Some fairly amazing things happened in the Senate and House races last night

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Originally Posted by Lombardi's_kid_brother

1. Linda McMahon goes down in CT. This was no shocker, but I had not paid that much attention to Chris Murphy. Should I be this happy that a Democrat talked about health care as a right and ending foreign wars in a victory speech? I mean, he sounded like a Democrat. That made me happy.

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My good buddy was one of the head guys on this campaign, glad to see all the hard work pay off.

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Originally Posted by Kilmer17

And for one of the ones that did compromise, it DID carry a death sentence. That's my overall point.

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Brown didn't get a death sentence from the voters because he compromised. If anything, that is the only reason the race was as close as it was in that deepest of deep blue states.

I think you are creating an artificial construct here.

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Originally Posted by Kilmer17

And other extremists won. So again, are we more likely to get a functioning govt with Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren?

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Did Allen West lose or no? Seems that he won't accept it.

Joe Walsh fell. Too bad Bachmann didn't.

Can you go more Tea Party in '14? Will that work?

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Originally Posted by Kilmer17

Losing the most moderate GOPer makes it less likely those mentioned above will have anyone to deal with. That's my point.

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Good point, though the GOP moderates seem to be fading in to history amazingly fast.

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Originally Posted by youngestson

Good point, though the GOP moderates seem to be fading in to history amazingly fast.

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That's really true of both sides but admittedly faster with the Republicans.

A record number of Iraq & Afghanistan veterans were elected to Congress: http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news...ington-dc?lite

I wonder if we will have an Iraq/Aghanistan veteran President. We have just about made it through the baby boomer generation without electing a Vietnam vet.

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Originally Posted by DjTj

We have just about made it through the baby boomer generation without electing a Vietnam vet.

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I wonder how much of that was based on the fact that after WWII very few children from 'elite' or other families of means had their children serve in the military.