[WideRight05]

Again, I wouldn't crow too loud in this mostly red state, republican win. I'll say it again, get back with me in the 2016 election, when republicans are vulnerable.

I'll add, TRV, I'm certainly not going to make any major predictions about the 2016 election. There are plenty of people that voted for Obama two times, so anything can happen. Considering every major media outlet except for Fox leans to the left, I'm sure they will find something to spin to try to make the Republican party look bad. You can rest assured that the spin machine will be doing anything and everything it can to ensure that Hillary occupies the White House in 2016.

For what it's worth, I did not believe the Republicans would come close to accomplishing a lot this election. You can even see in my prediction post on the elections that I picked Grimes to pull an upset over McConnell as well as Republicans losing in several key battles. At the end of the day, I felt that there would be 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats, and 2 Independents in the United States Senate. Never did I even come close to expecting that states like Illinois and Massachusetts would lean red in the governor races. In fact, I thought that the elections would be like the 1986 elections that you speak so proudly of. The Democrats gained 8 seats in the senate, yes, but what you fail to mention is that Republicans gained 8 governors in 1986 - a nice gain. This year was complete domination no matter how you spin it, TRV. The Democrats lost seats in the house, senate, and multiple governors lost election. States like West Virginia are experiencing their first Republican controlled state house and senate in over half a century.

Now, here is another victory that is not being discussed a lot. You often like to touch on issues of race and gender, so let's look at a few things...

*Shelley Moore Capito was elected to West Virginia, the state's first female senator.
*WV also elected Saira Blair to the House of Delegates, a young Republican female.
*Mia Love, an African-American Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives.
*Joni Ernst, a female Iraq veteran, was elected to the senate.
*Elise Stefanik of New York became the youngest female elected to congress.
*Tim Scott of South Carolina won re-election overwhelmingly.
*Will Hurd of Texas was elected to office.

Liberals love having a diverse group as long as that group is liberal.

Get ready TRV, I can't guarantee the media won't find some way to pull Hillary through the next election, but the diversity of this election just made her road a whole lot harder. She will have to use something other than the "war on women" if she wants to be in the White House in 2016. nicker: