ELECTION 2014 - Merged Threads

[KestrelBike]

Has anyone grumbled about the senate seat in Louisiana yet? http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elec...aces/louisiana

Landrieu somehow got 42% of the vote, Cassidy (R) getting 16,500 less votes for 41%. MEANWHILE Rob Maness *also* ran as a republican, and captured 202,000 votes for 14%. So it's going to be a runoff. Here's a quick question, why the F didn't maness drop out of the race when it was clear that he was 30 points down on the major republican candidate?

Further, thank libertarian Sarvis in Virginia for taking 53,000 votes, when Ed Gillespie (R) is losing to mark warner (D) by 12,500 votes. That could have been a Major upset. Way to send a message to washington by keeping a democrat in power. GG.

[Great-Kazoo]

Has anyone grumbled about the senate seat in Louisiana yet? http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elec...aces/louisiana

Landrieu somehow got 42% of the vote, Cassidy (R) getting 16,500 less votes for 41%. MEANWHILE Rob Maness *also* ran as a republican, and captured 202,000 votes for 14%. So it's going to be a runoff. Here's a quick question, why the F didn't maness drop out of the race when it was clear that he was 30 points down on the major republican candidate?

Further, thank libertarian Sarvis in Virginia for taking 53,000 votes, when Ed Gillespie (R) is losing to mark warner (D) by 12,500 votes. That could have been a Major upset. Way to send a message to washington by keeping a democrat in power. GG.

On the flip side this is important.
"Tonight you have made history!" Love told supporters after winning the state's fourth House district. "Many of the naysayers out there said that Utah would never elect a black Republican LDS (Latter-day Saint) woman to Congress. Not only did we do it, we were the first to do it!"
Love edged Democrat Doug Owens to win the open seat.

"I wasn't elected because of the color of my skin," Love told CNN Wednesday morning. "I wasn't elected because of my gender. I was elected because of the solution I put at the table."

this too
Tim Scott won in South Carolina, becoming the first African-American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate and elected to a statewide office.
Scott defeated another African-American, Democratic challenger Joyce Dickerson, and third-party candidate Jill Bossi. Scott,

Both of them being R's ,not to mention 3 other R woman who won .