2006 Election post-mortem
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Concession Stands
Wall Street Opinion Journal Peggy Noonan November 10, 2006
Politicians are at their best when acknowledging defeat.
In a way they never tell the truth until the concession speech. That’s when nothing they say can hurt them anymore. They’re worn to the bone and they’ve been in a struggle and it’s over, and suddenly some basic, rock-solid, dumb knowledge of what they’ve been involved in–a great nation’s life–comes loose and declares itself.
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The Road Not Taken: Forfeiting a Majority
Ed. Very good analysis from the Conservative side.
Townhall.com Hugh Hewitt November 9, 2006
The post-mortems are accumulating, but I think the obvious has to be stated: John McCain and his colleagues in the Gang of 14 cost the GOP its Senate majority while the conduct of a handful of corrupt House members gave that body’s leadership the Democrats.
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A Pounding at the Polls
Breakpoint Charles Colson November 9, 2006
Why Conservatives Lost
Election Day is over, the votes have been counted, and it’s clear that conservatives took a beating. I have always maintained that Christian leaders should not make partisan endorsements—and I never have. But I am unashamed to say that I am a conservative.
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Post-election Washington
Jewish World Review Tony Blankley November 9, 2006
And so the inter-party struggle pauses, if briefly, and the intra-party struggles begin. After such a profound shift of political power as resulted from this week’s election, both the winning and losing parties will inevitably enter a prolonged period (months, perhaps years) where each party’s factions — both ideological and other — and their interest groups, will struggle to gain advantage and dominance within their party.
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Pundits Proliferating – A Different Tack from Senator Coburn
Free Congress Foundation Marion Edwyn Harrison, Esq. November 9, 2006
Senator Thomas Allen Coburn, or Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., as he usually styles himself, unquestionably is among the most independent and courageous of United States Senators. He also has had a varied career - a college degree in accounting, management and expansion of an (originally family) optical business, medical school and the practice of medicine, three self-limited terms in the House of Representatives, now a Senator.
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The Bridge Back From the Wilderness
Real Clear Politics George Will November 09, 2006
WASHINGTON — At least Republicans now know where “the bridge to nowhere” leads: to the political wilderness. But there are three reasons for conservatives to temper their despondency.
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Speaker Pelosi
Wall Street Opinion Journal November 9, 2006
The election was a referendum on GOP failure.
Tuesday’s Democratic election victory was by any measure decisive, yet in the perspective of history also unsurprising. In the sixth year of a two-term Presidency, Americans rebuked Republicans on Capitol Hill who had forgotten their principles and a President who hasn’t won the Iraq war he started. While a thumping defeat for the GOP, the vote was about competence, not ideological change.
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Best of the Web (Wall Street Opinion Journal) James Taranto November 8, 2006
This column is scrupulously nonpartisan, but we will bend the rules for a moment and acknowledge that last night’s outcome was not what we were hoping for. As of now, the Democrats have picked up 28 House seats, giving them at least 228 (a majority is 218). Eleven more seats are undecided, so the Dem gain could be as high as 39. The Democrats also will take a 51-49 majority in the Senate, having won every close race except in Tennessee–though it may be awhile before that’s official, depending on whether Virginia’s George Allen decides to take his razor-thin loss gracefully like Richard Nixon or brutishly like Al Gore.
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Renewing the Contract
Ed. I’ll be posting what I think are good post-mortems of the election.
American Spectator Philip Klein November 8, 2006
Those conservatives who are waking up dispirited about the Democratic Party’s takeover of the House and its gains in the Senate would be wise to think back to a Wednesday two years ago.
On the morning of November 3, 2004, conservatives were euphoric as President Bush was re-elected comfortably and the GOP gained seats in the House and Senate — knocking off Tom Daschle in the process. Republicans began to talk in terms of being a permanent majority. The Democrats, meanwhile, were demoralized — seemingly destined for political irrelevance.
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