My Take of the Midterm Elections

So things are slowing down from the drama of last night. The GOP have the House and the DEMS held on to the Senate. But I wanted to share my take of things, please feel free to share as well:

• The losses were not as bad as many thought they would be. Many of the seats were picked up in places where they were expected to, such as Kentucky, Florida and Minnesota.
• This will make the Obama administration tougher and stronger in their fight to make change.
• The Tea Party winners are inexperienced and it will show in the next two years. They will learn that their agenda will not be on the forefront.
• The Exit Polls shows that young people didn't come out, but folks without college degrees, White males and seniors made a hit at the voting booths. see here
• I really believe that some voters put race/racism ahead of their own interest. The Tea Party movement basically voted against their own interest because of Obama.
• The Exit Polls did not speak about LGBT community, so the LGBT anger party didn't make a big appearance last night.
• We hit it big in California, thanks to a large turn out of Latino voters.
• The Black vote was down for midterms.
• The lack of understanding of the stimulus plan and health care, drove folks to the booths.
• The Tea Party major players loss, but the smaller ones won. Is that a good thing or something to look out for.
• We loss 2 strong fighters, Alan Grayson in FL and Patrick Murphy.
• The Progressive movement has been challenged and I'm not sure what's in store.
• In an interesting turn of events more minorities in the GOP won seats and more LGBT peeps won seats as well.
• And finally, I think we will see the Obama we voted for.