The shrinkage of the Obama majority

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Washington Examiner:

Some observations on the election:

 

(1) This was a wave, folks. It will be a benchmark for judging waves, for either party, for years.

 

(2) In seriously contested races Republican candidates were generally younger, more vigorous, more sunny and optimistic than Democrats. The contrast was sharpest in Colorado and Iowa, which voted twice for President Obama. Cory Gardner and Joni Ernst seemed to be looking forward to the future. Their opponents grimly championed the stale causes of feminists and trial lawyers of the past.

 

Democrats see themselves as the party of the future. But their policies are antique. The federal minimum wage dates to 1938, equal pay for women to 1963, access to contraceptives to 1965. Raising these issues now is campaign gimmickry, not serious policymaking.

 

Democratic leading lights have been around a long time. The party’s two congressional leaders are in their 70s. The governors of the two largest Democratic states are sons of former governors who won their first statewide elections in 1950 and 1978.

 

 

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28 senators who voted for Obamacare and won't be part of new Senate

 

On Dec. 24, 2009, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed President Obama’s healthcare law with a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, triggering a massive backlash that propelled Republicans to control of the House the following year. On the Senate side, going into Tuesday’s elections, 24 senators who voted for Obamacare were already out or not going be part of the new Senate being sworn in on January.

 

To be sure, it isn’t fair to attribute all of the turnover in the chamber to Obamacare. Many senators voted for Obamacare and lost re-election battles in which they were hit hard for their support for the law, and other Democrats were forced to retire because they had no hope of getting re-elected given their support for the law. But in some cases — such as John Kerry leaving his seat to become secretary of state, or Robert Byrd passing away — Obamacare clearly had nothing to do with it.

 

Additionally, some outgoing pro-Obamacare votes were replaced by new Democratic senators.

 

That having been said, as of this writing, 15 Senators who voted for Obamacare either failed to win reelection or declined to run for reelection and had their seats turned over to Republicans. That number is likely to grow once the results are in from the Senate runoff in Louisiana, which Mary Landrieu is expected to lose.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/28-senators-who-voted-for-obamacare-and-wont-be-part-of-new-senate/article/2555721

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HERE'S WHAT A REPUBLICAN TAKEOVER LOOKS LIKE

 

That's a lot of red for the House.

 

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/here-s-what-a-republican-takeover-looks-likes-20141105

 

 

​Just take a look and see