What does the national rejection of the president and his party look like? It looked like this on Tuesday.
GOP won sixteen seats in the House of Representatives, giving him the greatest majority he had since 1929. GOP won seven, though probably nine American fines to take control of this chamber from the Lord, do nothing (earlier) leader of most Harry Reid.
GOP has retained competitive residences of the governor in the States won by President Obama in 2012: Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa and Ohio. GOP has retained the residences of governors in the United States that Democrats have already claimed as victories: Maine, Georgia and Kansas. And GOP captured the residences of governors in solid democratic states: Illinois (Obama Family State), Massachusetts and Maryland.
Importantly, GOP won the Senate race and barely lost the governor’s race in Purple Colorado, the most critical state of Bellwether, which Obama carried twice.
The false narrative of the “war for women” of the Democrats was finally overthrown when some of her most celebrated supporters were defeated. Wendy Davis, a master of abortion, was concerned about the Governor of Texas, Senator Colorado Mark “Uterus” Udall was handy by Cory Gardner, and the Queen of contraception Sandra Fluke did not go to the headquarters in the Senate of California.
Showing what a real feminine political achievement looks like, GOP chose women throughout the country in historical races: Susana Martinez was re -elected the governor of New Mexico; Mia Love won the Congress Race in Utah and will be the first Black Republican woman in Congress; Veteran of the war in Iraq Joni Ernst won the headquarters of the Iowa Senate and is the first woman chosen for Congress from Iów; And in New York, 30-year-old Republican Elise Stefanik became the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Representatives.
Nice shows for a party allegedly dominated by sexists and racists. GOP chose the first black senator from South Carolina, Tim Scott.
Three obvious questions arise: how did it happen, what will happen next and what about 2016?
The first question is: an ideal storm consisting in much better republican effort and deep dissatisfaction with Democrats and their defects. The Republican establishment in DC developed and financed better candidates for the Senate (and defeated more risky candidates for the Tea Party), who attached themselves to the basics – economy, work, healthcare and foreign policy – and avoided dividing wedge problems. Politically employed GOP can win, especially when he supported democratic ineptitude.
Republican effort facilitated six years of democratic incompetence. Obamacare remains extremely unpopular, just like his namesake. In addition, the country is rightly quite an endless parade of scandals – speedy and furious, Bengazi, IRS addressed to conservatives, green energy fraud – and voted against the party that invited them.
In addition, one brilliant lesson is that in times of substantial challenges (Jobs, ISIS, immigration), the action of alleged solutions for non -existent people does not work. Political wedge problems dressed like domestic priorities, such as minimum wage, “equal wages” bills and climate change, are not winners. One of the best results on Tuesday is that the ecological mafia is $ 85 million poorer, because it spently spent on a tiny result: only two out of six candidates he supported survived the wave of GOP.
Finally, he always returns to the economy, and Americans rightly believe that the economy can do better.
Secondly, what will happen next?
If the modern majority of republican are clever, and Tuesday suggests that they can, at least for now, shorten all celebrations and reach the company. What is this business?
About Obamacare, open or transfer clear legislative exemptions to the most repulsive aspects of unpopular monstrosity: individual mandate; employer’s mandate; tax on the medical device; and a requirement for people to lose their current plans and doctors.
In the matter of immigration, GOP may offer a contract that he cannot miss: a real fence plus 25,000 more border agents and deportations for brutal criminals in exchange for a plan of guest workers and a path to legalize in two basic steps, UP or UP or Voices for both bills.
In the case of taxes, reduce the rate of legal tax, reduce the highest marginal tax rate, kill real estate tax for good and withdraw some of the corporate and individual tax persons, which distort the tax code and create perverse economic incentives. Then repatriation of corporate earnings at the sea to show corporations that America is satisfied with its activities and does not confiscate its success.
Finally, what are the implications of 2016?
First of all, as the head of the Republican Governors’ Association, New Jersey governor and the presumed aspirant of the White House in 2016, Chris Christie, will rightly report recognition for Tuesday’s governor’s successes. With a tiny fanfare, Christie traveled around the country, collecting money and momentum for overlooked governors. Those who won tight races may be guilty of him and will reverse his favor when Christie has been pressing the oval office from next year.
Secondly, the Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker won the greatest single victory for every Republican. For the third time he skilfully defeated the national democratic machine/work union. Considering this, and the political achievements that he may claim will be prepared to run in the White House in 2016.
Thirdly, as Rand Paula rightly noted, Hillary Clinton showed on Tuesday evening that she could not win for Democrats, even in Blue States. Democrats looking for recovery of tickets in 2016 will rightly be skeptical about her ability to win in the congress. In addition, taking into account the solid rejection of the failures of Obama’s administration, Hillary cannot indicate her time as a former secretary of state to strengthen her modest certificates. This leaves her with her record as a embittered first lady and an insignificant liberal senator. We saw how the latter turns out to be the president.
Finally, there are now more Republican governors than at any time in the latest memory, even in solid democratic states. Governors will have the opportunity to improve the Republican brand by demonstrating republican competences in the government and prepare a scene for the republican presidential victory in November 2016.
Let the 2016 campaign start.
