How Big Was It??

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I think we need a thread to list just how big a win this was and what the election did for us…

Democrats shrink GOP's majority in Arizona Senate

PHOENIX (AP) — Republicans maintained control of the Arizona Legislature but Democrats picked up four additional Senate seats in Tuesday's general election, producing predictions there the Legislature will be more moderate and feature more work across party lines.

Incumbent John McComish and Rep. Chester Crandell prevailed in Senate races in two battleground districts, but other key races saw Democratic Reps. Ed Ableser and Steve Farley and ex-Reps. David Bradley and Barbara McGuire win in others.

The results and in other contested races will leave Republicans with a 17-13 Senate majority, down from the 21-9 supermajority they now hold after winning four additional seats in 2010.

Republicans now hold a 40-19 edge in the House, where there is also one independent, but Democrats were on track to gain additional seats in that chamber as well.


http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...y-in-Arizona-Senate-4011397.php#ixzz2Bhlviwqp
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Then there's this……


Democrats swept Dallas County races and secured a super majority on the Commissioners Court during Tuesday’s election.

Despite an FBI investigation, Democratic Commissioner John Wiley Price handily beat Republican challenger Charles “Lingy” Lingerfelt. County Commissioner District 1 candidate Theresa Daniel, also a Democrat, defeated Republican opponent Larry Miller for the seat being vacated by Republican Commissioner Maurine Dickey.

Victories for Daniel and Price give Democrats a 4-1 majority on the court.

Democratic Sheriff Lupe Valdez won a third term, defeating Republican challenger Kirk Launius. Democratic county Tax Assessor-Collector John R. Ames defeated Republican challenger Andrew Marcontell. Democrats also led three contested county judgeships.


http://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...21107-democrats-sweep-dallas-county-races.ece
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And this……..

Republicans lose supermajority in Florida House.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Three Republican incumbents lost Tuesday in the Florida House, where Democrats gained half a dozen seats, meaning they'll no longer be forced to deal with a GOP super majority that effectively left them procedurally powerless the past two legislative sessions.

A fourth Republican was on the ropes. Rep Chris Dorworth, slated to become House speaker in two years, is headed to an automatic recount after finishing 37 votes shy of Democratic challenger Mike Clelland.

Dorworth, elected in 2007, has been haunted by personal and financial issues in his re-election bid.

State Reps. Peter Nehr, Scott Plakon and Shawn Harrison were upset as Democrats cut their deficit to 79-41 in the House. If Clelland's lead holds up in the recount, the Democrats would gain a seventh House seat to go along with U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson's re-election and President Obama's apparent victory here.


http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...se-in-Florida-House-4014174.php#ixzz2BhmZ4n4L
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Republicans lose supermajority in Texas House

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans lost their 102-member supermajority in the Texas House early Wednesday, opening the door for Democrats to slow or block the majority's conservative agenda or demand compromise.

Democrats have won more than 50 seats in the 150-member lower chamber of the Legislature. That means Republicans can no longer suspend the rules to push through legislation over the objections of minority Democrats.

Last year, Republicans had enough lawmakers to form a quorum without any Democrat showing up for work. Now Democrats could shut down state lawmaking if they wished.

Democrats added seats mostly through redistricting, which occurs every 10 years when the new U.S. Census is released. Texas added more than 4.3 million people between 2000 and 2010 and 89 percent of them were minorities.



http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/ar...rity-in-Texas-House-4017513.php#ixzz2BhkTehKu
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I'll add as I get the information...or some of you will. Don't forget this was after the republicans had their way by gerrymandering districts to make it harder if not impossible for democrats to win. I've seen the maps and that's what they did. So yes baggers, it's a mandate and it was huge.

One last thing, Obama has 3 million more votes than Romney as of the present count. This was not a close race.

Gerrymander, SuperPAC Cash Saved GOP’s Bacon in the House, Where They Got Less Votes

By: David Dayen Thursday November 8, 2012 7:45 am

Just a brief postscript to the House elections, which as I said were really decided in Republican state legislatures in 2011 during the redistricting process. It turns out that, on a vote-by-vote basis, more Americans voted for Democrats than Republicans for Congressional seats, currently by about half a million votes. That’s subject to change once all the votes get counted, but it will probably result in a BIGGER victory for Democrats, given that provisionals and late absentees skew Democratic, and the states with the most uncounted votes, like California, are blue.

How did this happen? The gerrymander. That kept states which voted for President Obama locked into Republican delegations for Congress. Nick Baumann has a good rundown:

North Carolina, which Obama lost by around 2 percentage points: 9-4 GOP
Florida, which Obama won by around half a percentage point: 17-10 GOP
Ohio, which Obama won by nearly 2 percentage points: 10-4 GOP
Virginia, which Obama won by around 3 percentage points: 8-3 GOP
Pennsylvania, which Obama won by nearly 5 percentage points: 8-5 GOP
Wisconsin, which Obama won by 6 percentage points: 5-3 GOP
Michigan, which Obama won by 8 percentage points: 9-5 GOP
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Lawmakers simply chose voters in those states, rather than the other way around.

Despite this gerrymander – and helped by a favorable redistricting process in some Democratic states like Maryland and California and Illinois – Democrats are likely to pick up 7 seats in the House, for a total split of 235-200. If you take the Brennan Center report showing that redistricting solidified Republican majorities by at least 11 seats, then you have an effective 18 pickups in 2012. For context, Democrats secured 20 pickups in the “wave” year of 2008.

I still think you can thank the post-Citizens United universe for some of the Republican success in the House at well. It’s clear to me that you can shift an electorate in under-the-radar, low-profile races much more easily than in a Presidential or Senate race. It’s amusing to see the Big Money Boys with their knives out for Karl Rove, and to be sure he’s a grifter that lit a lot of their money on fire for personal reward, which is pretty much the modus operandi of conservatism. But some of that SuperPAC money did make a difference, and ensured divided, gridlocked government that gives the rich a greater chance to hold onto their tax cuts. In fact, you can see how SuperPAC cash shifted races on both sides:

The drama in northern Minnesota was mirrored in dozens of races across the country in the final days of the campaign. Much of the money came from anonymous donors. Republican-leaning groups generally outspent Democratic groups, but not by much as Democrats had feared early in the election cycle.

The executive director of the House Majority PAC, Alixandria Lapp, had been watching races like this one closely, trying to make sure viable Democratic candidates did not suffer a repeat of the 2010 onslaught from groups like American Action Network and Crossroads GPS. In 2010, she estimates that Republican candidates received three times as much outside money as Democrats.

“This year things are better,” she said in a recent interview. “We are outspent one and a half to one.”
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That would explain the seven-seat Democratic gain, where a full assault not distracted by the top of the ticket could have translated into Democratic losses.

These rich donors are talking about how they’re burned out. Maybe they’ll close their wallets for 2014. But they’ll probably take a look at how they can be effective, and return to protect the GOP majority in the House.
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Citizens United has to go and we need to standardize our elections to keep them free and legal.....and to keep the dirty tricks and outright stealing from happening again....EVER!!
 
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How big was it???

The Nation: "For Obama, A Bigger Win Than for Kennedy, Nixon, Carter or Bush (an implied mandate)



For Obama, a Bigger Win Than for Kennedy, Nixon, Carter or Bush

John Nichols on November 7, 2012

It wasn’t even close. That’s the unexpected result of the November 6 election. And President Obama and his supporters must wrap their heads around this new reality—just as their Republican rivals are going to have to adjust to it.

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Despite a brief delay by Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and the commentators on Fox News, Obama claimed his victory on election night not the next day, as Richard Nixon did in 1960, or even later, as George Bush in 2000.

And it was a real victory.

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By the time Romney conceded at 1 am, Obama had a 250,000 popular-vote lead, and it grew to roughly 2 million by dawn.

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Obama’s win was bigger than John Kennedy’s in 1960 (303 electoral votes, popular vote margin of 112,827), bigger than Richard Nixon’s in 1968 (301 electoral votes, popular vote plurlaity of 512,000), bigger than Jimmy Carter’s in 1976 (297 electoral votes, popular vote margin of 1,683,247), bigger than George W. Bush’s in 2000 (271 electoral votes and a popular vote loss of 543,816).

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Significantly, Rove’s man, George W. Bush won his 2004 re-election run with just 286 electoral votes, and faced serious challenges to the result in the state that put him across the 270 line: Ohio.

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Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid do not need to be “reformed.”

They need to be strengthened and expanded.

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.....The President and Congress should stand with the people who elected them and reject any cuts in Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, strengthen Medicare by expanding it to cover everyone, and insist that Wall Street begin to repay our nation for the damage it caused our economy with a small tax on Wall Street speculation, the Robin Hood tax.”

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The place to begin is with a project he mentioned just before the Democratic National Convention: amending the constitution to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

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Seeking to amend the constitution to reform our election system is an ambitious endeavor, especially for a president who has just beaten the combined power of Karl Rove and his billionaire boys club.


http://www.thenation.com/blog/171085/obama-bigger-win-kennedy-nixon-carter-or-bush
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except for Colorado, all the the "gains" the Democrats made were in traditionally Democrat states.....does this really feel "huge" to you?.....
 
its the biggest one party win since FDR.

the right will just deny it like they do all facts they dont like
 
What won't happen now that Obama was elected. A list from Rachel Maddow...and a good one I think.

(1) “We are not going to have a Supreme Court that will overturn Roe vs. Wade. There will be no more Antonin Scalias and Samuel Alitos added to this court.”


(2) “We’re not going to repeal health reform. Nobody’s going to kill Medicare and make old people in this generation — or any other generation — fight it out on the open market to try to get themselves health insurance. We’re not going to do that.”


(3) “We’re not going to give the 20% tax cut to millionaires and billionaires, and expect programs like food stamps and kids’ health insurance to cover that tax cut.”


(4) “We’re not going to make you clear it with your boss if you want to get birth control with the insurance plan that you’re on.”


(5) “We are not going to redefine rape.”


(6) “We are not going to amend the constitution to stop gay people from getting married.”


(7) We’re not going to double down on Guantanamo.


(8) “We’re not eliminating the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, or Housing at the Federal level.”


(9) “We are not going to spend two trillion dollars on the military, that the military does not want.”


(10) “We are not scaling back on student loans because the country’s NEW plan is that you should borrow money from your parents.”


(11) “We are not vetoing the Dream Act, we are not ‘self-deporting.’”


(12) “We are not letting Detroit go bankrupt.”


(13) “We are not starting a trade war with China on Inauguration Day in January.”


(14) “We are not going to have — as a president — a man who once led a mob of friends to run down a scared gay kid to hold him down and forcibly cut his hair off with a pair of scissors while that kid cried and screamed for help. (And there was NO apology, not EVER.)”


(15) “We are not going to have a Secretary of State John Bolton. We are not going to bring Dick Cheney Back. We are not going to have a foreign policy shop stocked with architects of the Iraqi war, we are not going to do it … We had the choice to do that if we wanted to do that, as a country, and we said no, last night, loudly.”
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NO means NO!!!!
 
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