so how did your local races go?

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Did your pro-gun incubents(if you have them) get reelected? Did your anti-gun incubents(if you have them) get defeated?

My pro-gun republican state rep and state senator incubents narrowly beat their Democrat anti-gun challengers. Senator Scott Brown and rep Susan will serve for at least 2 years. The jerk Angus Mcquilken who helped write the 1998 gun control package lost again :neener:
 
not good

My area "7th district in In is swallowed up in one of the blue counties. One of the UN letter signers Julia Carson amidst failing health and hospital stays was re-elected.
 
Things haven't turned out well for the state of Colorado, but did turn out well for my county: the good guys and gals won handily.

The local school district I'm in spent lots of money on a measure to increase taxes "for the sake of the children," et cetera. I always vote against tax increases, since it's obvious government at all levels already has far too much money at its disposal.

The measure was defeated. In just about seconds flat, the indignant tax increase faction started yelling and screeching and whining about dividing the district into two districts: one to correspond with the area that voted in favor of increased taxes, the other to correspond with the area that voted against increased taxes. It's "for the sake of the children," of course.
 
6 more years of McCain

The residents of Arizona re-elected Cindy McCain...opps I mean U.S. Senator John McCain to attack the 2nd Amendment for another 6 years. McCain made a comment to the press that he isn't interested in running for the top spot in 2008. YEA RIGHT! Cindy McCain wants in the White House as much or more as did Mrs. Kerry Ketchup. :uhoh:
 
Entrenched Democrat beat the Republican challenger by a narrow margin. I wasm't suprised and only a little disappointed.

He's a moderate Democrat and only votes against guns 50% of the time. :cuss:

Smoke
 
No state races for me, but my town did re-elect our Republican Mayor and Councilwoman. We're just about the only Republican town in the entire county. :what:
 
well, Senator Reid was re-elected. He is a Democrat, but a fairly moderate one. He isn't rabid anti, but certainly can't be called a pro-gun person. He doesn't really seem to care much and just goes along.
He is, however, a very powerful senator and could wind up becoming the senate minority leader. Good things for NV.

He does oppose the nuclear dump at Yucca Mountian though. :cuss: :cuss: If he would read some actual research and studies he would see that it isn't a problem. Stupid greenies!!!!
 
NRA allowed their Right to Carry bill's chief author to be defeated in Minnesota. They did very little to support her reelection. In fact, NRA did very little (a dozen postcard campaigns out of 134 seats) for any pro-gun candidate. So we lost at least 10 Representatives who had stood with us in passing Right to Carry. The Republicans went from a 15-seat majority to a 2-seat majority in the House.

NRA has lost the trust of Minnesota's pro-gun Republicans.

In Wisconsin, NRA couldn't defeat the single traitorous Representative who switched his vote and sustained the Governor's veto of Right to Carry legislation. This is up North in a solid pro-gun district.

NRA sure isn't feared in Wisconsin.
 
Didn't go well here, at all. The anti-gun incumbents were handily re-elected. In fact, my state senator, Tom Torlakson, didn't even have an opponent. He sponsors anti-gun legislation all the time. He also hasn't met a tax he didn't love. My assembly member, Loni Hancock, former mayor of Berkeley, was also relected. She did have an opponent, but he was pretty invisible. She got around 75% of the vote. Of course, our districts here are hopelessly gerrymandered. She has voted for every anti-gun bill to come along.

California also voted to impose a 1% surcharge on millionaires. Now, that doesn't even remotely apply to me and my husband, but of course, it could serve to drive more of the high-earners out of state. Several years ago, there were around 44,000 taxpayers in California that earned more than 1 million/year. In the past couple of years, that number has been around 25,000. Some of that decrease is not doubt due to the implosion of the high-tech bubble, but I wouldn't doubt that some of them also left the state and took their seven-digit incomes with them.

What the legislators and apparently the people of California don't realize is that the programs that are dependent on the tax dollars generated by these high-earners don't go away when the high-earners either leave the state or experience a decrease in income. In this case, the program funded by this initiative is to provide mental health care for indigents. If and when the tax dollars from millionaires dries up, they'll be looking to the rest of us to backfill the shortfall. :banghead:
 
Missouri did all right. Had a good showing by the Libertarian party. Did manage to get the Demos out of the Govenor's Mansion, and I think the senate and house stayed mostly in Repub control.

I'm looking forward to seeing if our new Repub gov will follow through on his progun promises...
 
Jrob, we share a represenatative it seems. Susan Pope was elected (A+ nra/goal rating) and Scott Brown got in, unfortunately on my side we have incumbent Susan Fargo who stayed in.

-James
 
F4GIB, the NRA was working on the race between turncoat Sherman and Barb Linton. Did they do enough? I really don't know. If you look at the Red/Blue map, you'll see that Sherman's district went to Kerry. I'm sure that spilled over into the race with Linton.

Statewide, the Republicans picked up one seat in the senate, and one in the assembly. That gives the party 19 senate seats, and 60 assembly seats, which means we need three senate Democrats and six assembly Democrats to override the governor's veto of concealed carry.

It's probably much too early to say whether we can hold onto those Democrats during an override vote. It would have been much easier if Sherman had lost.

Bear in mind, though, that most the gun owners in that district aren't strong pro-2A types. They're primarily hunters who have no use for concealed carry. I'm sure that Sherman appealed to "hunters and sportsmen" in his campaign.
 
we replaced anti-gun daschle w/ pro gun thune.
we re-elected pro-gun Democrat herseth.

no governor races.
the state house and senate was mostly repub, but none of them were rated or endorsed/not endorsed by the nra.
 
We chose Republican , freedom loving, Cuban refuge, everybody should be armed so it don't happen here Mel Martinez over Terrorist protecting ultra liberal Betty Castor.
The first Cuban American ever elected to the Senate.
We did good.
 
St. Louis metro? Get serious.

I think the guy running opposite Lacey Clay got like 4000 votes. My district went ~8/1 Kerry/Bush if not higher.
 
Well, Seattle is well on its way to becoming "San Francisco LITE" and taking the rest of the state along with it.
 
F4GIB said:
NRA allowed their Right to Carry bill's chief author to be defeated in Minnesota. They did very little to support her reelection. In fact, NRA did very little (a dozen postcard campaigns out of 134 seats) for any pro-gun candidate. So we lost at least 10 Representatives who had stood with us in passing Right to Carry. The Republicans went from a 15-seat majority to a 2-seat majority in the House.

NRA has lost the trust of Minnesota's pro-gun Republicans.
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The NRA allowed this? What did you do? I saw there were plenty of volunteer duties available from the NRA with very few people volunteering to help. Heck, even some local leadership posts were open. Did you help Lynda with literature drops? Or any other canidate? How about volunteer at one of the several county fair booths? Or the state fair GOP headquarters?
 
How races went

I live in West Central Ohio and all the counties around here went for Bush.Some counties went 2to1,3to1,and even 4to1 for Bush.And interesting was the vote for Bush almost eqealed the vote for the Marriage A mmendment
by the same number.
 
Anti-gun Senator Patty Murray beat pro-gun challenger George Nethercutt.

Mostly anti-gun Rep Adam Smith beat mostly pro-gun challenger Paul Lord.

Governors race is still waiting on absentee ballots.

Not good for the Evergreen state.
 
Smoke said:
Entrenched Democrat beat the Republican challenger by a narrow margin. I wasm't suprised and only a little disappointed.

He's a moderate Democrat and only votes against guns 50% of the time. :cuss:
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I agree. I don't think he's as moderate as he claims though. He voted against the bill to ban partial birth abortion.

brad cook
 
In Florida, race for senate seat was between Mel Martinez (R) and Betty Castor (D). They were vying for a seat that had been vacated by a Democrat. Martinez won by over 100,000 votes. :D He is the most outspoken about RKBA and the 2nd amendment of any Florida politician. Stated several times that 2nd amendment was about defense, and that RKBA was both a constitional and human right. :D
 
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