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Well, I voted! Did you?
I got myself a nifty little sticker, and a free t-shirt courtesy of my college. A few years ago, they gave us coupons for a free Frosty milkshake at Wendy’s, but hey, these are hard economic times for us all. No Frosty for me.
But, I got a sticker and t-shirt! Fun times. Unfortunately, though, those were the only pluses in a day full of minuses: minuses, that is, for the Democrats. The Dems lost sixty seats in the House and six seats in the Senate, which means they’ve held onto the latter but lost control of the former. Certainly, Election Day didn’t ring out the Doomsday bells for the Democratic Party the way many pundits predicted it would, but – as they did lose the House – it means that the Dems and President Obama are in for one Congress-sized headache. The Republican Party is out for blood, and it will be interesting to see how Obama functions after this loss. In fact, I found a fascinating article from Lou Cannon at Politics Daily. It discusses how Obama can emulate Ronald Reagan’s reelection after he did miserably in his midterms. I encourage you to read it; the full article can be found here.
And, alas, as the polls had predicted for quite some time, Carol did miserably in the election, and fell to Frank Guinta. She only got 42.7% of the vote, while Guinta won with 53.8%. The full election results for New Hampshire’s District 1 – as well as the entire country – can be found here on the New York Time’s website. Although it was glaringly obvious for some time that Guinta would win, I was still hoping that Shea-Porter would hold onto the seat for reasons I explained in my last post.
Of course, since the election, one can see an obvious difference in the way each candidate feels about the results by looking at how quickly they have updated their websites; if at all. Naturally, Guinta was quick to put an obligatory statement on his website thanking voters and promising to fulfill the promises he made during the campaign. In stark contrast to Guinta’s jubilations (as of when I wrote this post) Carol hasn’t updated her campaign website or her official Congressional website since the election (not even a dejected Tweet, Carol?). In fact, the way that you look at the websites now, it’s like the election never even happened and Carol’s still a Congresswoman again! Hooray! Maybe that’s the way she wants it.
Well, I think that’s all I have the energy to cover. Let’s face it: it had been an exhausting election cycle. Exhausting, vicious, stressful…and I’m not even a candidate! But I might have the perfect anecdote for all this. If you’re any kind of history buff, politics buff, or just appreciate a good laugh, then watch this clip. It lampoons how “dirty” this 2010 election cycle was supposed to be with the notoriously nasty election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Be warned: every ridiculous quote and accusation was really used! Enjoy.
First, the video on the election of 1800 was very funny. The point to suggest that Obama emulate Reagan is very interesting. Perhaps if Obama assumes a more moderate stance in order to compromise and pass legislation in a GOP dominated Congress, he will be able to get re-elected to a second term (which seems to be his main focus now) as previous Presidents did whose party lost seats in the midterms (namely Reagan, Clinton, and FDR as mentioned in the article cited above).
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