{"id":21764,"date":"2014-11-05T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=21764"},"modified":"2014-11-05T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:58:58","slug":"midday-post-election-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=21764","title":{"rendered":"Midday Post-Election Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few quick post-election links:<\/p>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/battle-for-the-senate-how-the-gop-did-it\/2014\/11\/04\/a8df6f7a-62c7-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html\">a really solid <i>Washington Post<\/i> insider piece<\/a> on how Republicans won, and Democrats lost, the election. &#8220;From the outset of the campaign, Republicans had a simple plan: Don\u2019t make mistakes, and make it all about Obama, Obama, Obama.&#8221; That piece is also notable for David Krone, Reid\u2019s chief of staff, going on record at how Obama screwed them. &#8220;The disagreements underscored a long-held contention on Capitol Hill that Obama\u2019s political operation functioned purely for the president\u2019s benefit and not for his party\u2019s.&#8221; Read the whole thing.\n<li>The supposedly ascendant Obama coalition is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2014-11-05\/why-obama-s-coalition-of-the-ascendant-crashed\">intermittent and unstable<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;Tuesday&#8217;s voting was a wave alright\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/voters-verdict-explodes-democratic-myths\/article\/2555779\">a very anti-Democratic wave<\/a>.&#8221; Among the myths exploded: It wouldn&#8217;t be about Obama or ObamaCare, and women or their ground game would save Democrats.\n<li>Mickey Kaus notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/11\/05\/what-schumer-wrought\/\">almost all Democrats who supported illegal alien amnesty lost<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;28 senators who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2555721\">voted for Obamacare and won&#8217;t be part of new Senate<\/a>.&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;The actual truth is that Obama simply doesn&#8217;t do his job, because <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/352942.php\">he is lazy, and he refuses to do the non-glamorous, non-&#8220;fun&#8221; parts of his job<\/a> such as compromising, horsetrading, or working out the details, because he is a committed die-hard ideologue who also suffers from an intense Messianic complex in which he can only be the conquering hero.&#8221;\n<li>Nate Silver: The polls were indeed biased: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-polls-were-skewed-toward-democrats\/\">in favor of Democrats<\/a>.\n<li>Who do you think liberals will hate more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2014\/11\/05\/Mia-Love-Celebrates-Big-Victory-in-Utah-I-Wasn-t-Elected-Because-Of-The-Color-Of-My-Skin\">Mia Love<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2014\/11\/first-openly-gay-republican-wins-seat-in-congress\/\">Carl DiMaio<\/a>?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnewsroom.com\/2014\/11\/05\/sandra-fluke-headed-for-defeat-in-ca-state-senate-race\/\">Sandra Fluke lost as well.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few quick post-election links: Here&#8217;s a really solid Washington Post insider piece on how Republicans won, and Democrats lost, the election. &#8220;From the outset of the campaign, Republicans had a simple plan: Don\u2019t make mistakes, and make it all about Obama, Obama, Obama.&#8221; That piece is also notable for David Krone, Reid\u2019s chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,17,13,24,18],"tags":[1717,870,354,2527,2864,2862,1751,317,2866,2528],"class_list":["post-21764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-control","category-democrats","category-elections","category-obamacare","category-republicans","tag-2014-election","tag-amnesty","tag-border-controls","tag-carl-dimaio","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-mia-love","tag-mickey-kaus","tag-obamacare","tag-sandra-fluke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21771,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions\/21771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}