The Silver Lining for the Democratic Party?  How about this; it is the same silver lining the Republican Party in 2008.  Since the late 1800s, the ballot laws have ensured the two parties’ continued existence.  In the first century of the nation, the parties printed and distributed their ballots, a process which allowed for the orderly bankruptcy of the Federalist and Whig Parties.

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The nature of the parties’ existence, on the other hand…

It appears the Republican Party has lost Majority Party status in Colorado, with an assist from Sarah Palin’s late endorsement of Tancredo.  That probably doesn’t change anything much, though.

The race I was watching closely was the Coburn / Rogers race in Oklahoma.  Unfortunately, Jim Rogers lost.  He ran a good race, though.  I’ll have to look up his Concession Speech.
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Question of the day: Why is it, that every time I read down in the comments on some blog or news item about Tom Coburn, there’s a distinctive “God Bless Dr. Coburn” comment?  There appears to be a particular and peculiar type of “Coburn follower”, a sort of more religious version of the Paulites.

By the way — I’ll look up the Rand Paul ballyhoo from his crankier national base later.  But if you would, let me know where there’s a vast sea or collection of them.

  An orderly landslide.  The Republicans won all the seats they were expected to win easily, all the seats they were expected to win narrowly, a good share of the toss-ups, a handful of the seats the Democrats were expected to win narrowly, and one seat the Democrats were expected to win easily.  And Rasmussen was exposed as a Republican tool.
And the map that was before, geographically speaking, an even red and blue balance (as from the Republican rural advantage against the Democratic urban advantage) is now pretty well blood red.  In the turns of history, the public there comes back round to this view.
And so, she won.
The Blue Dogs have been cut in half, from 46 to 23.  And there goes Walt Minnick, the entire Idaho State Democratic party I gather.  This is inevitable in such a massive defeat.

What is fascinating about this election, and what is a little hard to figure out, the thing I noted a while ago, is the discreprency between the blow out in the House and the sort of middling level defeat in the Senate.  If these two results correlated, a 65 seat House turn-over should result in the Senate flip.  Conversely, a 6 Senate seat change-over ought to correlate with, maybe 40 House seats?
It makes some sense, though.  The lines of the districts are drawn fairly tightly, and consider the fate of the 23 Blue Dogs as representative.  They are routed out of the South, which already hold Republican Senate seats, and out of the Rural “Rust-belt” heartland, where Joe Sestack and Russ Feingold and on to Alexi Giannoulias attempted to stem the tide with urban and college-town centers.
The corporate backers of the “Tea Party Express” had better get to work figuring out the kinks of their machine.
Palin had a bad night, but it’s deceptive enough to make it seem like a good night.

The 2010 representatives of the 1994’s Mike Huffington / Oliver North — just a little bit too crazy to get elected in favorable election climates are… Sharron Angle and Ken Buck.

I have to suggest that the Republican losers had the most remarkably insane Concession speeches.  It’s an interesting trend.

Sharron Angle.
Christine O’Donnell, who — you know, destroyed the Delaware Republican Party, thus making the “Delaware Political System” never being the same with “The Republican Party never” being the same — which is, electable.
The race was good for her career, I gather.
Further, she made an appeal for Chris Coons to, um, re-instate the Bush Tax Cuts.  Watch the infomercial she botched in the delivery to air on Public Access.

Then there’s the Gracious Concession speech from Carl Paladino.  Er? 

Mellow out?  Or, you can’t.  Pot went down across the country.
California Proposition 19 was defeated.  This is good news for Pot Smokers, for these reasons.
Last night I asked my girlfriend’s 18 year-old son if he was going to vote for Prop 19, in what is his first opprtunity to vote. He surprised me with a no. His reasoning? It’s more exciting if it’s illegal.
AND
Any smart marijuana smoker would vote no on 19. By legalizing marijuana the prices would only escalate by the government. Therefore, underground dealers will also raise their prices. Paying more for the same stuff except it’s legal. Citizens would rather take the risk then spend more.
Hm.

Whatever Obama’s fortunes here on out — and I’d say he’s still the favorite to win the 2012 Race, based partially on a theory of Election politics which held his 2008 victory as rather uniquely a coalition of unlikely voters and his 2010 defeat based off a base off everyone who voted against him in 2008 —
— It may be that the midterm route, in the current political era, is by nature of the electoral beast heightened for Democratic Presidencies, but we’ve only two case studies for this.
Or it may be that we’re in an era of the depressed diaspora holds that the winner is the one who rides in off of rather fabricated well – marketed “Revolutions” —
Well, He’s Big In China.

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