Politics

Obama spokesman refuses to admit Democrats lost. This is bizarre. Even the leftist media laughed at him.

Democrats' constant racial agitation cost them white voters. They also lost black, Hispanics, young and women voters.

New black southern senator calls out Democrats race-baiting.

""The lowest common denominator of fear and race-baiting is something that the other party has tried to do, and the voters said 'No.' They rejected this," Scott said during a Wednesday night interview on Fox News' "Hannity.""

So does Condoleezza Rice.

How did pollsters miss the Republican wave?

"Republicans out-performed their poll numbers in race after race Tuesday, raising questions about pro-Democratic bias in this year's election's polls — a major turnaround from the pro-GOP bias in 2012's polls."

The two aren't comparable. Republican pollsters missed in 2012, not all pollsters, and they only missed by a small margin.

"Nate Silver, whose FiveThirtyEight website pioneered the averaging of polls to help produce predictions in major races, reported that the average Senate poll in the past three weeks overestimated the Democratic performance by 4 points. That's a major turnaround from two years ago, when Senate polls in the final weeks of the campaign overestimated Republican performance by 3.4 points."

That's closer than I thought.

"FiveThirtyEight missed on two Senate predictions. North Carolina's incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan was given a 69% chance of winning. She lost by 1.7 points. Greg Orman, an independent candidate for the Kansas Senate, was given a 53% chance of victory. He lost by 10.7 points.
Other major polling misses included Senate races in Arkansas, where Republican Tom Cotton won by 17 points after polls showed him with a lead of 5-7 points, and in Iowa, where Jodi Ernst defeated her Democratic opponent by 7 points after most polls showed her with a lead of less than 3 points."

Those are double-digit errors. I don't remember any double-digit errors in 2012.

The lower voter turnout gets, the more one party will dominate elections like Republicans dominated this one.

Gun control advocates forced universal background checks in Washington.

"Largely overshadowed by the GOP's capture of the Senate, the Washington vote is being touted by gun control advocates as a potential template for establishing universal background checks as a condition of all gun sales throughout the country."

Let's hope that gets stopped elsewhere and beaten back in Washington.

Appeals court upholds Ohio's gay marriage ban.

"This new decision could force a showdown at the Supreme Court and lead to a nationwide ruling on the constitutionality of such bans."

That was probably the reason for the decision.

Boehner promises another meaningless, symbolic vote to repeal Obamacare.