Posted on 11/08/2011 11:31:17 PM PST by lbryce
Republicans appeared on the cusp of taking control of the Virginia Senate Tuesday with at least one veteran Democrat losing to a freshman Republican senator and a seven-term Democrat trailing a Republican challenger.
In the House of Delegates, Republicans picked up at least six seats, staking them to 66 of the chamber's 100 seats, the GOP's largest House majority ever. That doesn't count a conservative independent, Del. Lacey Putney, who organizes with House Republicans and another race that was too close to call.
Democrat Roscoe Reynolds lost his bid for a fourth term to freshman GOP Sen. Bill Stanley in the Senate's marquee race, bringing the GOP to within one seat of 20-20 split in the 40-member Senate. Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling breaks Senate tie votes.
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Uh, when I went to the polls yesterday, all I had to do was show my voter card, not a picture ID (though I did anyway...).
We need a picture ID requirement here...and everywhere.
The only way Obama stays in power is if he seizes it.
we lost big time in CT.
New Britain mayor went from R to D
Middletown mayor went from R to D
Waterbury mayor went from incumbent Jarjura to liberal DEM
The Malloy operation treated it like a mid-term and pumped the DEM GOTV operation in selected towns statewide.
When I worked as an election officer (2004, 2005, and 2006) a voter card with no picture was acceptable ID. In addition, ID is not necessary if a voter signs a form affirming that the voter is who he/she states he/she is. Need required picture ID.
Sen. Dick Saslaw, leader of the Senate’s Democrats, sought solace that the results were not as dire as the easy Republican takeover many had predicted. “It is what it is,” he said. “A 20-20 split is considerably better than what everybody was expecting when people were predicting we could lose five to nine seats.”
Yes, Senator Saslaw;it is what it is. That is, a bad day for Democrats, a wonderful, uplifting harbinger of things to come, for all Americans, the nation, the new White House occupant.
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This Saslaw guy is a TRUE idiot. Never really mentioned this to anyone, but after I’d written a letter complaining out illegal immigration in Virginia, the guy called me up at HOME and chewed me out over it for a good 15 minutes. I told him my husband had just come back from Iraq and that he was a total a776hole for calling me up. He was obviously just trying to belittle and persecute me for my beliefs.
I’ve never told anyone, and really wish I could tell it to someone that matters .. he’s a real jerk.
I’ve had to show picture ID and give my 911 address every time I’ve voted since moving to Virginia and I know most of the poll workers.
Didn’t happen in Isle of Wight County - my dad went to show his picture ID and was told he didn’t need to show it...
not too consistent it seems...
That is the 87th VA House race I was speaking of. Apparently it is headed for a recount.
We lost really big in Kentucky as well. One bright spot is that we have a young rising star who won the Agriculture Commissioner race handily...losing governor was not unexpected as the incumbent had managed to build a lot of popularity (and the candidates we ran weren’t anything to get excited about and the Lt. Governor candidate, who was a UK basketball hero, had his own very popular image tarnished as his wife filed for divorce in the middle of the campaign). Really bad news is the SOS race - the Dem got elected and she opposes picture ID to vote and also supports a policy of not even requiring a specific address to register to vote...she certainly didn’t campaign on that and ran a masterful campaign ad including her two grandmothers that was a huge hit with the public. We lost every other race as well (besides the Ag. Commissioner race I mentioned above). We didn’t lose any ground as Ag. Commissioner is the only office we held going into the election, but still...getting nearly swept like that was a bit of a downer.
I believe that the CT GOP has reached such an anemic state that they cannot compete with the DEMS in any meaningful fashion. The electorate is content to allow the DEMS total control and balance that out by preferring to elect moderate GOP governors.
So the GOP strategy is to wait for 2014 and throw all into the GOV race ... as they can compete if they can throw all resources into one office ... as the electorate prefers them for that one and only one office.
This is no substitute for real party building at the local assembly district level. And it is also boring. Those of us who are interested in doing the assembly district stuff tell ourselves we are doing work that neither the GOP hierarcy nor the voters have any interest in. Baffling to try to come up with solutions.
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