Thursday Night Massacre

Well, the Democrats certainly got beat bad on Election Night. Lost the Senate. Lost seats in the House. In other words, good bye productivity in Obama's last two years. This will be the weakest lame duck period in history. Implications:
1. Gridlock:
We are facing ISIS in the Middle East and an ebola outbreak in Africa. Gridlock will hinder American efficiency on these issues. We have already stalled(kinda) with respect to ISIS and they are gaining more ground. The GOP needs to be on  the same page as Obama if we want to stop this.
2. Immigration
Well, say bye to the long awaited immigration reform. With a house dominated by the GOP who cant even agree between themselves on what to do with immigration, we probably wont see much getting done.
3. Mitch McConnell: Say hi to our new majority leader in the senate everyone!! He once proclaimed that his PRIMARY GOAL WAS TO MAKE OBAMA A ONE TERM PRESIDENT. Well ladies and gentlemen, this man is quite simply a failure. Not only did he fail in that goal, but he failed in his job capacity to serve the people and focused his efforts on Obama. I'm just hoping he does not try to impeach him.....

Senate and Gubernatorial Races

It seems to be clear that the GOP will maintain control of the house, but what about the other races we have today.
In my home state, career politician Charlie Christ is battling Rick Scott. Neither candidate has much appeal at all, so its essentially picking the lesser of two evils. Scott has been accused of defrauding the government, among other things, while Christ has been in 3 parties in the last 5 years. Overall though, the fangate incident hurt Scott and I predict Christ to pull out a narrow victory. Interestingly enough, polls show that the ever-relevant Libertarian party candidate is actually pulling votes away from Christ, the Democrat, not Scott.

The Senate is the most important thing that will be decided tonight. The odds are in favor of the Republicans, which means Obama may cry a little tonight. Having a non-compliant House was hard enough, but a non compliant Senate would cripple Obama even further. Close races include the one in Colorado, with Mark Udall and Alaska with Mark Bedich. Unfortunately, my state has no senate races going on today, meaning I do not know as much about these politicians as I do about Floridians. I am certainly rooting for a Democrat Senate after tonight, but that just doesnt seem likely at all.

MAX