GOP’s new stars break mold, refresh Republican brand

[Geee]

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From the first female black Republican ever elected to Congress to the first woman combat veteran to serve in the Senate, voters Tuesday injected a wave of fresh faces into American politics, helping to soften the GOP’s image as the party of cranky old white men, and anointing a galaxy of new political stars likely to have an immediate impact in Washington.

 

Mia Love, a Haitian-American Mormon, will become the first black GOP woman to serve in Congress after she won a House seat in Utah on her second try. And the decisive Senate win by Joni Ernst, a lieutenant colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard who served in Kuwait during Operation Iraqi Freedom, makes her the first woman who’s served in combat to reach the upper chamber.

 

Nebraska voters chose Ben Sasse as their next senator, tapping a former Bush administration health official who analysts say has both D.C. experience and outsider appeal to be a national voice.

 

[Draggingtree]

Election 2014 – Winners and Losers

Posted on November 6, 2014 by The Political Hat

Now that the election is (mostly) over, let’s take a gander on who the big winners and loser were.

Aside from the Republican candidates elected, there were some big winners coming out of election night.

 

Ed Gillespie

Yes, Gillespie lost the Virginia Senate race, but his narrow loss was only by 1% in a race he was expected to lose by double digits. Had the Republicans invested even a bit more into that race, he would have won. Virginia is back in play, and Gillespie may have secured the Virginia governorship in three years time.

 

Brian Sandoval

The Governor not only secured his own re-election, but also the election of a Republican majority in both legislative seats and a clean sweep of statewide partisan races. The Democrats have dominated for the past decade due to Harry Reid’s political machine, but with Reid busy trying, and failing, to save the U.S. Senate for the Democrats, the Democrats vulnerability became manifest.

 

Engage Nevada

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