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  1. I agree. While I was underwhelmed by the results of the federal government races, the gains in the states are very impressive and make me more hopeful.

    Regardless of which party is in power, I do wish that redistricting could be done by bipartisan or nonpartisan commissions, which would draw rational boundaries based mainly on geographical features and neighborhoods. It’s probably a forlorn hope, I realize.

  2. One of the interesting thing about that too is that probably means most just hit a straight republican ticket.

    Attorney General? How many of them really even campaign much? There may be a few districts that your state legislators do so too, but not very many. Those are votes that typically either go party line or if you know someone was an idiot.

    That shows how *strong* the backlash against what was going on happened. The Dems are trying their best to stick their heads in the sand (Obama has already once told the new Republicans they have to get in line behind him – um yea, lets see how well that works out).

  3. Wish I could get more enthusiastic over last Tuesday, but here in CT, it was business as usual in this deeply blue state. I’m resigned to most of the races, but one irks me no end. Our 78 yr old state senator who has held the office for as long as I’ve lived in this town was re-elected again. Many years ago an opponent aptly described her as “never having met a tax she didn’t love”. She’s the epitome of a Democratic busybody who wants to control all aspects of people’s lives…. ugh!

    Like NY, etc. I think soon CT will be singing “California here we come!” as it follows that state into financial oblivion.

  4. Here’s a good short piece by Fred Siegel of City Journal on the coming “class war”:

    http://city-journal.org/2010/eon1103fs.html

    Like everyone else here – or everyone I’ve seen post on the matter – I’m against bailing out Cali or NY in principle.

    But lets say the eventuality that Siegel foresees comes to pass – Cali and NY threaten to default and wreck the credit rating of the whole country. The Democrats begin to hammer their populist class war themes, and oh lord, it starts to resonate.

    What say all? Do we stick to our guns? I’m inclined to say that we do; though I don’t say it confidently. I was always one of those who thought that if we had let the economy “find a bottom” when the crisis struck, the pain would have been deep and pervasive, but the recovery would have been swifter and more robust.

    We didn’t do that, and the price is that every subsequent opportunity to find a bottom is going to be much more painful due to the structural carnage government intervention wreaks.

    But I could be very wrong about what to do in this case.

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