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GOP Leaders Shouldn’t Forget That They Won Because Obama Sucks, Not Because They’re Great
John Hawkins | Nov 08, 2014

For the American people, voting in the 2014 election was like choosing whether they’d rather get Democrat Ebola or the Republican flu. Just because they chose the flu doesn’t mean that Republicans should start assuming that people love them.

They don’t.

Hell, I’m a conservative and even I don’t love the Republican Party.

Our leadership teams in the House and Senate are comprised of inarticulate country club Republicans who are to politics what the Waffle House is to fine dining. Many of the Capitol Hill staffers and consultants are out-of-touch lickspittles who hold flyover country conservatives in contempt because they’ve errantly concluded that being in the proximity of members of Congress somehow raises their IQ 40 points. The National Republican Senatorial Committee? Everyone in that organization should be fired and run out of politics. Afterwards, the GOP should burn the building to the ground and salt the earth so nothing will ever grow there again.

That doesn’t mean everyone is doing a bad job. Most people thought Republicans would lose governorships, but we added them instead. Thank you, Republican Governors Association. Also, Reince Priebus and the RNC bent over backwards to improve the GOP’s election data, to increase turnout, and to build bridges to the base. That paid off big time. We also can’t forget conservative Republicans like Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy who have stood tall, fired conservatives up and gave the base a reason to vote when our “leaders” were letting us down. That’s not a small matter because if the whole Republican Party was made up of mediocrities like Lindsey Graham, Thad Cochran and Peter King, it wouldn’t have mattered whether we voted or not because the country would be going to hell on a shutter no matter what we did.

https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/11/08/gop-leaders-shouldnt-forget-that-they-won-because-obama-sucks-not-because-theyre-great-n1915796

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Did New Jersey Miss the Wave?
November 7, 2014 1 Comment
By James Pezzullo | The Save Jersey Blog

Election Night has come and passed and, by the grace of God, Harry Reid is now relegated to the office of Senate Minority Leader. However, one question seems to be on everyone’s mind: did New Jersey, home of perhaps the night’s biggest winner – Chris Christie – manage to completely miss the tidal wave of Republican victory that swept the nation?

The case for a “yes” is clear. The night’s ticket-topping race for the US Senate was won handily by Cory Booker. While it’s true that Jeff Bell outperformed his polls by 2 points, New Jersey polling in recent years has shown a Democratic bias – 3.2 points in 2013 and 4.5 points in 2008. While not 100% constant, a Republican outperforming the polls is to be expected in New Jersey.

There are several counterpoints down the ballot, however.

Tom MacArthur cruised to a 10-point win over Aimee Belgard. Scott Garrett swatted away what was supposed to be a strong challenge from Democrat Roy Cho by the same margin as 2012’s Adam Gussen (13 points), and in the 2nd district Frank LoBiondo laid a 25-point smackdown on challenger Bill Hughes. Cho and Hughes – both anointed by Democrats as the chosen ones who would finally unseat entrenched Congressmen – both came up with at or below average performances against the two veteran Republicans. Burlington and Monmouth’s GOPs came up with wins in their competitive Freeholder races, Ocean County Republicans took care of business across the board (as my good friend Bill Kuncken wrote about right here on Save Jersey) and, in general, it was a good night to be a Republican.

What gives?

https://savejersey.com/2014/11/did-new-jersey-miss-the-wave/