US Midterm Elections: Obama #39;s Democrats lose Senate to Republicans
President Barack Obama has pledged to work with a newly elected Congress one day after Republicans gained control of both the House and Senate in midterm elections. Obama said his ...
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AUSTIN If the general election were a battle, for Democrats it was the Alamo. Everybody died.
The problem is not only that they lost, but also that their brassy yearlong pledge to turn Texas blue has suffered such a setback.
Wendy Davis did no better among women than Democrat Bill White in the governors race four years ago, and she did worse among Hispanics.
In the end, Davis trailed Republican victor Greg Abbott by 20 points. No Democrat has finished so far behind since 1998, a blowout in which popular incumbent George W. Bush swamped Garry Mauro.
The national headwind was a lot to run against in a red state, said Glenn Smith of the Progress Texas PAC, a Davis ally. Wendy was going to have to throw a perfect game to even get close, and she didnt throw a perfect game.
For Davis and the rest of the Democratic statewide slate, the obstacles proved too difficult to overcome.
Among them: President Barack Obamas unpopularity and the failure of the organizing group Battleground Texas to boost turnout. They also faced an aggressive Abbott campaign to keep white voters, make inroads among Hispanics and dissuade moderate women voters from backing Davis.
The presidents low approval ratings clearly didnt help. Republicans repeatedly targeted him in speeches and TV spots.
At Tuesdays GOP victory party in Austin, Davis name barely was mentioned from the stage. But Obamas was frequently.
At one point, amid the balloons and election-night reverie, Gov. Rick Perry reminded the crowd that Texas remains the nations biggest red state.
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Democrats are stunned, aghast, dismayed and so on by the GOP victory that roiled them Tuesday in the Great Shellacking of 2014.
Inevitably, there will be big changes. Consider, for instance, the Democratic congressional staffers who will be out of work in just two months and the ecstatic Republican aides-in-waiting who are now racing those rsums up to the Hill to fill those jobs.
The turnover may not be as huge as in 2010, after the midterm rout that President Obama described as a shellacking. Thats because the GOP expanded its huge House majority by only 10 seats this time not the 60 seats it picked up four years ago. (Hey, at some point theres just so many seats out there.)
So with new office staffs and some extra committee slots, lets say that might amount to somewhere around 125 jobs in the House for Republicans. The bigger gains will come in the Senate, which might see, in the end, eight GOP pickups.
If so, were looking at about 200 jobs on personal staffs. Depending on the new committee breakdowns, Republicans will need more than 100 new committee aides. And then there are the leadership offices, where the flip from minority to majority could provide GOP job-seekers with 40more slots to look at.
In all, based on a back-of-the-envelope look, perhaps around 500 jobs will be switching to Republican staffers.
And the terrain is particularly ominous for the Dems looking for work in the private sector.
They are really going to have to stand out, said Jim Manley, former spokesman for the outgoing Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, and now at QGA Public Affairs, cause the recent focus on K Street with hiring Republicans is only going to get more pronounced in the days and weeks to come.
And if the Republicans win the 2016 presidential race ...
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