Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Political Bloodbath for Democrats in the Midterms

There is just no other way to put it. The Democrats were beaten bad in last night's midterm.

House
Republicans have picked up at least 10 seats raising their minimum seat count in the next congress to 243, one more than the 242 they had after the 2010 elections and their are 14 races yet to be called.

Senate
Republicans held all of their own seats and picked up seats in: West Virginia, South Dakota, Montana, Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina and Iowa for a minimum pickup of 7. And there are 2 races to be decided: Alaska, where Republican Dan Sullivan leads incumbent Senator Mark Begich by 4 points, but it has yet to be called, and Louisiana where it will head to a runoff in December,
Three Democratic incumbents have been defeated: Mark Pryor in Arkansas, Mark Uall in Colorado and Kay Hagan in North Carolina. This could go as high as 5 if Mark Begich loses in Alaska and Mary Landrieu loses in Louisiana.
Democrats held off a challenge by Scott Brown in New Hampshire and will also likely win in Virginia where the elections results gave a scare to Democrats turning out to be much closer than they had thought.

Gubernatorial
Republicans lost Pennsylvania decisively, incumbent Governor Corbett lost to Democrat Tom Wolf and look likely to lose Alaska where independent candidate Bill Walker is leading Republican Governor Sean Parnell.
But they held onto the rest of their seats. They fended off challenges in Wisconsin, Florida, Maine, and Kansas. While they picked up seats in: Arkansas, Illinois, Massachusetts and Maryland.
Republicans lost one incumbent, Pennsylvania and will lose two if Parnell loses in Alaska. Democrats only lost one incumbent, in Illinois.

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