Sorry to be out of touch, but I was traveling all day from California to the northern reaches of New Hampshire. On the front pages up here in the north country: The incumbent Democratic governor, John Lynch, won re-election yesterday, while a Republican, Kelly Ayotte, won the Senate seat of retiring Republican Judd Greg, so nothing much seemed to change.
But just open the newspaper to the inside pages, and this is what you'll learn:
New Hampshire has two congressional districts. Democrats held both. Yesterday, Republicans won both. The New Hampshire senate has 24 seats. Democrats held 14. Yesterday, Republicans won 19, reducing Democratic seats to a mere five. The New Hampshire house, an enormous body, has 400 seats. Democrats held 223. Yesterday, Republicans won at least 297--in some districts, the results are still too close to call--reducing Democratic seats to 103 at the most.
Democrats in the U.S. House, in other words, were wiped out, while Democratic seats in the New Hampshire senate were reduced by two-thirds and those in the New Hampshire house were cut in half.
Yes, yes, I know, Steven: humility. But humility, if I may, is for week. The rest of this week is for gloating.
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Jun '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Darn Peter, from your title, I thought you were referring to California and that I had woken up in an alternate universe...
The Granite State finally lives up to its state motto.
May '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
New Hampshire has a Wodehousian sound. Like Shropshire. Doubtless has champion pigs. Also, Mark Steyn.
Gloat, gloat, gloat.
Live free or die, man...
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Kennedy Smith:
Live free or die, man... · Nov 3 at 9:00pm
You're dang right.
Jul '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Bully for Steynland. NH is living up to its motto.
We did pretty darn well here in Raheville also. I've already said this, but unlike most things I write it bears repetition:
In the great (lakes) state of Michigan the governorship flipped, the GOP improved it's hold in the state Senate, the state House went from minority (43 out of 110) to majority (63), and we picked up 2 congressional (Schauer's & Stupak's) seats.
If Deb Stabenow had been up, we'd have drummed her out too. But she wasn't; so we didn't.
Dr. Steele is a great guy, but hey, Dingell goes bye-bye after redistricting. Maybe the Doc will have a better target in 2012.
May '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Zippedy doo dah, zippedy ay. OK I don't know anything from Oklahoma. But I'm still insufferable to live with.
Jul '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
I'm noting a motto fixation. 'Course it is an awesome motto.
Edited on Nov 3, 2010 at 9:21pmJul '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
By the way, Maine went red yesterday, too.
Jul '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Now that is proof that it was a darn good night. Sea change? We'll see. But it wasn't quite business as usual either.
Aug '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Has anyone summed up all races across the nation last night--Congressional, gubernatorial, and state level House/Senate--to get a raw count of exactly how many Democrats were defeated last night?
I know chamber control is more important than sheer numbers, but given what we've seen so far that has to be some impressive percentage of total races. (And it would give an idea of how many down-the-ticket voters there were.)
Oct '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Here's a visual representation of what took place last night.
Jul '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
BlueAnt: Has anyone summed up all races across the nation last night--Congressional, gubernatorial, and state level House/Senate--to get a raw count of exactly how many Democrats were defeated last night?
I know chamber control is more important than sheer numbers, but given what we've seen so far that has to be some impressive percentage of total races. (And it would give an idea of how many down-the-ticket voters there were.) · Nov 3 at 9:44pm
More important, how many sitting republicans were defeated in their bid for re-election?
The MSM kept saying it was Anti Incumbant, but I'm not seeing a lot of Republican Incumbants who lost last night.
Jul '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Also, another point of note:
The Whole Senate was not up for Re-Election last night. Only 1/3 of the senate.
2/3rds of the Senate Winners were Republican.
So that's 2/3rds of 1/3rd of the senate. that's why it doesn't look as impressive as it was.
Going into the race 18 seats were Republican and 19 seats were Democrat.
Republicans gained 6 seats which is a 33% gain while democrats also lost 33% making the numbers 24 to 13.
When not compared to the full senate, 6 seats increased is very impressive indeed.
Edited on Nov 4, 2010 at 12:09amMay '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
My mom is pretty happy about Wisconsin. They flipped from Democrat to Republican on one Senator, their Governor, two net House seats, and both state houses.
That's a lot of red cheese.
May '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
I said that to Ed Gillespie six years ago. We should be winning Wisconsin, dammit. Now we have. Please stop me breaking into song.
Heck, even Peter's making typos, so I feel OK
Edited on Nov 4, 2010 at 2:26amMay '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
4 short years ago the Ohio Republican Party was decimated. Today it's back. We swept every statewide race, added five (last count) House members, and thrust two instant heavyweights on the national scene in Sen. Rob Portman and Gov. John Kasich--great conservatives both. This is very good news for Republicans' presidential prospects next go-round.
Once we step back and examine the day--after the immediate grieving of losing a Senate seat or two--we see that Nov 2, 2010, was historic and sets the table just about perfectly for the big meal in 2012.
And Kennedy, I'm now "following you" because I'm strangely compelled to enlarge each of your daily Master Thespian avatars.
Oct '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
I have lived in NH for 13 years. I freelance for local newspapers and I'm a ballot clerk. I believe New Hampshire's recent control by Democrats was an anomaly - a result of dissatisfaction with the Iraq war and Washington spending... under Republicans, so imagine how we feel now. In my town of 4500, more voters are "undeclared" than registered as Democrats or Republicans and mostly do not identify with either party. In NH, funding for municipal services and schools is almost 100% local, and comes from property taxes, so we are accustomed to serving on committees and boards, making decisions for ourselves, budgeting and prioritizing spending. In general, and especially outside the several small cities in our state, we do not trust or expect Washington to fix things and give us stuff. We (still) want to do it ourselves and be left alone. Our economy is not that connected to institutional liberalism. Tuesday's vote was a repudiation of Washington's deficit spending and power grab. When NH voters went down the Republican column and checked all the names, we were sending a message to Obama and Pelosi (with her oversized gavel) to Get Out of Our Face.
May '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
The headline in the Alabama Huntsville Times was "GOP KNOCKOUT!". We don't get any credit for it (because Parker Griffith changed from Democrat to Republican while in office) but it has been more than 140 years since we have elected a Republican in our 5th Congressional. And 136 years of Democratic rule in the state Legislature ended. Our problem is how to get Shelby on board for no earmarks.
Jun '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Meanwhile, voters in New York and California decided to step off the edge of the precipice into the abyss. California can now change the state song to the theme song from M*A*S*H*.
Edited on Nov 4, 2010 at 7:47amOct '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
Those in NY, CA, and MA showed on Tuesday night that *they* are the ones out of the mainstream.
Not that they'll acknowledge that, of course.
Jul '10
Re: Greetings From a State That Woke up Blue Yesterday Morning But Went to Bed Red Last Night
~Paules: Meanwhile, voters in New York and California decided to step off the edge of the precipice into the abyss. California can now change the state song to the theme song from M*A*S*H*. · Nov 4 at 7:45am
Edited on Nov 04 at 07:47 am
Actually, they are feeling certain that the Congress will have to Bail Them Out when Obama presents his plans for CA and NY Bailouts.
Why not step off the edge of the cliff when that nice safety net that serves as a hammock is waiting to save you.
Their big miscalculation is that with the Tea Party riding heard on the Republicans they will not be so easily persuaded by CBS, NBC, MsNBC, ABC, CNN, NYT, WaPo, and NPR that they have no choice but to "Bail Out States Too Big To Fail."
Edited on Nov 4, 2010 at 8:39am