Election 2014: A Wave or a Rising Tide?

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RedState: Election 2014: A Wave or a Rising Tide?

By: RightinSanFrancisco (Diary) | November 10th, 2014 at 05:41 AM

It is hard to find anyone outside of the White House or the New Republic who denies that President Obama and the Democrats took a thumping on November 4. A likely Senate pick-up of nine seats; the greatest Republican House majority since Herbert Hoover; three more governorships in Blue states; fully two thirds of the state legislative chambers - a wave by any standard. The question is whether it is more than that – a rising Republican tide which will last for awhile. It is easy to think so. Much more will be written about how the incompetence of the Obama administration has scarred the reputation of “big government” – the Obamacare rollout; Snowden’s NSA; the Veterans Administration; the events leading to ISIS; the Ukraine; the open southern border; even the inability of the Secret Service to protect the president. Some of these have an ideological underlay, but the average voter has come to the conclusion that government is trying to do more than it is capable of. Each issue stands on its own,

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How Republicans Took the South

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • November 11, 2014, 12:05 AM

In 1956, 19 Democratic Senators and 82 Democratic House members signed a Southern Manifesto pledging to resist the integration of Southern public schools as ordered by Earl Warren’s Supreme Court. Only two GOP House members, both from Virginia, signed. The American South was as solidly Democratic as it was solidly segregationist.

 

The break in the dam came in a special election in Texas in 1961 to fill the Senate seat of Lyndon Johnson, newly elected vice president. John Tower became the first Republican since Reconstruction to win a Southern Senate seat by popular election.

After a raucous rally in South Carolina in 1966, Richard Nixon told this writer the future of the GOP was in the South.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/how-republicans-took-the-south/