As I sit here at about one AM (central time) most of the returns are in.   There are a few left,  so there may be a few changes.  Illinois  and  Colorado Governors,  Alaska and Colorado Senators are a few left.  

Overall it was a good election for Republicans.   The love affair with Obama is largely over for the majority of Americans.  The liberal tide has been stopped for now.  America's gamble with Obama and his minions has been a failure in spite of a pretty big Democrat majority in Congress for his first two years.    An advantage he has no longer.  At least in the House, though the Senate will remain by a small margin Democrat.  Hopefully the movement will continue in the direction of Republicans in 2012.   I was hoping the Senate would change hands tonight but it isn't going to happen until 2012.   Maybe that isn't so bad,  it will continue to be harder for Obama to blame Republicans.  But most of his agenda can be blocked now.  

The biggest story is the House where it is looking like Republicans have taken about 65 seats from the Democrats.  It is better then most pundits have been predicting so that is good news for Republicans.   No it wasn't 100 but it wasn't 30 either.  A good showing.  The House elections shows that the nation wants something different.   The Senate was always going to be long shot in 2010,  the fewer amount of open seats makes changing it harder.    It should be easier to pick it up in 2012 along with the White House.   

The second part of the story is the Governors races.   Republicans will take at least 10 governor seats back.   Michigan will be free of the nitwit that they have had for a governor finally.  Illinois is still up in the air,  but hopefully Brady has pulled it off and unseated Quinn.   Will see tomorrow.   

Even though the Senate wasn't won tonight,  it looks like about 8 seats are Republican again.   The most ironic one is the Senate seat in Illinois that Obama briefly held.  Indiana finally has two Republican Senators.   It  looks like Pennsylvania is going the right way. The biggest win is Rubio in Florida.   

The biggest disappointment for me today is Harry Reid.   I was really looking forward to send him packing.  I really thought Angle was going to win that one.  Hopefully the voter fraud didn't change the outcome.  

I weep for California.   What is so fundamentally wrong there?    Jerry Brown?  Are you kidding me?  Barbara Boxer another term??  These are the folks that got California in the mess its in.   When California hits bottom its going to really hurt.   That bottom hasn't happened yet and I don't know what will make it hit bottom finally.   The state is so broke,  people are fleeing,  business climate is about the worst there is,  but yet they reelect Boxer and return the moonbeam to the governors office after a couple of decades.    The rest of the country is going to pay big to fix California someday and the bill is going to be even BIGGER then it is now.   Brown will tax and spend like nothing is wrong.   This is probably the worst news of this election.   

Since I live in Indiana,  I will comment on it.

Overall state wide the elections were quite good.   The property tax cap (1% for first home, 2% on rentals and farms, 3% on business and other investment property) passed overwhelmingly and will become part of the Indiana Constitution.   It will prevent fast increases in property taxes in Indiana and require that towns go to the voters for tax increases for big projects.   It will help areas like Gary, if the state doesn't allow them to evade it (like they are trying to do).   It will insure that it will no longer have way higher taxes then the towns around it.   Wish Mayor Clay would believe that, but he has a different agenda.  

Republicans retook the Indiana House and increased its majority in the Indiana Senate to super-majority.    It should really help Governor Mitch Daniel's pro-business,  pro-growth agenda in his final two years in office.  Indiana has done much better in the great recession with Daniels in office then all of the rest of the midwest combined.   Indiana is looking better everyday.  

I wish I could say the same locally here in Northwest Indiana.   The people of Northwest Indiana have a lot of good qualities like hardworking  blue collar ethics etc.   But their bad habits in the voting booth continue to be a source of frustration for this writer.    They are too much like California in this regard.   In spite of  the Democrats totally screwing the area with its party machine,  the local voters go back for more. In spite of a scandal and being listed as one of the most corrupt in the country  Rep. Visclosky was re-elected to his 14th term in the House!  One bright spot though,  Republican Hanks Adams won the Lake County assessor's office.  He is the first Republican to win a countywide office in 60, yes 60 years!   So you see what is going on here for far too long.   

Now the story will be how the Republicans handle the House and how Obama reacts to the new reality.   Will the Republican finally learn and listen to the tea party conservative majority?   Will they go back to their old ways?  And more importantly what will Obama do?  Will he continue to ignore reality and still govern from the left or will he pull a Clinton and move more to the middle to save his own job?

The next two years will be very interesting, to say the least.   But I think the worst is now past. 


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