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    ABC News projects that Republican candidates claim Senate seats in Kentucky and South Carolina.
    Mitch McConnell Projected to Win Kentucky Senate


    05:43 | 11/05/2014


    Louisiana US Senate (8% expected vote reporting)
    Cassidy (R) 49,855 ~44%
    Sen. Landrieu (D) 47,192 ~ 42%
    Maness (R) 12,605 ~ 11%

    U.S. House District 6 (1% precincts reporting)
    Edwards (D) 9,334 ~ 34%
    Graves (R) 6,969 ~ 26%
    Claitor (R) 3,340 ~ 12%
    Dietzel (R) 3,297 ~ 12%

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    Claims of dysfunctional voting machines muddy elections

    An incumbent lawmaker up for re-election in Virginia said Tuesday that his constituents are complaining that polling machines at nearly two dozen locations across the state have been acting irregularly on Election Day.

    At a Tuesday morning press conference, Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Virginia) expressed concern after reportedly hearing from 25 people already that day that voters experienced issues when trying to cast ballots for the incumbent in the state’s Second Congressional District — a region that includes the cities of Virginia Beach, Accomack and others.

    “We have received numerous, credible reports of poll machine irregularity at voting precincts in Virginia’s Second Congressional District. This is very troubling. It is critical that every voter verifies the final summary page before pushing the ‘cast ballot’ option,” the congressman’s office said in a statement.



    “We know it's going to grow through the day,” the Huffington Post quoted Rep. Rigell as saying during an impromptu Election Day press conference Tuesday morning. “That is not an anomaly, that's a pattern, in each and every case it's going against us and in favor of our challenger."

    According to Rigell, constituents complained that they were having difficulties voting for the incumbent, and that polling machines across the Second District were accidentally casting ballots for the challenger, Democrat Suzanne Patrick. Rigell’s office has since released video evidence allegedly showing the anomaly as it occurred when a Virginian attempted to cast a vote early Tuesday at a polling place in Virginia Beach.

    Additionally, the Republican Party of Virginia wrote a letter to the state’s Department of Elections early Tuesday as reports of faulty machines piled up. “Voters have difficulty selecting the candidate of their choice using the touch screen because the screen's touch sensor is not properly aligned with the text that appears on the screen,” the letter reads.

    According to the Virginian-Pilot, however, complaints could very well be overblown. Donna Patterson, the voter registrar for Virginia Beach, downplayed the reported irregularities to the newspaper and said, “To be honest with you, we've had more calls from Rigell's office than from voters.”

    Meanwhile, the Suzanne Patrick campaign released a statement of its own to the media saying reports of improperly working machines have been rarely seen on their end.


    “Virginia has elections every year and we trust that the Department of Elections is doing everything it can to ensure accuracy during the voting process,” said campaign manager Michelle Gajewski. “We will, of course, work with election officials to ensure this accuracy. Our campaign has gotten a very low and limited number of reports about difficulties casting ballots today. In all cases, the problem was resolved quickly and the voter walked away satisfied that each had cast his or her ballot successfully.”

    Previously, however, concerns have been raised elsewhere in the United States over reports that electronic voting machines similar to the ones being used in Virginia are capable of being compromised.

    “It’s a classic attack on security devices,” Roger Johnston of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory told Popular Science for a report in 2012 about an exploit that effected certain machines.“You implant a microprocessor or some other electronic device into the voting machine, and that lets you control the voting and turn cheating on and off. We’re basically interfering with transmitting the voter’s intent.”


    http://rt.com/usa/202287-rigell-virg...ction-problem/

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    Louisiana Senate race going to December runoff
    By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
    updated 7:20 AM EST, Wed November 5, 2014


    Washington (CNN) -- Louisiana won't know which candidate will represent the state in the next Congress until December.

    Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy will face off in a December runoff, CNN projects.

    The two candidates also faced off against another Republican, tea party-backed Col. Rob Maness (ret.) in Louisiana's "jungle primary" system.

    The system gave candidates from both parties a chance to slug it out together instead of settling on a nominee in the summer like most states. But one candidate has to hit 50% of the vote to avoid a December runoff.

    The polls have favored a runoff for weeks now, with the No. 3 candidate Maness pulling enough votes from the right to keep Cassidy neck-and-neck with Landrieu and below the 50% threshold.

    Landrieu's rough fight for re-election came amid sagging approval for President Barack Obama in the state, where only 40% of Louisiana voters approved of Obama according to a CNN/ORC poll.

    The three-term incumbent even tied Obama's unpopularity in the state to racism in the South last week.

    "I'll be very, very honest with you. The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans," Landrieu told NBC News' Chuck Todd, while also citing Obama's moratorium on off-shore drilling and energy issues as the "number one" issue for why Louisianans do not like the president. "It's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader."

    And while Cassidy hammered Landrieu over those comments, he faced heat over racially-tinged remarks in September when he said Harry Reid "runs the Senate like a plantation."

    Like many other Democrats with tough reelection challenges, Landrieu has kept Obama at arm's length and has sought to deflect Republican attacks tying her to the President.

    Landrieu has also faced attacks from her Republican opponents over her reputation as one of the Senate's most frequent flyers -- billing the federal government more than $47,000 in flights in 2013 alone.

    And in September, Landrieu's campaign reimbursed the federal government more than $33,000 in flights that should have been billed to her Senate office.

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    ABC News projects that Republican candidates claim Senate seats in Kentucky and South Carolina.
    Mitch McConnell Projected to Win Kentucky Senate


    05:43 | 11/05/2014
    Why Mitch McConnell always wins

    As soon as the polls closed across Kentucky at 7 pm eastern time, the Associated Press -- and every one else -- called the race for Mitch McConnell. For McConnell, it was his sixth straight victory and came 30 years after he first beat then Sen. Walter "Dee" Huddleston (D) to win the seat. It came after an extended campaign in which Democrats spent months (and months) insisting that McConnell's time had finally come and that Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes was the candidate to knock him off.

    But, Democrats swung and missed. Again. Given his 6-0 record over the past three decades, it's worth examining what McConnell does right.

    1. He knows what he's bad at. Most politicians are aware of their strengths. Far fewer are able to honestly assess their weaknesses. McConnell is one of the best at the latter. (Know who else is? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.) He knows he's not very charismatic or telegenic. So, he doesn't try to be. He doesn't try to charm voters -- aside from occasionally appearing with puppies in ads -- and makes no apologies for his seriousness. McConnell tries not to make himself the issue in races because he knows he's a mostly behind-the-scenes guy whose strength is in strategy not speeches.

    2. He has a very good political team -- and has for a long time. Media consultant Larry McCarthy and pollster Jan van Lohuizen have been with McConnell forever. Josh Holmes, who managed the final weeks of the campaign, is a longtime McConnell guy. They know McConnell ,and he knows and trusts them. It's hard to overestimate how important that is in the context of a campaign. McConnell and his team know what he can and should do and, per point #1 above -- what he shouldn't.

    3. He's always prepared. McConnell doesn't get taken by surprise. He raises a ton of money -- $27 million and counting for this race -- and never lets his political operation rust. He understands unlike some of his colleagues -- Pat Roberts, we are looking at you -- that simply having spent a long time in the Senate is not a guarantee that people will continue to vote for you.

    4. He attacks. And doesn't apologize. No one this side of Harry Reid is more effective at finding the one (or two or three) things about an opponent that voters don't like and then hammering away at that thing over and over and over again. For this race it was Grimes' connection to President Obama -- because, well, they are both Democrats. McConnell stayed on that message like a dog on a bone. And it worked.

    5. He represents Kentucky. As McConnell has continued to win over the last few decades, Kentucky has grown more and more conservative. McConnell benefits from the fact that President Obama won just 38 percent in the state in 2012 and that late polling in this race showed Obama in the low 30s in approval rating. Picking fights on favorable territory is the mark of any smart pol.


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    Looks like last night’s electoral shellacking of Democrats did not snap the folks at MSNBC out of their racial Twilight Zone.




    Liberal MSNBC contributor and Democratic “strategist” Jimmy Williams said that the only reason Senators such as Mary Landrieu and Kay Hagas didn’t romp to victory was because Barack Obama is Black.

    And he also said that Democrats will rule again when all the “old White people” in the South “die”.


    “Mitt Romney only won South Carolina with 53 [percent], John McCain with 52,” he said. “That’s a changing South. Those old White people? They’re going to die someday. And who’s going to be there to replace them? People that want you to be for them, not against them.”
    It is a special kind of crazy that infects the humanoids of MSNBC, as its dwindling handfull of viewers know so well.



    Hilariously, host and failed Democratic Congressional candidate Krystal Ball lauded Williams, saying that the Democrats would be “fortunate”: if he could be their brain trust. Republicans should be so lucky.

    And the show’s so-called “conservative” Abby Huntsman, daughter of fake Republican Jon Huntsman, also praised Williams’ “rant” and said the show was lucky to have him, and that he should he run for office someday.

    Williams echoed Landrieu’s thesis that Obama is unpopular in “the South” because he is Black, as TRN reported last week.

    However the reality is that Obama’s approval rating is badly underwater across the country and that the vast majority of Americans think the nation is heading in the wrong direction.

    http://toprightnews.com/?p=7097
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    Senator Tim Scott Declared the Winner;
    Becomes First Elected Black Senator from the South Since Reconstruction


    November 4, 2014 By Jennifer Burke


    South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has been called the winner in this special election to retain the Senate seat to which he was appointed in January 2013 after then Senator Jim DeMint resigned to head the Heritage Foundation. The election was called early with Scott crushing his opponent, Democrat Joyce Dickerson, 52% to 46%, according to Fox News.




    When Scott was appointed, he became the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction. His defeat over Democrat opponent Randall Young helps Republicans in their quest to gain control over the Senate.

    During a speech at Howard University, an historically black college, Scott talked about the challenge of being a black Republican. He said, “Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you. I hope that people will judge me on my agenda, what I say, and how I vote.” It appears that the people of South Carolina have spoken and are supportive of the votes that Scott has made with his re-election.

    With this election, since he was previously appointed to the seat, Scott, according to the Weekly Standard, becomes the first black candidate elected to the U.S. Senate in the old Confederacy.

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    Utah Republican Gives EPIC Response to CNN Anchors Who Try and Make Her Victory All About Race

    By Gina Cassini on November 5, 2014



    Less than 24 hours after Utah made history by electing the first Black female Republican to Congress, race-baiting talking heads at CNN wasted no time trying to frame her victory in terms of race.

    Mia Love (R-UT-Saratoga Springs) ran a fantastic campaign, highlighting conservative principles, and her constituents rewarded her for those principle.,

    But to CNN’s John Berman and co-host Michaela Pereira, it was all about one thing: race.

    Love was having none of it.

    As blogger Jason Howerton described it: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...ction-victory/

    CNN host John Berman asked Love a seemingly back-handed question aimed at Republicans regarding why it took so long for the party to elect a black woman. Love was clear that her campaign and victory had “nothing to do with race.”

    “This has nothing do with race,” said Love. “Understand that Utahans have made a statement that they’re not interested in dividing Americans based on race or gender, that they want to make sure that they are electing people who are honest and who have integrity,” Love said. “That’s really what made history here. It’s that Race, gender, had nothing to do with it, principles had everything to do with it.”

    Berman’s co-host, Michaela Pereira, then challenged Love on her point, saying people shouldn’t be divided on the basis of race, but everyone should have a “fair shot at getting a seat at the table.”

    Love explained that “there are very few black residents” in Saratoga Springs and reiterated that she “wasn’t elected because of the color of my skin, I wasn’t elected because of my gender.”

    “I was elected because of the solutions that I put at the table because I promised I would run a positive issues-oriented campaign and that’s what resonated,” she added.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaxO...layer_embedded



    Well done, Congresswoman-Elect!

    Isn’t it interesting how liberals always seem intent prove Martin Luther King Jr. wrong — that it is really all about the color of one’s skin that matters, and not the content of one’s character?

    Hopefully many more Black Americans will see through the fraud of race-baiting liberals, and judge each party by its results, not by how well they sow division based upon race.

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    NBC's Lauer Lectures GOP: Opposing Obama 'Is Not A Policy'
    By Kyle Drennen | November 5, 2014


    Following the big Republican wave in Tuesday's midterm election, on Wednesday, Today co-host Matt Lauer immediately demanded that the new GOP-controlled Congress capitulate to President Obama: "Republicans have control of the House and Senate for the first time in eight years....In January, voters are gonna say, 'What are you going to do with the power?' Opposing the President's policy is not a policy. Specifically, what can Republicans do with this power?"

    Lauer directed that question to New Jersey Governor and Republican Governor's Association head Chris Christie. In part, Christie replied: "People want to get things done. That's why Republican governors were elected last night – re-elected and new ones elected, Matt – because governors get things done. That's what the country wants."

    Continuing to push for Republicans to give in, Lauer followed up: "Tell me specifically one area where you would like this new Republican majority to compromise, real compromise, with President Obama."

    Christie pointed out that it was incumbent on Obama to compromise: "I think the two things they [Republicans] need to do is tax reform and a national energy policy. And the President needs to sit down and get that done with Republicans in Congress."

    ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning also interviewed Christie, but those exchanges focused entirely on big Republican gains and Christie's possible 2016 presidential run.

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    The Big Red Flood: Take A Look At These Four Maps To See Just How the Country Changed Yesterday

    By Michael Hausam

    The New York Times published these excellent visual representations of yesterday’s election results, including analyses based upon before and after polling. And they are pretty stunning.

    Results on the 35 Senate races:



    The Democrats won each seat they were expected to win, as did Republicans, including Louisiana, which will have a run-off on December 6th, as both candidates were under 50%. Of the 7 toss-up races, Republicans won 6, their only loss being in New Hampshire. Fifteen states held no Senate election. Net change of +7 for the Republicans.

    Results on the House races:



    The results of these races were better than expected for Republicans, as they picked up a CA seat that was supposed to be an easy Democrat win and three that the Democrats were considered to narrowly win. On the toss-up races, Republicans took 17 while the Democrats took only 7. Other than in Louisiana, where 2 races will be decided in a run-off next month, Republicans gained every other seat they were expected to. Net change of +14 for Republicans.

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    Voters in This State Overwhelmingly Pass Amendment to Ban Sharia Law, Other ‘Foreign Laws’ — Here Are the Details
    Nov. 5, 2014 9:45pm Jason Howerton

    By an overwhelming 72-28 margin, voters in Alabama voted on Tuesday to ban Sharia law and other “foreign laws” in the state’s courts. The state constitutional amendment was criticized as an attack on Muslims by some Islamic groups.

    In a press release, Alabama Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey provides a summary of the amendment: http://ltgov.alabama.gov/PR/PressRel...x?id=9136&t=28

    Called “The American and Alabama Laws for Alabama Courts Amendment,” Amendment 1 relates to the application of foreign law during the legal process involving an Alabama citizen. Foreign law refers to the laws of other countries or cultures. Currently, judges or other legal authorities discern whether foreign law is applied. Amendment 1 would create constitutional protection that foreign law is not applied if it violates the guaranteed rights of Alabama citizens
    The amendment was reportedly written by Birmingham attorney Eric Johnston for Alabama Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa). He said he “put in about three years of work into it” and argued it was not meant to target Muslims. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201...reign_law.html

    “Your constitutional rights are not affected by it. We’ve got a religious freedom amendment in Alabama,” Johnston told AL.com. “All it says is pay attention to the religious freedom amendment. Women’s rights are compromised by Sharia rights if a lawyer in a custody case says, ‘Islam requires you to do this.’ It’s a help to judges. It doesn’t create any new laws.”

    Ashfaq Taufique, president of the Birmingham Islamic Society, previously claimed that the amendment “started as an anti-Sharia bill a few years ago.” http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2..._that_rea.html

    “It is aimed at Islam, that’s what its origination was from,” he added. “There is no evidence of Muslims ever asking for Sharia Law to be implemented in American courts. We practice within the law of our country. That’s just fear-mongering.”

    Johnston maintained that the amendment “deals with a whole lot more than Sharia law.” Still, he also said Sharia law “violates women’s rights” and “is a problem for women.”

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