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Election 2010: Regional Polarization in GOP House Gains
Larry Sabato’s map above pretty much shows it all.Every red dot represents a Republican pick-up (66 in all). The three blue dots are the sum total of Democratic takeovers in GOP districts (Delaware-AL, Louisiana-2, and Hawaii-1). The net Republican gain appears to settling in at 63. Thirty-three states gave the GOP at least one additional seat.
The Election Day “wave” for the Republicans produced a bumper crop of 23 new seats in the South and Border States, where the GOP traditionally does well. This region accounted for more than a third of total Republican gains.
But the key to the Republican House takeover occurred in the North Central states through the industrial Midwest. Pennsylvania (5), Ohio (5), and most surprisingly, New York (6) and Illinois (4) joined Indiana (2), Maryland (1), Michigan (2), Minnesota (1), New Hampshire (2), and New Jersey (1) in shifting a regional total of 29 to the GOP.
A good deal of this is simply a restoration of the pre-2006 status quo. Republicans lost some previously safe seats in the Democratic years of 2006 and 2008, and what goes around, comes around.
The Democrats captured traditionally Republican Congressional seats in 2006 and 2008 because of one factor: displeasure with President George W. Bush. With Bush out of office, suddenly the GOP gains. Of course, Obama and his far left minions in the Congress helped push Democrats to the LEFT and made them vulnerable.
Has normalcy been restored with a regional polarization of political parties?
I would say yes with the national Democratic Party having become a two state (California and New York), and ethnic based party (African Americans, Jews and Latinos). -
The Dickishness of the GOP or Should it Be Obama?
Andrew Sullivan makes an ass out of himself again with:
What we’ve observed these past two years is a political party that knows nothing but scorched earth tactics, cannot begin to see any merits in the other party’s arguments, refuses to compromise one inch on anything, and has sought from the very beginning to do nothing but destroy the Obama presidency.
Projection is Sullivan’s problem.
Remember the PORKULUS economic stimulus plan and ObamaCare which were rammed through the Congress without any GOP input.
Remember Obama saying, “I won?”
Sullivan is either intentionally forgetful or a moron.
Probably both……
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Day By Day December 2, 2010 – Cut Out the Middleman
Sarah Palin and American voters care wit not what Ed Rollins, now a CNN media pundit has to say. Rollins who ran Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign in 1984 and who lately ran Mike Huckabee’s 2008 failed Presidential campaign is flailing about as usual. He really does not have to remind us about Reagan’s past and his legacy.Sarah Palin is NOT Ronald Reagan.
Does Sarah Palin hold the same or very similar views on the role of government?
You betcha.
I remind Ed Rollins and other “establishment” Republican types is that the 2012 Presidential nomination will be decided the old fashion way – by voting in elections. Everything else by the pundits, like Rollins, is nothing but HOT AIR.
Here is John McCain on Sarah Palin and Reagan:
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