Election Results 2010

Election Results 2010 is the headline of the day. Most media outlets are projecting that the Democrats will lose at least 50 elected officials from the House of Representatives.The Republicans also won several seats in the Senate, including two seats by candidates who were strongly supported by the Tea Party.

President Barack Obama will now have to work with a new electorate map seeing that Americans have taken to the polls this Tuesday to renew/change 435 people from the House of Representatives, 37 senators and 37 governors.

It is now official the Democrats have lost the House of Representatives:

All the pollsters had predicted it the change and they were right: the Republicans have taken about fifty seats from the Democrats, thus winning the majority in the House of Representatives (the GOP now have 237 seats), according CNN.

This surge of Republicans will certainly killed Obama’s agenda and a will create a legislative deadlock, just two years after his arrival to the White House.
The Conservative have announced that they not intent to celebrate but will instead get immediately to work to reduce the deficit by cutting federal spending next year to bring them back to 2008 levels.
They also plan to focus on small businesses, and job creation according to the rumored new speaker John Boehner.

The Republicans have gained several seats in the Senate:

Three Senate seats have slipped into the Republican camp thanks the victories of Dan Coats of Indiana, John Boozman, Arkansas, John Hoeven in North Dakota and Ron Johnson in Wisconsin.

In Kentucky, Republican Paul Rand, a favorite of the ultraconservative movement Tea Party, was also elected to the Senate. This state was already held by the Republican Party but Jim Bunning, the incumbent decided not to run. Rand Paul is the son of another Republican Representative Ron Paul of Texas, former candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.

The Tea Partier Marco Rubio is now celebrating his new job as a senator for the state of Florida.
In Arizona, Barack Obama’s “mavricky” opponent during the 2008 presidential race, Republican John McCain won and will be serving his fifth term as a senator.

However, controversial Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell has lost in the Delaware race against Democrat Christopher Coons. West Virginia also maintains an elected Democrat, with the victory of Joe Manchin, a very popular incumbent governor who campaigned against Barack Obama’s health reform.

Nikki Haley who was backed by Sarah Palin has won the South Carolina governor’s race.
A huge surprise came when it was announced that Ron Johnson has managed to beat Russ Feingold for Senate in Wisconsin.
On the West Coast, exit polls conducted by CNN show that the golden state will be all Democrat. For the post of governor Jerry Brown will be the man succeeding Arnold Schwarzenegger, with 53% of the votes, against 43% for his Republican opponent Meg Whitman.And Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has beat former HP CEO Carly Fiorina.

In Nevada it looks like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will beat Tea Party darling Sharron Angle by a small margin.

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