The state’s voters handily approve Prop 755: State Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, authored State Question 755, which requires state courts to rely only on federal and state laws when deciding cases, and forbids courts to consider international law or Sharia law. It will appear on the Nov. 2 general election ballot. Duncan said he [...]
While the Democrats’ ’06 & ’08 classes – most of whom were elected in swing seats that voted for either George W. Bush in 2004 or John McCain in 2008 or both — will likely be decimated tonight, what makes this election more of a tsunami is the endangered Old Bulls. Remember, in 2006 networks [...]
Maybe there is something in the tea–this habit that Tea Party candidates have, on election night, of misquoting the nation’s founding fathers. Just now, in a rousing victory speech, Kentucky’s newest senator, Rand Paul, announced, “Thomas Jefferson wrote, ‘That government is best that governs least.’” Except, no. He didn’t. Henry David Thoreau did. According to [...]
Both CNN and MSNBC are now projecting that House Republicans will gain at least 39 seats and control of the House. The crowd here at the GOP victory party, where Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele just spoke and predicted a 55 seat pick up in the House, is cheering as CNN analyzes the races. [...]
…now has just a 2 percent chance of going Republican, according to Nate Silver, thanks to Democratic wins in Connecticut and West Virginia. Although as I’ve blogged before, the House is the chamber the Democrats, in an ideal world, probably would have preferred to keep.
Their model suggests the GOP will gain at least 50 seats.
Given the grim predictions, it’s not surprising that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Election Night soiree seemed a relatively subdued affair. (At least, that’s how it seemed from the tiny, roped-off press pen at the back of the room where they cordoned off reporters for the 15 minutes we were allowed inside the room.) The [...]
In the end, Christine O’Donnell seemed to fulfill everyone’s expectations, save perhaps her own. As Democrats expected, she was a lot of fun to watch, offering at times a parody of what Democrats like to think about Tea Party candidates. (“Got to just laugh,” she wrote in one tweet yesterday. “Mix up again.”) As institutional [...]
If Republicans come up just short of winning the Senate seat tonight, Sarah Palin is going to have some awkward questions to answer about her endorsement.
It’s not clear what will happen to several high-profile Tea Party candidates tonight, including Joe Miller, Ken Buck and Sharron Angle. But at least one of them will be joining the U.S. Senate, and perhaps the one who best represents the movement’s anti-government ethos, fierce constitutionalism, and rejection of the Republican Party establishment. That would [...]
