Of all the election news this year, a significant amount of it was good.
Actually, these off-year elections on balance weren’t that bad for our side. We lost the Kentucky governorship, but that was mostly due to some scandal issues. We lost control of the Virginia state senate, which was bad. But the primary reason for that loss was the GOP turning into RINOs, and one of the defeated RINOs lost to a Democrat who pledged to be tough on illegal immigration.
On the plus side, Haley Barbour was easily re-elected in Mississippi and Bobby Jindal easily took the Louisiana governorship from the ‘Rats. Republicans did well in lower tier races in both states as well. Plus, we won a big upset and took the mayor’s race in Indianapolis.
All things considered, not too bad considering the overall atmosphere this year.
I’m thinking this has to be a fairly rodent district. Clyburn must be a relative of the Majority Whip in Congress, so this was a nice victory, but the question is how long we’ll be able to hold this seat.
Thanks. Good news is good, and this puts a happier face on yesterday’s underwhelming results. We did pick up a couple seats in the NJ house as well.