what the pundits won’t tell you

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MT @RussOnPolitics History made in Rhode Island. Gina Raimondo elected governor. First woman gov & first Dem since 92
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Wendy Davis lost, Latino voters in Texas favored her over Republican Greg Abbott by a 68%-32% margin, @LatinoDecisions says.
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Don’t let anyone say Udall lost because he ran on women’s issues. In 2012, Obama won women in #CO by only 3pts. Udall won women by 9pts.
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Good news for Dems, in 2016 GOP will be defending 22 Senate seats
10:36 PM - 4 Nov 2014

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/04/what-the-pundits-wont-tell-you/

[mahina]

1. Thank you~

aloha!

[Cha]

9. Aloha mahina! I see Brian won.. I can't find anything about David Ige though?

[mahina]

26. oh he's waaay ahead, Mark Takai too.

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[Cha]

28. Now I know.. I made a thread on it.. but, when I asked you..everything I googled would not bring

up David Ige. I'm so happy right now because I was wondering with all the gop shite flyin' around if it had infected Hawaii, too. But, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025763872

Mahalo mahina & Hawai!

[mahina]

30. Thank God for our deep blue kupuna

who always, always, always vote.

Aloha no Cha

[Cha]

31. Ohhh, I just looked up "kapuna".. mahalo, mahina!

Very emotional NOW!

Aloha no, mahina

[maced666]

2. Yay

[steve2470]

3. kick & rec ! nt

[Jamaal510]

4. More potentially good news to add

"Good news for Dems, in 2016 GOP will be defending 22 Senate seats"

to this: the seats the GOP won tonight will all be up in 2020 at the time of reapportionment.

[shenmue]

5. If I live that long

[Cha]

10. Good to know, Jamaal! Thank you for that

Bright Spot!

[sheshe2]

11. Good news, Thanks Jamaal

[TexasTowelie]

20. Reapportionment of Senate seats in 2020 won't be affected by the census.

There are two senators for each state so there is nothing to reapportion. The House seats won't be reapportioned until 2022 since the census occurs in April and several states hold primaries prior to the census.

[Jamaal510]

22. Learned something there.

Oh well...2020 is still a presidential election year, at least, so there's that.

[IronLionZion]

41. If the republic lasts that long

Tea party might drown us all in the bath tub

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. Calling him Mark Uterus, what a disgrace to all women Gardner is. And stupid women voted for him.

[Cha]

7. Oh good.. I was going to do this.. thank you, she! Gina Raimondo First woman gov & first Dem

since 92!

And, all the other good news! Funny ol world.. all these states getting gop.. and then along comes Rhode Island and makes History with a Democratic Woman as Governor!:

Why President Obama supports Gina Raimondo..

[sheshe2]

12. My friend voted for her there!

She will do good for my sister state, Cha.

[Cha]

15. Cool.. you know someone who voted for Gina!

[Stardust]

8. K&R on a night I definitely need some good news. Thank you. nt

[sheshe2]

13. I did too Stardust.

[freshwest]

14. Okay, I'll step back from the ledge, now.

Some days, I play all three parts. Riggs, his partner and the jumper. It's a busy life. Thanks, Sheshe.

[sheshe2]

19. They'll be days like this my momma said.

Ya, I took a step back too after I posted this, freshwest. Perfect video addition.

You are welcome

[jillan]

16. South Dakota, Arkansas and Nebraska vote to raise minimum wage.

But then they turn around a vote for people that won't give them a raise.... But it's a start!

[Capt.Rocky300]

17. Not to rain on your parade, but...............

The 22 Republican seats are mostly in hardcore red states......... just a couple that we might be able to flip. And Harry Reid is up in Nevada which could go badly for us.

This was updated just a hour or so ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2016

[AverageJoe90]

18. Thanks for posting this, sheshe.

There's at least *some* good news tonight.

[shireen]

21. thank you

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Another thing the pundits wont tell you is that America did NOT reject Obama's achievments....

Nor did it reject "Liberals".

Hell, listening to Republicans giving victory speeches would give one the impression that it was a big win for the working class.

There were blue collar types who "believe in working for a living" and voted against "the food stamp party" or "the welfare party" or voted to stop the Negro Islamic army from stealing their guns and Bibles and making their daughters marry Mexicans.

You know,...Mexico,...that desert where Isis is running around in pickumup trucks and let's all thank Jesus H. Christ on a cracker for redneck Texas sheriffs on FOX "News".

[C Moon]

24. I'm already loving the positive views coming out of DU on this thread.

Awesome!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. sheshe2 !!

[sheshe2]

27. And~

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10:43 PM - 4 Nov 2014 Brooklyn, NY, United States

We may have lost some things, yet we gained some precious ones too. We keep moving forward Tuesday Afternoon.

Thanks

[Tuesday Afternoon]

32. LOVE YOU, SHESHE2 !!! Rising up and Moving On !!!

!!! Hell Yeah !!! !!! Hell Yeah !!!

[angrychair]

29. silver threads

tarnished silver threads. Rethugs have 250 seats...historical is scope. It would take 2 VERY SUCCESSFUL election cycles to overcome it as a BEST CASE SCENARIO. of the 22 seats in 2016, almost all are in red states. Very little chance of serious gains. In short, we are looking at a decade or more of misery. This could put the dems out in the cold for a VERY LONG TIME.

I will likely never see a Dem majority again in my lifetime. We will likely be at boots-on-the-ground war in the Middle East in less than 12 months. Hell, we'll likely give the whole damn country to Putin in the next 12 months. They love him so much.

[sheshe2]

33. Wow. Thank you for all your positive energy.

You have already ruled out wins in 2016.

And then you say this?????

We will likely be at boots-on-the-ground war in the Middle East in less than 12 months. Hell, we'll likely give the whole damn country to Putin in the next 12 months. They love him so much.

So what exactly are you saying here, that Obama is going to start a war? WTF!

[angrychair]

37. No, not ruling out wins in 2016

doesn't change the fact that even if we won EVERY OPEN HOUSE SEAT in 2016, rethugs will still have a large majority. Doesn't change the reality that of the 22 rethug seats coming up in 2016, almost all of them are in solid red states. Best case is to hold any open Dem seats. Our chances of gains are very small.
31 Governor seats. We lost Maryland tonight. Dems hold only 15 state chief executive seats.

The comments you highlighted was my attempt at dark humor.

Not my point to huddle into a ball and cry and wail and cover my head in ash. My point is that we are at a VERY UGLY spot in history. We went from being on the rise in 2012 to being almost irrelevant in 2014. Not just irrelevant for an election cycle but likely for several. Congressional boundries will not likely be redrawn until 2022. We cannot assume that it would be anymore in our favor than the last one. State elections matter. Midterm elections matter. We didn't learn that lesson. We are going to learn the hard way how much it matters. I don't know all the answers but I am not foolish as to not realize we went from the frying pan to the fire.

[Hekate]

34. Thanks, sheshe. You are a love.

What a night.

[sheshe2]

35. We need a~

Hekate.

[davidpdx]

36. Sheshe, while all those are nice

We got our collective asses kicked tonight. I just don't see any way to positively spin this.

[Skittles]

39. they'll do anything they can to avoid reality

I have been sick of it for a long time

[Skittles]

38. still looking at the shiny objects?

[sheshe2]

40. Love you too Skittles...

From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you for such an overwhelming positive post.

Give me a fricking break! Oh ya, I know I am a stupid mindless person that you just felt the need to attack tonight. Wow I just see shiny objects. I am a person at the end of your keyboard. Don't trash me, I did nothing to you.

We had a loss tonight, yet all is not lost, if you wish to see it that way, go somewhere else.

This is a night that we should be pulling together. Ha. Not you~

[Cha]

42. I linked your thread in this post. she..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=937690

Good Mornin! & Mahalo~