No acknowledgement of GOP Gains from the Daily Astorian

It’s been over a week and still no story and no editorial comment from Steve Forrester of The Daily Astorian about the Democrats losing control of the US Senate nor of the dramatic shift in Governor’s and State Assemblies this election cycle. Instead he’s let the New York Slimes left wing editorial writers do his bidding.  

Forrester did gave the customary victory lap to all the local and state Democrats that held their seats in Oregon the day after the election but didn’t have the moral courage or honesty to admit the rest of the nation sent the Democrats packing.

With the exception of California and Oregon, no surprise there, the nation took a stunningly historic right turn. Both of these states clearly didn’t get the nationwide memo. You have to wonder when the plastic utopian bubbles they live in will burst.

For the record, since the Astorian has been shell shocked into the complete silence and denial, here are the numbers from the national election.   

Republicans gained 7 U.S. Senate seats, giving them a 52-seat majority, 2 races are still outstanding, in Louisiana and Alaska. Republicans won 12 net seats in the US House to expand their majority beyond their post-World War II record of 246 seats set in the 1946 election.

Republicans picked up Democratic-held governorships in deep blue states such as Massachusetts, Maryland and Illinois, as well as in Arkansas. The wins swell the ranks of Republican governors to at least 31, near a high water mark in the modern era. The Democrats, by contrast only control all three legs of the governing stool in 6 states.

Republican gains extended to state legislative chambers as well. Before Election Day, the GOP controlled 59 of 98 partisan legislative chambers across the country. On Tuesday, the Republicans had won control of the Nevada Assembly and Senate, the Colorado and Maine Senates and state House chambers in Minnesota, New Mexico, West Virginia and New Hampshire.

That would give the Republican Party control of 67 chambers, five more than their previous record in the modern era, set after special elections in 2011 and 2012.

The complete repudiation of Obama, the Democrats and their agenda was kicked to the curb last week. If only believers of Forrester’s rants would do the same.