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Daily Caller:

Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, ousting several Democratic lawmakers from their seats and sending a stinging rebuke to President Barack Obama.

 

The GOP needed a net gain of six seats to win back control of the Senate from Democrats. As of early Wednesday, Republicans had won seven seats controlled by Democrats and were on track to win more by the night’s end.

 

Republicans were victorious in West Virginia, Arkansas, South Dakota, Colorado, Montana, Iowa and North Carolina. All seats had been held by Democrats.

 

Republicans held on to Georgia and Kansas, two states Democrats had hoped to pick-off. New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen barely survived a challenge from Republican Scott Brown.

 

Meanwhile, votes are still being counted in Alaska, where Republican Dan Sullivan is challenging Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Begich.

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MSNBC ELECTION PANEL BEGINS TO MELT DOWN

 

Tonight is not just Election Night , it is also the one night of the year where the mainstream media is at the mercy of We The People, the night where all our Media Elite Overlords can do is report and react, and hopefully pout. Breitbart News will be on "sad face" watch tonight. If things go well for America, they will not go well for an unbiased, objective, not-at-all-liberal media already so freaked out over the messiness of democracy they are openly advocating a gutting of the Constitution.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/11/04/media-live-blog

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Republicans Conquer the Senate

 

Republicans wrested control of the U.S. Senate from Democrats last night, setting the stage for potentially dramatic legislative showdowns with President Obama during the final two years of his already-catastrophic presidency.

 

After a GOP electoral wave wiped out several Democratic senators who supported Obamacare, around 11:15 p.m. Eastern time major media outlets projected Republicans would hold at least 51 seats in the Senate in January. In the approaching 114th Congress both chambers will be under GOP control and in a position to hinder Obama’s agenda if lawmakers so choose. It also clears the way for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to become the Senate’s first Republican majority leader since Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) left the post at the beginning of 2007.

 

 

The first big confrontation between Obama and Congress, a massively unpopular immigration amnesty that could trigger a major constitutional crisis, is already on its way. Several hours before the first polls closed in the East, ABC News reported that White House officials said the president would move forward with an executive order on immigration reform “no matter how big a shellacking Democrats” got Tuesday.

 

And what a shellacking Democrats received.

 

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/republicans-conquer-the-senate/

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Joni Ernst Makes History in Iowa

 

Republican Joni Ernst became the first woman from Iowa elected to Congress on Tuesday as she prevailed over Rep. Bruce Braley (D., Iowa) in a closely fought Senate race.

 

Ernst, a state senator and Iraq War veteran, was projected to win retiring Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D., Iowa) seat. The Republican defeated Braley, a four-term congressman and former trial lawyer, in a race that went down to the wire and provided crucial help to the GOP’s retaking of the Senate majority.

 

Braley began the race with an advantage due to his name recognition as a congressman, but a series of missteps quickly changed the dynamic of the contest. A video surfaced earlier this year of Braley calling popular Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) a “farmer from Iowa who never went to law school”—comments that many viewed as elitist in a state with more than 90,000 farms.

 

Subsequent reports revealed that he posted a picture of an English fruit farm to his Facebook page—rather than an Iowa farm—and threatened to sue his neighbors over chickens that wandered into his vacation home’s yard.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/joni-ernst-makes-history-in-iowa/

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Roberts Holds Seat in Kansas

 

Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts reclaimed his seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, delivering a win despite trailing by double digits in September and defeating millionaire Democrat-turned-independent Greg Orman, according to election observers from Fox News.

 

The normally deep-red state became a battleground after Democrat Chad Taylor dropped out of the race in September. Orman campaigned as a pragmatic independent for months, as Roberts battled Tea Party Dr. Milton Wolff for the Republican nomination.

 

Orman had pledged to caucus with whatever party claimed a majority on election day, despite garnering support from Democratic donors.

 

Orman’s support faltered in the last two months of the campaign, as the media began to scrutinize his positions and claims of independence. Republicans challenged Orman’s alleged independent status, pointing out that he ran for a Senate seat as a Democrat in 2008. Orman also raised thousands of dollars from liberal donors and hired Democratic operatives and campaign firms to manage his candidacy.

 

A Kansas GOP operative said voters “saw through” Orman’s veneer of independence.

 

http://freebeacon.com/politics/roberts-holds-seat-in-kansas/

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Republicans Fend Off Socialist Teacher to Pick Up Montana Senate Seat

 

For Montana Democrats looking to hold a U.S. Senate seat, a socialist didn’t fare much better than a plagiarist.

 

Rep. Steve Daines defeated Democratic State Rep. Amanda Curtis, according to projections, bringing Republicans within one seat of a majority in the U.S. Senate.

 

Curtis won the Democratic nomination in the state after the New York Times reported that Sen. John Walsh (D., Mont.) had plagiarized his final paper at the U.S. Army War College.

 

The college has since rescinded Walsh’s degree and removed his name from his graduating class’ commemorative plaque on campus.

 

Walsh was defiant until the end, saying, “I disagree with the findings made by the War College, I accept its decision with great humility and respect for the U.S. Military.”

 

Curtis, who represents Butte in Montana’s House of Representatives, immediately came under fire for her ties to a radical labor group called the Industrial Workers of the World.

 

The group’s members, commonly known as Wobblies, seek to “end the capitalist system,” according to IWW’s website.

 

http://freebeacon.com/politics/republicans-fend-off-socialist-teacher-to-pick-up-montana-senate-seat/

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Gardner Wins Colorado

 

Rep. Cory Gardner defeated Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Udall to win the Colorado Senate race Tuesday evening.

 

The race was called for Gardner, a two-term congressman from Yuma, with the Republican up 51 percent to 44 percent with 62 percent reporting. The Republican pick up is key to their party regaining control in the senate.

 

Udall had received criticism for running an “obnoxious” single-issue campaign on women’s issues, accusing Gardner of trying to ban birth control. He was even heckled by a mega Democratic millionaire donor during a campaign speech for running an ineffective campaign based almost entirely on abortion.

 

Gardner ran a broader campaign focused on health care, energy, and the economy.

 

He repeatedly hit Udall on Obamacare, citing his broken promise that “if you like your health care plan you can keep it” to 340,000 Coloradans who had their insurance plans cancelled.

 

http://freebeacon.com/politics/gardner-wins-colorado/

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Cotton Tops Pryor in Arkansas

 

Republican candidate Rep. Tom Cotton bested incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor in the Arkansas Senate race on Tuesday, securing a victory in one of the most competitive and closely watched battles of the 2014 midterms.

 

The seat is a key GOP pickup in its effort to gain control of the senate in the 2014 midterms.

 

Cotton, a freshman congressman and combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was favored in the majority of polls for several weeks leading up to Tuesday’s election.

 

Pryor is the last remaining Democrat in the Arkansas congressional delegation. He won 79 percent of the vote in his last election in 2008, running unopposed.

 

A single-party Democratic state for over a century, Arkansas has been shifting steadily toward the GOP for the past decade.

 

Pryor’s father, David Pryor, served as governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1979, and senator from 1979 to 1997. Pryor won his father’s former Senate seat in 2003.

 

http://freebeacon.com/politics/cotton-tops-pryor-in-arkansas/

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It’s a Wave: Republicans Take US Senate, Build Majority in House, Grab 24 Governorships

 

 

President Obama had said his policies were on the ballot, even if he wasn’t, and in those terms it was difficult not to see the results as a repudiation by voters of an unpopular president and his Democratic allies.

“Americans … have risen up and retired Harry Reid as [senate] majority leader,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said on Fox News at 2o minutes past midnight.

Cruz added: “Now that we have won the election it is incumbent on Republicans to stand up and lead. … Americans don’t necessarily trust Republicans; they’ve given us another chance.”

 

Votes still were being counted in Virginia and Alaska, but Republicans will take control of the Senate after netting seats in Iowa, West Virginia, Montana, South Dakota, Colorado, North Carolina and Arkansas.

 

http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/04/battle-for-the-senate-results-of-election-2014-as-they-happen/

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But I'm Not Gloating

JohnHuang2

 

Tonight we saw nothing short of a historic outbreak of mass sanity across America. Sooooo, to gloat or not to gloat. That's the question tonight. I'm leaning heavily against any gloating.

 

It's not an easy decision because the shellacking the Democrats took across the country tonight -- a magnificent display of Democrats' Electile Dysfunction -- presents such a target-rich environment.

 

For example, the contest in Arkansas. Here you've had what amounted to a family dynasty. It went down in flames tonight. But to top it all, Mark Pryor was brought down by a chap the media not long ago laughed off as having not a snowball's chance in hell of winning! A 37-year-old Congressional freshman named Tom Cotton beating a Pryor? In Arkansas? Ha, no way. But am I going to gloat over it, or even mention it? Nope.

 

Speaking of losers running on big family names, Michelle Nunn (Senate candidate) and Jason Carter (Gubernatorial candidate) similarly went down in flames in Georgia tonight. But I'm not gonna gloat about it nor even mention the fact that the experts were confidently predicting the Senate race would definitely head to a run-off. David Perdue winning outright? Against a Nunn? In Georgia? Not gonna happen.

 

Nor will you hear a peep from non-gloating me about the drubbing Democrats received in Colorado's Senate race tonight. The Democrat incumbent, Sen. Mark Uterus, flogged the "war on women" meme throughout the Campaign. He fancied himself being able to rouse that dead horse to victory. This was, after all, the meme that was supposed to be the Democrats' silver bullet because it worked for Obama, whose reelection was saved at the last minute by a woman named Hurricane Sandy.

 

Unfortunately for the Democrats in Colorado, there was nothing to save the world-renowned expert on female genitalia from defeat at the hands of Cory Gardner. But! Since I'm not gloating, no mention of any of this from me.

 

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Oh, one more thing . . .

 

Harry Reid -- you're fired! Heh, heh, heh! I'm still not gloating though! Honest!

 

Anyway, that's ...

 

My Two Cents

 

"JohnHuang2"

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Scott Walker’s Biggest Critic Calls His 3rd Win in 4 Years ‘Unprecedented’

 

Liberal pundit Ed Schultz called Republican electoral gains “huge.” And no race was bigger, in his opinion, than Gov. Scott Walker’s victory in Wisconsin.

 

“What hasn’t this guy done against the progressive movement? And he’s been victorious at almost all of it,” Schultz said on MSNBC.

 

Schultz, an outspoken critic of Walker, rallied liberals in a failed recall election against the governor in 2012. He noted that Walker has now won three statewide races in a span of four years, a feat he called “unprecedented.”

 

http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/04/scott-walkers-biggest-critic-calls-3rd-win-4-years-unprecedented/

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Hagan Ousted in North Carolina

 

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) was defeated by GOP challenger Thom Tillis tonight.

 

Tillis, the speaker of the state House of Representatives, had 49 percent compared to Hagan’s 47 with 98 percent of precincts reporting.

 

President Obama recorded a last-minute radio ad for Hagan, calling the incumbent “tireless” in “creating job opportunities here at home and supporting a higher minimum wage.”

“But Republicans have been cutting investments in education while protecting tax breaks for the wealthy, so let’s send them a message by voting for someone who shares our priorities,” the ad continued. “Voting is easy, so stand with me, President Obama, and take responsibility in moving North Carolina forward by voting for Kay Hagan on Nov. 4. A Senator you can count on.”

The polls were too close to call as voting booths opened.

Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) also held onto her seat after a challenge from singer Clay Aiken. Ellmers won 59-41 percent over the Democrat.

 

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/11/04/hagan-ousted-in-north-carolina/

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Democrats sift through the debris

 

Democrats on Wednesday morning began sorting through the wreckage of disastrous midterm elections in which losses eclipsed even their worst fears.

 

The scale of the defeats, taken together, was breathtaking: a Senate majority lost, over a dozen House seats swept away, and Democrats ousted from governors’ mansions across the country.

 

The drubbing is sure to spark a round of soul-searching as Democrats ponder whether President Obama is to blame — or whether something deeper has gone wrong in the party that could threaten its chances of retaining the White House in 2016.

 

 

“This is where the administration has to take a real honest look at its decision-making and its management. Between the Veterans Administration, the health care website…it was a lot of things for the last two years that kept feeding this concern that Democrats aren’t able to manage this government,” said one Democratic strategist who requested anonymity to speak freely.

Finger-pointing had begun between Senate Democrats and the White House even before every race had been decided. The blame game is sure to get worse in the coming days.

“The president’s approval rating is barely 40 percent,” David Krone, chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told Washington Post reporters. “What else more is there to say? ... He wasn’t going to play well in North Carolina or Iowa or New Hampshire. I’m sorry. It doesn’t mean that the message was bad, but sometimes the messenger isn’t good.”

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/223011-democrats-sift-through-the-debris

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Mia Love becomes first black Republican woman in Congress

 

Mia Love ® won a House seat Tuesday in her second bid to become the first female African-American Republican in Congress.

 

Love, who is the former mayor of Saratoga Springs, defeated Democrat Doug Owens in an open race to succeed retiring Rep. Jim Matheson (D), by 49 to 47 percent, according to The Associated Press.

Love ran unsuccessfully against Matheson in 2012, but the rising GOP star was able to claim victory Tuesday.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/222993-mia-love-wins-utah-house-seat

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Republican leads Alaska Senate race

 

Former Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan ® has a lead on Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), the latest good news for Republicans on a dominant night.

 

Sullivan leads Begich by 49 percent to 45 percent with 100 percent of precincts reporting. The Associated Press has not called the race, and Begich has not conceded.

 

Sullivan ran a disciplined campaign, posting huge fundraising numbers and relentlessly tying Begich to President Obama as he attacked government regulation.

He managed to unite a fractured Republican base, boosted by the endorsements of his primary foes, 2010 Senate nominee Joe Miller ® and outgoing Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell ®. He also got a big boost with moderates and independents from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who gave him a hearty endorsement and fought with Begich throughout the campaign.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/223010-republican-leads-alaska-senate-race

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GOP's Perdue wins outright in Georgia

 

Businessman David Perdue ® has won Georgia's open Senate seat, topping the 50 percent threshold needed to defeat former charity executive Michelle Nunn (D) and avoid a runoff election in January.

 

Multiple networks have called the race for Perdue, who leads Nunn 57 percent to 41 percent with 77 percent of precincts reporting.

Democrats had hoped to knock off Perdue and make it more difficult for Republicans to win the Senate majority.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/222922-perdue-gets-outright-win-in-georgia-senate-race

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RED TSUNAMI: GOP GAINS ACROSS THE BOARD IN HISTORIC SWEEP

 

Roughly two months ago, we explored the question of whether Republicans were headed for a "wave" election victory in 2014. The results are in, and the verdict is unequivocal: Yes. As of this writing -- in the wee hours of the morning -- Republicans appear poised to win their largest House majority in well over half a century. They have won the United States Senate by a decisive margin, netting eight seats outright, with a ninth almost certainly on the way. They will actually gain a number of governorships -- building on their already-remarkable 30-20 advantage. And they've expanded their dominance of state-level legislative chambers. A comprehensive blowout. There are many things for conservatives to celebrate. An incomplete list, in no particular order:

 

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/11/05/red-tsunami-gop-gains-across-the-board-in-historic-sweep-n1914430

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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn Falls to Bruce Rauner

 

The Illinois gubernatorial election has been called for Republican challenger Bruce Rauner who defeated Gov. Pat Quinn.

 

Quinn and Rauner fought a brutal and expensive campaign that saw more than $100 million spent in attempts to swing the election. Quinn faced ethical problems regarding the way he handled hiring at state agencies, and in recent weeks was dealt a major blow on ethics charges when a state judge ruled that his administration was hiring based on political considerations.

 

Rauner took in more than 50 percent of the vote in his victory.

 

http://freebeacon.com/politics/illinois-gov-pat-quinn-falls-to-bruce-rauner/

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Translation

 

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You will notice a slight difference....

 

http://youtu.be/C93vfA4iDkc

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12 notes in one cover

Scott Johnson

November 5, 2014

 

In its classic tabloid style, the cover of the New York Post captures leading story line in last night’s results with characteristic concision.

 

 

 

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What he's really thinking

 

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What he's really thinking

 

I guess the people did not want them to work together when he was in charge, but now that he is not, they should work together. Toad.

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