US POLITICS election/post-election edition: your country will improve immediately.

It's mourning in America.

all i'm gonna say is that (a) incumbent parties generally lose midterm elections; (b) the political party in power during economically shitty times is gonna feel the brunt of the electorate's ass; and (c) the GOP got more of theres than the Dems got theres to the polls.

all else is flatulence.

We know. Too bad Obama and his acolytes never explained why they were an alternative.

We don't "do" revolutions in America, so the electorate would rather cede control to McDonnell-Boehner than try something new.

*McConnell

eisbaer is right. idk, a lot of folks seem to have bought into this idea that the gov't is just spending too much money & divided government that stops anything from happening is.. uh, somehow going to fix the economy

ugh rand paul

rand gonna be a treat.

keeps repeating 'respect', take THAT mr aqua buddha

rand paul seems like a total smug know-it-all dickhead, ugh

haha this guy. i can't wait tbh.

team aqua buddha

Rand Paul 2010: UGH

yeah he is a fucking useless prick

i mean we all hate his dad but he's like the braindead neocon version of ron, who to his credit is not completely clueless on at least a few issues

the dubya to his dad's hw

special texas crazy vs special deep south smugness.. i think the second one is worse. ugh, rand paul

yeah that seems fair xp

hey at least he said america wasn't "inherently" great. a slight tip to libertarians...

never trust a libertarian

ohh girl i don't!!

adios alan grayson

yeah, i'll take Papa Paul's bolo-tie-wearing nuttiness over Rand Paul's fratboy-cum-Spicoli douchebaggery anyday.

RIP Feingold. That one hurts.

well, o'malley and senator barb won. go go people's republic of maryland <3

wait, who called feingold? i haven't seen that

Daniel and Alfred, at least it looks like 5 & 6 will have passed by night's end. Small victories.

what a gross WAVE. republicans are so lame.

http://uncajoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/boehner-oompa-loompa.jpg

Daniel and Alfred, at least it looks like 5 & 6 will have passed by night's end

Amendments?

al where are you getting the feingold call from?

My bad -- only a few precincts reporting.

polls seemed pretty clear cut w/r/t feingold

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/wisconsin

something to keep track of -- there was a campaign to bounce all the iowa supreme court justices who voted for gay marriage

http://www.iowaelectionresults.gov/

at least we don't have to worry about oklahoma being overtaken by sharia law

yeah (rand) is a fucking useless prick

i mean we all hate his dad

*cough*

Dad opposed the Iraq invasion, unlike many of the pricks y'all voted for today.

Amendments?

― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, November 2, 2010 9:22 PM

Yeah, the senate/house district-drawing amendments. Less gerrymandering = more competitive districts statewide (hopefully).

i figured those would pass. the last amendment was so tea-party loaded it was laughable. i wonder if it will pass.

tho i think there were polls suggesting every amendment would be defeated this time?

considering unemployment figures and fucking citizens united if tonight only equals 94 in the house and the republicans can't even take the senate than color me ridiculously relieved. if the economy's on surer footing and unemployment's down to 5-6-maybe 7% obama wins reelection (where the makeup of the supreme court could seriously come into play), and the dems take back the house. the gop went all in this cycle and wrote off the hispanic vote (which they have been coveting as their 'black vote' for as long as i remember, literally was at least 25% of rove's long term thinking), there is no growth market they have not been losing to dems and the only potential growth to their base in the white female vote. still no idea how exactly citizens united is gonna keep playing out or the next two years, god only know what the next two years look like - govt shutdown pretty much a certainty, impeachment proceedings hinted at (btw a 90s theme bar just opened up in town - not sure if i should hang myself or bill myself dj oj and try to book a night spinning archers of loaf records)(same difference etc) - but i swear every time these fuckers hit a peak they manage to find a way to fuck it up grandly (referring here to republicans) and if it happens again now and that peak is just something resembling what they had in 01 after jeffords flipped but minus the white house than i can live with that, for two years at least. the next two years will be uglier and the gop will do insane stupid shit that will plz their base but turn independants back to the dems, if the economy improves. i would love it if say dems in congress showed as much insane principle, venom, and discipline as the gop has these past two years and would love it if the grass roots left showed as much passion, organization, and drive as the grass roots right has these past two years but i'm not counting on it either. i am counting on the gop thinking that a tilt in their favor today equals a permanent conservative majority in america from now to kingdom come and fucking themselves (and the country for sure) over as a result. worked last time.

from what i've seen of returns, feingold race is surprisingly close given what the polling showed beforehand.

at "7% reporting" - http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/wisconsin

i swear every time these fuckers hit a peak they manage to find a way to fuck it up grandly (referring here to republicans democrats)

*cough*

Dad opposed the Iraq invasion, unlike many of the pricks y'all voted for today.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 2, 2010 9:33 PM (4 minutes ago)

yeah man i know i thought i made that clear. i'm with you on this

i don't know what to say except, it's seemed to me that.. obama is the kind of leader he said he'd be, only a lot of people who voted for him weren't listening to what he was really saying?

itt morbs turning on his brothers in arms

Voted for my war-loving Claude Pepper-replacing incumbent who's one of only two members of the GOP gay caucus. Local politics!

daria the numbers i'm seeing aren't so great

oh, i KNOW that the Teabaggers will fuck up their good fortune. i just wish that their upcoming crackup would be private, and not threaten to fuck up the USA (and the world) in these very precarious times.

also daria OTM re Obama -- though i DID kinda hope that he'd rise to the occasion post-Lehman Bros and channel a hitherto-undetected inner FDR/LBJ.

fucking epic balls post, much love from up north

dad and son oppose civil rights act also. unlike any of the pricks i voted for today. in georgia.

i'm too depressed to look -- is the GOP going to retake the house and the senate?