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America Votes: The Midterm Elections; Republicans Take Senate, Hold House - Live Feed
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other" - Oscar Ameringer
- *'TIME TO TO START GETTING RESULTS': SPEAKER BOEHNER SAYS
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- *TILLIS WINS NORTH CAROLINA RACE, SECURING SENATE GOP MAJORITY
- *REID CONGRATULATES MCCONNELL ON REPUBLICAN SENATE WIN
- *REID SAYS MESSAGE FROM VOTERS IS PARTIES NEED TO WORK TOGETHER
Sen. Harry Reid statement on GOP taking Senate pic.twitter.com/uxzteAqajQ
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) November 5, 2014
As AP reports,
Republicans retained their House majority on Tuesday, expanding their numbers to near historic highs and giving the GOP control of both chambers of Congress.
The GOP knocked out Democratic incumbents in Georgia, West Virginia, Illinois, New York and Florida as President Barack Obama proved too much of a drag on his party in midterm elections. Republicans also claimed two open seats in New York and North Carolina.
Control of the House and Senate means an all-GOP Congress for Obama's last two years in office.
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State of Play:
House: 435 Seats, 43 Undecided, Results: Republicans 235 - 157 Democrats (Dem -8, Rep +10)
Senate: 100 Seats, 4 Undecided, Results: Republicans 52 - 45 Democrats/Independents (Dem -7, Rep +7)
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For The House: 218 of 435 Seats Needed for Majority; Current House: 199 (D); 233 (R); 3 Vacancies
For The Senate: 51 of 100 Seats Needed for Majority; Current Senate: 53 (D); 45 (R); 2 (I)
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NBC Live Feed
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JUST IN: NBC News projects Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives http://t.co/lvSdF0vhSj #NBCPolitics
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) November 5, 2014
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The key states:
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Details:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky won a sixth term Tuesday as his party eyes its best chance in eight years to take control of both houses of Congress.
Mr. McConnell’s win against a strong Democratic challenger marks the first big election result of the night and positions the 72-year-old as the Senate’s next majority leader if Republicans manage to wrest the chamber from the Democrats in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Hoping to capitalize on an unpopular president and a favorable political map, the GOP needs a net addition of six seats to gain sway over the Senate.
“Victory is in the air, we’re going to bring it home tomorrow night,” Mr. McConnell said at a closing rally Monday in Louisville. “After six years of borrowing and taxing and spending and regulation, these people need to be stopped, and it starts tomorrow night.”
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Republicans have their first pick up of the evening:
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito defeats Democrat Natalie Tennant in race to succeed 5-term Democrat Jay Rockefeller, who is retiring.
Republicans need net gain of 6 seats to take control of Senate; analysts long had seen W. Va. pick-up likely for Republicans
Capito in 2000 became the first woman Republican to represent W.Va. in Congress; she is daughter of state’s former gov., Arch Moore
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For those onlookers who prefer to stay responsibly number, TIME has a drinking game to get through the rhetoric that fills 8 hours of TV coverage...
Here are TIME’s 2014 Election Night drinking game suggestions:
- “Ground game.” The key is to pace yourself. Drink one sip.
- An incumbent is described as “embattled.” Drink three sips.
- A Taylor Swift reference. Drink three.
- “It will all come down to turnout.” Finish your drink.
- John King doodles on his Magic Wall. Drink one.
- A network presents publicly available information as an exclusive. Drink three.
- Hologram sighting. Finish your drink.
- A Democratic dynasty candidate loses. This includes: Mark Begich, Jason Carter, Andrew Cuomo, Mary Landrieu, Michelle Nunn, Mark Pryor, Mark Udall. Drink one. Let’s not go crazy.
- Democrats win a battleground state: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire or North Carolina. Finish your drink.
- A winning candidate thanks God. Drink one.
- A winning candidate thanks his or her big donors. Drink three.
- A winning candidate thanks Barack Obama. Finish your drink.
- An anchor or correspondent cites an obscure, “crucial” county that may determine the fate of a race. Drink one.
- You’ve heard of the county. Drink three.
- Because you’ve heard of the county, you know the person touting its importance just mangled its name. Finish your drink.
- A Democratic pundit points to the history of midterm losses for a sitting president. Drink one.
- A Republican describes a win as a “mandate.” Drink one.
- Newt Gingrich uses an out-of-proportion superlative. Drink three.
- A media pundit advises Obama to “hit the reset button” or fire people who were in no way responsible for anything that transpired on Election Night. Finish your drink.
- A winning candidate praises an opponent that he or she has been brutally savaging for months. Drink one.
- The number of American flags on stage at a candidate’s victory speech exceeds the number of Electoral College votes in that state. Drink three.
- A winning candidate is not wearing a flag pin. Finish your drink.
- The number of on-screen pundits discussing the political impact of the Ebola virus exceeds the number the Americans with the Ebola virus. Finish your drink.
- Someone notes that there’s only 730 days until we do this again. It’s time to call it a night.
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AP's 5 Things To Watch For The Day After The Election... (via @NedraPickler )
SENATE RACES TO WATCH
Republicans marched steadily toward their goal of picking up six seats for control of the Senate, with a handful of outstanding races the determining factor. Democrats were looking to hold on by keeping Iowa and Alaska and hoping to pick up Georgia and Kansas. But one race won't be decided — Louisiana is heading to a Dec. 6 runoff.
OBAMA HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO
What word will President Barack Obama use to describe this election?
Four years ago he called his party's loss of the House a "shellacking."
Look to see if Obama follows the presidential tradition of holding a press conference the day after a midterm election. And since midterms tend to go against the party that occupies the White House, it's not usually a bright spot for presidents.
GRIDLOCK OR ACTION?
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a victory speech vowing to turn the country around.
But then McConnell added: "I don't expect the president to wake up tomorrow and view the world any differently than he did this morning. He knows I won't either."
Obama kicks off the new era by inviting congressional leaders to the White House Friday.
GOVERNORS FROM BOTH PARTIES LOOKING TO HOLD ON
Democrats got some early good news by unseating a Republican governor in Pennsylvania, while Arkansas switched to GOP control. Key races were outstanding across the country, including Wisconsin, Kansas, Georgia, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Illinois and Maine.
REPUBLICANS ON TRACK TO BUILD ON THEIR HOUSE MAJORITY
Watch to see whether the GOP can build their biggest House majority in the post-World War II era. Republicans are widely expected to grow their 234-seats beyond the 2010 tea party wave that led to 242 GOP representatives. If they can win more than 246 seats, they would exceed their numbers from 1947-49 Congress during the Truman administration.
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h/t @LibertyBlitz
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God damn it, we did not get rid of Stuart Smalley. Not that I really wanted the other idiot anyway. And we still have Mark "I have never laid my hand on a shovel" Dayton. Emmer took over for Bachman in a landslipe because we are all rednecks around here. I have met that Emmer guy face to face some years back and I told him that we don't any more laws.
I met the goofball Bachmann a couple of years back at a political convention. She was four feet tall and not representing anyone but herself. Emmer got involved in the 2012 Ron Paul campaign after he lost the race for Governor. The whole idea was compromised at that point. I still supported and I promply lost my good paying job as did every on else who made it that far form the 2008 campaign.
My brothers, I do not forget anything. I may just be a country boy but I do not forget. I have no designs on political power but I know what they did. They really don't want you digging into their financials. Is this ZeroHedge? Yeah, it is. What about the state auditor?
I should have shut my mouth but I didn't. I am paying the price now. I should have never gotten involved because I could not stop them. That is why I want to go home and work with plants.
Silver Getting Monkey Hammered, $15.59
@ $15.00 dollars Silver will be hard to find /buy. All sold out. IMO.
Edit: I have a roll(20 coins) of 2014 Silver Eagles being delivered this Thursday. Paid 383.33 plus 14.45 for shipping.
I must say "now is a good time" if your a stacker. Again, JMHO.
I didn't vote. Never have.
It's easy to vote.......Reading the fine print is the hard part.
Picking a winner is like playing the lottery.
D or R or I Corporations have all candidates in their back pocket. So that's why I don't vote. Plus, I hate talking politics. Like I care or something.
Death and Taxes, that pretty much sums it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBKy8YkmVIQ&list=UUEUavynKuvP44ZHBt0SrFhg
30 Year old interview for those interested.
I used the writein and put Pepe Escobar , Tyler and William Banzai . Tyler for Adjutant General of SC ..I swear.. It should be a landslide! And you can take that to the bank!
I noticed in SC, the only state which elects its AG, there was a ballot initiative to have him selected by the governor.
I sure hope people did not fall for that: anytime you give up the right to a vote, you lose.
the definition of insanity and all that...
remember after the last mid term elections Bohner spewed some crap about "a mandate from America" or some such garbage? then all the neocons got together and read the constitution out loud, touching wasn't it?
of course then they continued to piss on regardless.
it's funny but those elections and referendums in the eastern Ukraine and Crimia which Washington claims were held no legitamacy were more honest, more impactful and more real than what happened today in America.
I really think the happiest person in the country has to be the TOTUS, Obama now knows that he can sit back and hit the links while the neocons take over stearing us right into ww3. all he has to do now is wait for the teleprompter to tell him to issue the order to star bombing some Russian folks.
oh yeah and spoiler alert...obamacare is not being repelled, the NSA is not going to stop spying on everybody, the police will be getting actual tanks now, Putin, ISIS, Iran, Assad, China and the Oathkeepers will meld together to form SPECTURE and the Federal government will continue to run deficets in numbers that exist only to caclulate how much debt the public sector is runing up. all that and ebola will still only spread via close contact with body fluids.
so in short and as always nothing will change...well at least not until we all get free chemo treatments imported from Moscow and thanks exclusively to Washington's arrogent, war mogering, power mad and yet strangly susicidal forgien policy.
another midterm, another day America wasted voting to change the seating arrangements. sad to think that we could have been doing something more constructive with our time, like removing the seats altogether, and the walls, and the ceilings, and the floors to for that matter.
personally I think there should be a mandatory "hug a vomiting ebola victim" day where every member of congress should be required to do just that. might just lend a little perspective.
just another day in the US banana republic of A.
Dude, I guess they already decriminalized grass, cocaine, meth, heroin, PCP, LSD, and argula inserted into Michelle's cunt where you come from. Just a note of caution, however: You should not use all these drugs together, and decidely use less than 10 kilos per use.
Harry Reid said the whalloping his party took means the people want the dems to work with the Republicans. No actually it meant we wish Harry would lay himself down on a busy train track.
You see Harry, you don't work well with others. So you're not invited. Do you remember how you got rid of the 60 vote cloture rule? So do we.
They are calling your name down in the cafeteria. Your toast is ready. Buh bye.
I hope you meant lay "across" the train track.
Sweet, getting up early and being vote #16. I just sent Harry Reid and their ilk home. The POWER is surging through my veins. LOL. Seriously, it was time for the pendulum to swing right to slow down the conversion into a secular european socialist state.
Alright alright.
Now that the GOP has taken control of both chambers of congress they can pass legislation easier to be rejected by Obama. Wait, wait what?
Ok, Ok. If you're not for open boarders it's definitely a....well it doesn't matter because both the GOP and Obama have promised the same thing.
Well if your not for naked aggression towards Russia you wo....no actually still the same.
I know, I know. If you are not for setting the middle east on fire you wo...uh...no still the same.
I got it. If you're not for arming a terrorist group while simultaneously waging war against it you definitely....well, no still the same.
So what changed?
I cannot wait to see if I am alone next time I insult one of these well connected cocksuckers in front of a crowd of sorry ass sycopants.
Any one that joins me will think they are brave.
Some of us did it when it mattered.
For y'all.
For a long time.
If the system somehow holds together, you mutha fuckas had better push Teddy Cruz into the White House.
It's all yours now. I am done. Party time.
Serious.
Oh, and you can now be sure that somewhere along the line Harry Reid will say "I was just about to fast-track the bi-partisan "audit the fed" bill introduced by RonPaul or RandPaul", but sorry, now I can't (for some reason) do that before this congress is done. So now he'll blame the republicans for not bringing "audit the fed" up for a vote (at least until they make sure it doesn't have the votes to pass).
At least Dirty Harry was gut-shot.
Nevada needs to chase the guy out of town.
Fuck ABC and the AP. Is Boehner crying yet?
Given the closed-shop environment of only 2 parties (for now), I'd say the serfs pretty much torched everything they could.
just when you think the US can't sink any lower
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
You really have to wonder about the American voter....to show their dissatisfaction with Obama, they cut off their noses to spite themselves by voting into office the insane Republicans, who hte last time they held a majority in both houses during the 'he-who-must-not-be-mentioined' administration completely overthrew the American Constitution and began a series of wars that continue to this day.
Watch out, World! The Crazies are coming to a military base near you!
Fuck you Harry Reid you fucking faggot.
From willingly brie-bable politician to Mr. Nothing
Nikka Costa (Movie Blow's Push & Pull)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlUHIiTwBzQ
The message to the Obama socialist progressives is to F' off and die so rest of us can live our lives in peace.
All I want to know is which Wall Street Bank owns the most politicians? Is it JPM or GS?
Thank you for your participation in the USSA Knesset Elections.
Never Forget: "Vote-Ink Macht Frei".
I wonder what the participation rate was for this vote, and how that compares to the past?
Obama's paralysis becomes sclerosis.
So its really just a "Do I love or hate Obola contest".
Whatever the result, it's going to be more wars, more debts, more fears, more corruptions, more propaganda, .....
Black Obola was the kiss of death in this election. He infected the governor of Maryland. Nice try Obola. Back to the golf course.
with the help of a huge spike in USJPY US indexes at new all time highs Dow hit 17457
Europe dragged up on the back of this although rubbish figures out of Europe again, and the Draghi rumour not a mention anywhere
GOLD and SILVER absolutely wiped out as ZH mentioned elsewhere someone dumped 1.5 Billion in Gold in the middle of the night WTI <$77
TransPacific Partnership will soon be the Law Of The Land,rendering any last remaining shreds of Soveriegnty left in the Land of the Pervs and the Home of the Slaves irrelevant.What's that? You don't like it? SHUT UP,SLAVE!
Yeah, it's funny how that term TransPacific Partnership has gotten ZERO media coverage. Global Gaza, that's the plan. As in the Ukraine, they'll be harvesting the young women until they're all used up, and then off to the organ harvesting facility. What a sick joke the world is devolving into.
Great Joy!
The stupid fucking Rethuglicans can fuck over murkans even better than the dumbing fucking Demoncrats.
Is there anyway to have an election that will oust everyone of these subhumans and send them packing to Syria or Afghanistan or Iran? Charter a couple of 747s and get them the hell out of here, please, Dear God in Himmelstein, make it come true.
The people of the US need to get rid of every last one of these elected dumbasses who can't do the job they are elected to do.
Is there anyway to begin a pogrom to eliminate all of these shitheads who think they can save us all from ourselves?
Good riddance to both of these groups of untermenschen.
Please, Lord, strike down everyone of the 535 assholes who could give a shit about murkans whatsoever.
There is nothing to celebrate until after they're all gone, gone for good.
All of them, every last one of them.
I don't care who goes first, but get them gone, and soon.
Until it happens, the horror of it all will never cease.
Please, please, please, Lord, make it happen, you can do it, so do it now.
Thank you very much.
Amen
Why all the down votes?
Mine was because he asked the Lord, who doesn't exist, for help in ousting incumbents when the only thing that will accomplish that is for the voters in each state where there are politicians with more than two terms in Senate and 4 terms in the House to throw them out.
Prayer will not accomplish what a simple lever pull will.
Theres a word cloud in here somewhere.
Libtard, Republicrat, Moochelle.
Crushing blow to the Democratic Party. Obama will be on the ticket for the next 100 years. "The Albatross."
Big win for Ukraine. That's about the only change I see. Putin is definitely a big loser as well. Funny to watch Obama's poll numbers collapse as the election wore on. First 45% then 40% now suddenly "really 38%" which I think is charitable. Crushing blows in Maryland and Massachusetts. Lots of undecideds still too. Mary Mandrieu looks like a sitting duck though.
"The jobless prosperity" rolls on.
Gee Wally, since the Repubes won it's going to be all baseball, mom and apple pie for the next two years.
STFU Beav, you're such a 'tard.
I'm pretty sure if you look up mealy-mouthed cunt in the encyclopedia, there you'll find that pic of McConnell.
Of course Reid's pic is right next to his...that should go without saying. But here, no.
In a contest between the evil partyD and the stupid partyR, I just couldn't bring myself to care this year.
Breaking a lifelong habit of traipsing into "the polls" to do my civic doody on the designated Tuesday, I stayed home realizing that the only dogs I have in this fight have been infected with rabies by the deluded bought-&-sold scum who pretend to represent us.
I did vote ,but held my nose, I finally decided it would give me more of a right to complain.
And the Left Right smokescreen continues.
thesze results shouldnt surprise, doubt they do. faux is the highest watched "news" in the nation now...
sheeple love their propaganda.. especially when it has big tits, big hair, tribe members everywhere, and jebus is comin! and lots of scary conformity bias!
Yay!
A few less abortions and a few less anti-gun laws.
the corporate media that covers these elections thoroughly purports to represent the opinions and outlooks of mainstream america.
But the largest group of voters is independent, not Dem OR GOP. And about half the eligible voters do not even vote.
The takeaway is that most of america does not trust the Dems OR GOP to represent them.
Yet the media's coverage of elections does not reflect this skepticism.
The media and the dems and GOP and the govt and the corporations and the major american institutions are all AGAINST the majority working class american.
They are united against us, the largest bloc of americans. Never forget that the Dems and GOP and media are against you, your enemy. And this election shows that the media is with the institutions and against you.
You are correct IMHO.
Vote third party or don't bother voting at all.
I agree.