Tom Cotton and Mike Grounds projected to win. Senate Magic number is now 3 for GOP. BREAKING: CNN projects former Gov. Mike Rounds (R) wins South Dakota Senate seat http://t.co/rsJqIulkwe #CNNElection pic.twitter.com/AGrSFHO5AZ— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 5, 2014 BREAKING: CNN projects Rep. Tom Cotton (R) unseats Senator Mark Pryor in Arkansas http://t.co/YyXedLDu7B #CNNElection pic.twitter.com/L0Kv3A4OGR— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 5, 2014
So Nebraska and Arkansas overwhelmingly vote for minimum wage hikes. Goes to show that this would be a winning issue in a national vote and should be on top of the democrat agenda for '16 ...
Where is Scott Brown's next house? Massachusetts looks to vote for earned sick time for part time workers.
Supposedly Kay Hagan is going to hold her seat. If so, she's the first Dem to win reelection to the Senate in NC since Sam Ervin won reelection in 1970 or something. Thom Tillis was a leader in the NC House as it enacted a real tea party type agenda. In particular, teachers got hit like they usually do when the current type of Republicans get power. The thing is, Tillis' campaign basically attacked Hagan for the cuts because she had been in the state Senate up until 2008. The economy tanked that year which led to deficits which necessitated tax increases and spending cuts. Then the GOPs took over in 2010 and cut taxes, which necessitated more spending cuts. I figured the issue polling must have been pretty disturbing to Tillis; he wanted to make the race about the ACA but that failed. He had to make it about the very unpopular cuts to education, which he led the efforts to put into place, and that didn't work. I would have been pretty ********ing depressed if Tillis had gotten away with the Big Lie.
Yeah, it's times like this I wonder why Democrats bother to run in red states at all. It doesn't matter how awesome they are, they just lose.
Don't blame Minnesota ... we protected Franken keeping both our senators blue and our blue governor is on his way too ...
New York is effectively a one-party state. There hasn't been a credible non-Democratic contender for statewide office since George Pataki.
Jon Stewart says it best http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...s-israel-relations-is-officially-here/382031/
Part of it is due to the gross incompetence of the Texas Dems, as witnessed tonight when they squandered an opportunity, if any opportunity at all, to win the open Governor's office.
. I'm from there. Long story short, they couldn't maintain whatever momentum Wendy had from the filibuster. No surprise.