Category: Elections 2012

More on control of the State Senate

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As of now, George Amedore holds the lead in the SD-46 recount.  If it holds, Republicans will hold the State Senate 32-27-4. However, it appears likely there will be lawsuits:

Control of the State Senate

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It’s been almost two weeks since the election and control of the State Senate is still up in the air.  With Simcha Felder choosing to caucus with the GOP, it’s now tied at 31-31 with one race to close to call.  I suspect we won’t know who is running the show until the legislature returns for start of sessions in January at the earliest.

Learning experience

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Buzzfeed has an excellent article on why the GOP blew the election, “A New Republican Generation Gets Ready To Take Over.”  NRA should take note of it as well because their “All In” campaign sucked ass.

Turnout down 15%

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Voter turnout was down in New York by 15% from 2008.  Some of this can be attributed to Hurricane Sandy, but nationwide 14 million fewer people voted for president this time around so clearly it’s not just New York.

The AnarchAngel offers some analysis.  The bottom line is that people just did not bother to vote.

… If you chose not to decide you still have made a choice …

Bloomberg FAIL

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Despite the fact that the candidates largely ignored their issues, the antigunners are claiming victory with Obama’s re-election.

Mayor Bloomberg is not one of them.  His efforts at throwing money around didn’t work out so well:

“Late in this year’s election cycle, Mayor Michael Bloomberg suddenly announced the creation of a “super PAC,” Independence USA, through which the billionaire mayor could funnel unlimited sums of cash to candidates who support his political agenda of gun control, gay marriage and education reform. Looking at the federal races Mr. Bloomberg aimed to influence through the new political action committee, however, a majority of his candidates narrowly lost last night …”

See, it’s not all bad.

Election aftermath

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Obama won re-election.  I find this astounding.  He was dead silent on his signature “achievements”: Obamacare and the porkulus bill.  The economy tanked, unemployment increased  and the debt went through the roof.  He did basically did nothing for the last two years after the Republicans took control of the House.  In spite of this, he won.

Congresswomen Nan Hayworth, Ann Marie Buerkle and Kathy Hochul all lost.  Buerkle’s loss is particularly bad given the money Mayor Bloomberg put into her opponent.

Control of the State Senate is in question.  The Republicans managed to fuck themselves by losing a couple of seats once held by incumbents who voted for the gay marriage bill.  This is real bad as the microstamping will likely go to the floor for a vote.

At the national level, I cannot see any gun control bill going anywhere.  There just aren’t the votes to move it.  The main concern, other than a return of stagflation, will be possible SCOTUS retirements.

Bloomberg dumps money in CD-24

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Politico reports that Mayor Bloomberg has spent $400,000 in CD-24 in an effort to unseat Congresswoman Anne Marie Buerkle.  Buerkle has been very outspoken in her criticism of Eric Holder over the Fast & Furious scandal.

Bloomberg dumping money in California

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Mayor Bloomberg is really spreading it around:

“… On Tuesday, Bloomberg’s Independence USA committee spent $2,350,000 on a media buy to benefit Gloria Negrete McLeod, a Democratic State Senator in California who is trying to unseat the Democratic incumbent congressman, Joe Baca, whose positions on gun control the mayor has criticized …”

NRA rates Baca as B+ and McLeod as D.

Bloomberg dumping money in Florida

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Da Mayor is spending $1.1 million attacking Florida Congressman Daniel Webster and supporting his challenger Val Demings.

Here is a video from last year when Bloomberg’s FixGunChecks billboard truck visited Orlando that features Demings.