It happened last night, though some of our liberals seem to be latching on to Reid’s win as some sort of “victory”. It certainly is disappointing that this hopelessly corrupt and mindlessly Statist Democrat managed to win, but he’s actually a liability for the Democrats who have an even rougher task in 2012, even supposing the economy gets better and Obama gets re-elected. Right now, the Democrats have lost the House, lost the governorships, lost the State legislatures and have retained Harry Reid and a weak, unworkable majority in the Senate. A majority which merely ensures the Democrats remain responsible for everything which goes wrong, but which can’t advance an election-winning agenda.

Our task has now become more difficult – working to rescue America while also working to ensure Obama’s defeat in 2012. That is something we must not lose sight of. No matter what sort of triangulation Obama may try, we must eject him from the White House. He has proven himself not just incompetent, but divisive…America is weaker because he is President and putting him in for a second term is just too risky.

This will not be easy. Our economy is in shambles; our government is bankrupt. We have to balance the budget, cut taxes, restore productivity and do this all in a world becoming daily more dangerous. And we’ll have to do it while Democrats work for only one purpose – to return themselves to power so they can resume looting our nation for their personal benefit.

The war is not won – and, in fact, the biggest battle starts today. Get ready for it.

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Calling the Races:

They’re starting to call the races – Rand Paul wins in Kentucky. We’ll see how this goes. Hold on to your hats!

Marco Rubio wins!

Rumor Mill: Reid doing well. Could be – but I’m still counting on Sharron Angle. With 56% disapproval, I just can’t see my fellow Nevadans falling for it.

Ayotte (R) wins in New Hampshire.

DeMint re-elected.

Blumenthal holds Connecticut for Democrats. I guess in CT brazen lies are acceptable. And O’Donnell will come up short.

Exit polls supposedly say 50 seat House and 7 seat Senate GOP gain…I think that is the floor, not the ceiling.

Roy Blunt (R) wins in Missouri.

Drudge is reporting record turn out in Washington – Go Dino!

Toomey/Sestak too close to call.

Illinois (Barry’s old seat) too close to call.

In the House, it is shaping up to be a bad night for the Dems.

Alan Grayson goes down in Florida – that, in and of itself, makes this a great night for the United States of America.

I FEEL HAPPY!!!!!

Boozman wins in Arkansas Senate race.

Toomey wins in PA! (oops, not yet: but he’s surging late)

Synder (R) wins MI governorship; Perry crushes White in TX; Wisconsin too close to call.

Big turn out reported in Carson City – that is Angle Country.

Report on Twitter: NBC says GOP will win the House. We’ll wait before we pop the corks.

Rand Paul: Deliberate this – why do we have to balance our budgets but the government doesn’t?

Frank wins – stupid Massachusettsans!

Rubio: We make a grave mistake if we think this is an endorsement of the GOP…this race is about the future of this country.

Allen West leading in Florida.

GOP wins PA Governorship.

In MI, Congressman-for-life Dingell slightly behind…

Bye, bye Feingold in WI – and hello Governor Haley in SC!

Polling glitch in Clark County may delay Nevada results…

Brown wins in CA – California is DOOMED!!!

Stupid, STUPID, STUPID!!!! Californians. For goodness sake, the State is bankrupt and they just elected people who’s only plan is to bankrupt it some more. No bailouts for CA – not a dime of Federal money for them when the poop hits the fan.

Until a few minutes ago, at least, they were still lined up to vote in Elko – that is Double Plus Wow Angle Country…

NV-2 CD stays GOP; GOP doing well in some State legislative seats; NM Gov goes GOP – a wise Latina (ie, a Republican) wins.

CBS has Angle up 49/45 over Reid – don’t know what part of the State has reported yet. Reid needs a big day in Clark County to win.

Now Toomey wins – lets hope its an omen for what will happen in NV!

Speaker-elect Boehner: not a time for celebration; once we’ve fixed America, then we can celebrate.

Little Rory Reid loses his gubernatorial bid. Now, for Harry.

GOP wins Barry’s Senate seat in Illinois.

Harry Reid wins in Nevada – sorry, fellow Americans; he just barely made it.

As a word of explanation, we were voted the most stupid Sate in the nation, so cut us some slack…

So far, the GOP has picked up 7 State legislatures…its a wipe out of the Democrats with an annoyance in the Senate.

Caddell: This is the worst outcome imaginable for Democrats; official control of the Senate with Reid still lingering on while actual control goes to the GOP while the House is firmly in GOP hands.

Its here! Election day! Woohoo!

All that is about finally being rid of Harry Reid ads – boys and girls, you simply don’t know what sort of punishment Harry has been inflicting on us over the past 6 months!

Anyways…

There really isn’t much to write about until the exit polls start leaking about noon, Eastern. As usual, treat any early exit polls with caution – the MSM is still in bed with the Democrats and they may, once again, try to depress GOP turnout by leaking stories of an alleged fizzle for the GOP. None of us can really know what will happen – and there still is that chance that Democrats will do better than expected. The only thing to do is to vote (if you haven’t already) and then just see what happens – the decision is made, we’re just waiting for the results.

Whether it winds up just a good win for the GOP or surges to a wipe out for the Democrats really doesn’t matter too much – the main thing is that this election is a resounding rejection of Obama’s liberalism. It is not – NOT – an embrace of the GOP, at least not yet. We’re a party on probation. If we do the right thing, then we’ll be handed a generation of power come 2012. If we screw it up, then we’re done for (so are Democrats, though if the GOP melts down, they might eke out a win in 2012, but that will be the last of it). Revolution is in the air – the people want genuine, fundamental change back to our old, Constitutional Republic. We deliver that we’re going to be fine – and, more important, save our country.

I’ll be out and about a bit today (do have to do that voting thing, and have several engagements ’round town in to the afternoon). I’ll be here in the evening, starting before the polls close in the east – and then we’ll carry on…though if the House goes GOP early, I might head out to one of the GOP victory parties to join the Rally to Destroy Sobriety.

Go vote; pray for our country – and let’s just see what happens.

And

In case you needed another reason to vote Republican tomorrow – Ed Morrisey notes:

Americans slowed their spending in September to the weakest pace in three months and their incomes fell for the first time in 14 months.

Personal spending rose at an annual rate of 0.2 percent in September, the Commerce Department said Monday. That’s below the 0.5 percent gains recorded in July and August.

Incomes fell 0.1 percent in September, following a 0.4 percent rise in August that had been pushed higher by the return of extended unemployment benefits.

It must be kept in mind that we are rapidly sliding back in to recession – though, of course, a real case can be made that we never left it. While we are all on a high pending our victory tomorrow, the reality we face is rather grim.

We’ve got a President who hasn’t a clue of what to do, a Congress which may end up split between Republicans in the House and Democrats in the Senate and an economy about to take a dive. This is a recipe for disaster and it will take all our efforts – and all our prayers – to both keep things on an even keel, as well as set the stage for the completion of the political revolution in 2012.

We’ve really got our work cut out for us – enjoy tomorrow, but get ready to roll up the sleeves on November 3rd.

From Politico:

Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.

Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns…

In my view, the only person who can realistically stop the Palin Express – should she decide to run – is Chris Christie. The other GOP candidates are mostly a fine group, but none of them have the, well, the romance of a Palin candidacy. Our warrior queen, for whom we will do battle – while she has her high negatives among the general electorate, she is dearly beloved by those who back her, and in a crowded GOP field, she’ll consistently score 40% in the early primaries, more than enough to best everyone else…after a few of those, everyone else will fade away.

Christie can stop her because he’s rapidly becoming a grass roots hero for the way he’s taking on the unions and the Ruling Class in general. If he gets in, he soaks up almost all that Palin doesn’t already have in her corner and thus can make a race of it. The Establishment, of course, wants to stop Palin – she’s dangerous to them as she has been completely rejected by them. In other words, she owes them nothing and so, if elected, will completely destroy them. The fun part is that the only person who can stop her is another anti-Establishment candidate.

Be all that as it may, we can expect many efforts to stop Palin. The official word on it will be that she’s un-electable; the only candidate Obama can beat in 2012. The fact is that Obama can beat any of the GOP hopefuls – beating a sitting President is extraordinarily hard and if the economy improves or any of a host of possible events happen, Obama can be right back on top. No matter how well we do in 2010, we have to work on the assumption that Obama gets re-elected in 2012 – only by having such a framework can we hope to craft a strategy to beat him (and, in the end, if he does end up easy to beat, then we won’t have lost anything by being careful). But the Establishment will want to de-rail Palin not because she might lose to Obama, but because she might win.

Keep that in mind: the goal of the Establishment is to keep out of power those who would destroy the Establishment. All that you’ll hear about Palin over the next year will be colored with this – sift things you hear carefully, and always look for the ulterior motive. But also keep this in mind: its going to be enormously fun. Watching a Ruling Class collapsing upon itself will be endlessly entertaining.

Big Journalism has the audio of the CBS affiliate reporters conspiring to slander Joe Miller – its pretty brazen but entirely unsurprising. This is what the MSM does – they are chock full of liberals who simply despise conservatives, and if the facts don’t fit their narrative, they’ll just make them up. The few honorable liberals and conservatives who work in the MSM simply can’t counter-balance the rank, leftist bias of the MSM.

We can expect more of this and worse as the MSM gears up to try and save Obama’s Presidency. I know we’ve all heard recent carping from the MSM about Obama’s faiures, but make no mistake about it – when push comes to shove, most of the MSM will revert to slavish devotion to Obama’s cause…and they will just make stuff up about conservatives, if they can’t find anything real to slander with.

UPDATE: New poll shows Miller with 37%, Murkowski and McAdams with 30%, each. Looks like Miller will pull out the win, in the end.