciously', and then bugging out because she can't handle it?
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