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Ann Coulter dispels 'election myths'
that died with Democrats' defeats
Posted: November 03, 2010
5:32 pm Eastern
By Ann Coulter
After Tuesday's election, the fresh new faces of the Democratic Party
are ... Harry Reid and Jerry Brown! (Who had the worst election night?
Chuck Schumer, who's been waiting in the wings to replace Reid as Senate
majority leader. Who had the second-worst election night? The people who
live below Barney Frank's apartment.)
With the addition of new Republican senators Ron Johnson (Wisconsin),
Rand Paul (Kentucky) and Marco Rubio (Florida), among others, the
average IQ of Senate Republicans has just increased by about 20 points.
Also, liberals won't have Sharron Angle to kick around anymore. Now that
Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina are gone,
Keith Olbermann is indefinitely suspending his "Worst Persons of the
World" segment.
Republicans added two magnificent new black faces to the Congress with
Allen West in Florida, who beat sore loser Ron Klein 54.3 percent to
45.7 percent (with 97 percent counted, Klein wouldn't concede), and Tim
Scott in South Carolina, who crushed Democrat Ben Frasier, 65-29.
Republicans also launched two new Hispanic stars this election:
Sen.-elect Marco Rubio from Florida and the new governor of New Mexico,
Susanna Martinez. And we got a bonus Indian, Nikki Haley, the new
governor of South Carolina.
MSNBC is still searching for the "Republicans are racist" angle in all
of this.
The most important outcome of this week's election is that Republicans
clobbered the Democrats in the state gubernatorial and legislative
races. Next year, state lawmakers draw new congressional districts,
determining the congressional map for the next decade. In the past,
Democrats have had a 2-1 advantage in congressional redistricting. Not
anymore.
Tuesday night, Republicans won governorships in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Alabama, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas,
Georgia, South Carolina, pause, deep breath, New Mexico, Nevada,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Alaska, Maine,
Iowa and Florida. They also swept the state legislatures.
Meanwhile, the Democrats won governor's races in California, New York,
Massachusetts, Arkansas and Maryland.
Not only are all the Democrats' states losing population, which isn't as
important for redistricting, but the Democrats' biggest plum,
California, losing congressional seats for the first time since the
'50s, also approved a ballot measure that will take redistricting out of
the hands of the California legislators and turn it over to a Citizens
Redistricting Commission.
So the Democrats got nothing out of this election. Worst of all, now
they're stuck with Harry Reid.
Democrats' congressional redistricting dreams weren't the only thing
that died Tuesday night. A slew of election myths died, though I'm sure
they'll have to be killed off again in every future election:
All but the broadest election predictions are an enormous waste of
everyone's time.
We may as well listen to people on TV give us their guesses on how many
jellybeans are in the 10-gallon jar. The only prediction that came true
was my prediction that most predictions were worthless.
Last week, Charles Krauthammer predicted a pickup of 55 House seats and
eight Senate seats, which, weirdly, was the exact polling average given
by Real Clear Politics. For months now, Dick Morris has been assuring
Fox News viewers that Republicans were going to take both houses.
If only some of that precious airtime had been spent interviewing the
great Bill Brady, he would not now be locked in a tight election recount
for governor in Illinois, Obama's home state and the sixth-most populous
state in the nation.
A "wave" election would give the victory to Republicans in all close
Senate races.
We had a wave. We had an enormous wave, a tidal wave, a wave that
produced more than 60 seats in the House in the biggest party turnover
since 1948. But Democrats still won all Senate races that were tied in
the polls. The fact that the close races were all in solidly Democratic
states had more to do with the outcome than the "wave." Demographics
matter, not "waves."
Newt Gingrich engineered the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress.
All Newt did was avoid standing in front of a runaway freight train in
1994, when Republicans picked up a comparatively paltry 54 seats. We
would have done that if Pee-wee Herman had been the face of the
Republican Party. This year, with absolutely no Republican or tea-party
leader, Republicans picked up 60-plus House seats.
Republican landslides are apparently inevitable whenever Democrats try
to turn our health care over to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Tea-party candidates like Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell were bad
for the Republican Party.
Au contraire! Every Republican who won a tightly contested election
should be sending a thank-you note to Angle and O'Donnell for taking all
the fire from the mainstream media and keeping the heat off of them.
Republicans never had a chance to take the Senate, and anyone who knows
the difference between California and Tennessee knew that. Most of the
Senate seats up this year happened to be in very, very "blue" states.
Short of a Republican invasion of the body snatchers, Republicans
weren't going to be electing senators from California, New York and
Oregon.
Acting as if O'Donnell's primary victory dashed Republican dreams of
taking the Senate was always absurd, particularly coming from the people
who supported a World Wrestling Entertainment impresario in Connecticut
and did nothing to help a Republican who could have won that race.
The Republican landslide in the House will lead to a bitterly divided
Congress with unimaginable gridlock.
The fact that this year's crop of Senate elections was bad for the
Republicans means the Senate elections two years from now, and then
again four years from now, are going to be fantastic for Republicans.
Do you think Claire McCaskill, Jim Webb, Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester of
Montana, all of whom will be facing the voters in two years, noticed
that popular, long-serving Democrat Russ Feingold just lost an election
in a much more liberal state than their own?
Even Lindsey Graham is going to start voting with the Republicans!
Connecticut voters wouldn't mind a World Wrestling Entertainment
impresario.
Connecticut isn't Minnesota. Anyone with the slightest familiarity with
Connecticut knew WWE owner Linda McMahon never had a chance even against
Dick Blumenthal, a Democrat so repulsive even the New York Times
attacked him.
Republicans had the ideal Connecticut candidate in Rob Simmons, who lost
the primary to McMahon. He had won in liberal districts before, was a
graduate of Haverford College and Harvard University, was an Army
colonel who served in Vietnam and teaches at Yale. He also never kicked
a man in the groin for entertainment. But Simmons didn't have McMahon's
money, so Republicans went with McMahon.
If, instead of listening to pundits guess how many jellybeans are in the
jar, the conservative media had showcased Simmons, he would have won the
primary, and today conservatives and liberals would be united in joy
over the defeat of Dick Blumenthal.
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debate her anymore. They do, however assault her on college campuses.