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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Consolidating

1:24 a.m. Okay, I'm just about done for the night. Too burnt out to sum up my thoughts but Ace makes some excellent points in what I assume is his goodnight post.


Why didn't we win this time? We didn't show up with the ammo for the war of ideas. Namely, ideas...

Liberals blame voters for their decisions. I don't want to do that. But if politicians have to live with the consequences of losing their voters, voters have to live with the consequences of losing their politicians, too. According to early estimates, perhaps one-third of previous evangelical voters flipped and went for Democrats. If scandal and such put them off, fine. But if John Paul Stevens now retires, and Bush cannot get anyone but a liberal (of a moderate stripe) through the Senate, they will know precisely what that defection cost them. Can't say it's their fault; if the Republicans alienated them, such is politics. But I'm not sure evangelicals will find their choice in their own interests...

We were wrong, and we were bloodied. We got our clocks cleaned. The Democrats didn't do much except try not to say anything at all and nominate pretty candidates who had no previous history and thus could plausibly pose as moderates or even monderate-conservatives. But if you don't play your best game, you can be beaten by weak teams. Winning teams always play their best games. Losing teams put in half-hearted effort and just hope luck and opponents' mistakes will carry them along, barely.

It's also worth pointing out that when Republicans lose we don't resort to calling the voters stupid, ignorant hicks. Just sayin'.

Oh and except for Arnold and Poizner it looks like all our statewide candidates lost too. Poor Tony =(

12:18 a.m. Michelle Malkin is hitting the sack, but she has some positive observations for conservatives regarding the results of this election. Anyway, now it's time for the Democrats to put up or shut up. Should be interesting to see the party of whine-and-complain actually come up with some solutions for a change.

12:01 a.m. My internet connection keeps crashing every three seconds. As if this night could be any more frustrating. Maybe I should just go to sleep and let this day end...except all I have to look forward to tomorrow is lots of Democratic gloating and a midterm. My French buddies have actually been consoling me about the loss, that's kind of neat =)

11:35 p.m. Well, I'm officially depressed. Tony is down exactly 7% (approximately 250,000 votes) with 50% of precincts reporting. Not looking good. Arnold won in a landslide, but honestly? Eh. Okay, okay, I'm a little happy about Arnold winning (he is better than Angelides) but it doesn't outweigh everything else. Not by a long-shot.

McClintock's lead is gone, he is currently down by 0.6% (approximately 22,000 votes). It can still go either way but it just doesn't seem to be happening for the R's tonight so I'm not holding my breath.

McPherson is still holding onto a small lead of 0.6% so that could go either way as well.

The only bright spot is Poizner who has a sizeable lead over Bustamante. But who the hell knows what insurance commissioner does anyway? (Man I'm in a negative mood tonight...note to self, it's not the end of the world!)

Talent has conceded so looks like the Dems will likely take control of the Senate. Whee...

And back here in California it looks like the taxpayers have decided to take on $85 billion dollars worth of debt (but don't worry, they're *just* issuing bonds, not raising our taxes...the money will come from the magic money fairy who gives the government money...oh wait...I forgot, the government gets its money from the taxpayers right?). We clearly don't like new taxes though, as all of those propositions raising any sort of tax seem to have failed. And don't you dare tell us when our 12yo daughters are getting abortions. But feel free to take our property and turn it into a strip mall if you so wish because we love eminent domain here in California. Who needs property rights? Not us!

At least Jessica's Law passed, wish we knew who the 30% of kiddie-rapist sympathizers are though...so we can keep them them the hell away from kids.

9:15 p.m. Now that the Dems have control of the House we should probably go ahead and put up a sign on the border: Come on in, free citizenship for all!

Back to state elections for a minute...I can't believe Prop 85 (Parental Notification) is losing, albeit by a slight margin with a lot of votes left to count. But still! Who are all these people who want their 12yo having an abortion without their knowledge?

8:50 p.m.I'm just going to update this post for the rest of the night instead of doing a whole bunch of little posts. I have a midterm tomorrow y'all. And I am sitting here glued to the TV. I'm not even sure why since we LOST. But here I am, don't question me.

I just heard a FoxNews reporter say that President Bush is saying maybe now he'll try to push through his immigration reform (that was being held up by House Republicans). I don't like to swear on this blog but I'll make an exception: SHIT. SHIT! SHIT. I knew this was going to happen and this is why all along I believed that keeping the House was much more important than keeping the Senate. Sigh.

On a happier note, it looks like the Republicans running for state office in California may do fairly well. Hard to say for sure though since it's still early, but so far McClintock is even winning in LA county, so keep your fingers crossed! Tony (Strickland) has a very slight lead, but it's way too early to say anything about that...

wingless was still breathing at 8:50 PM -

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i hate it. we now have a slumlord for governor.
 
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