Good news (at least for some)

Some good news from last week’s election:

1. Republicans added two new African-Americans to the Congress with Allen West in Florida and Tim Scott in South Carolina.

2. Republicans also gained two new Hispanic stars this election: Sen.-elect Marco Rubio from Florida and the new governor of New Mexico, Susanna Martinez. So, how do Democrats portray Republicans as racist now? I’m sure they’ll come up with something. I think they are very worried about Rubio, who has star appeal.

3. But the biggest news (and the one less commonly known or discussed) is that Republicans clobbered the Democrats in the state gubernatorial and legislative races. Next year, state lawmakers draw new congressional districts, determining the congressional map for the next decade. In the past, Democrats have had a 2-1 advantage in congressional redistricting. Not anymore.

The list of governor races won by Republicans is amazing--Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Alabama, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Alaska, Maine, Iowa and Florida. They also swept the state legislatures.

Now, it’s true that the tidal wave didn’t sweep through all parts of the nation equally. Democrats won governor's races in California, New York, Massachusetts, Arkansas and Maryland. But what’s interesting about these victories is that all the Democrats' states are losing population—not a good sign for the future of liberalism in the nation.

More bad news from California for the Dems—we’re not only losing congressional seats for the first time since the '50s, but (thanks to the passage of Prop 20) we’re also taking the redistricting out of the hands of the California legislators (hugely Democratic) and turning it over to a Citizens Redistricting Commission.

4. The results will probably mean some Dems currently in Washington will abandon the leftist policies pushed so hard by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, making it easier for Republicans to gain some of their goals. No doubt Claire McCaskill, Jim Webb, Sherrod Brown, and Jon Tester of Montana -- all of whom will be facing the voters in two years -- noticed that popular, long-serving Democrat Russ Feingold just lost an election in a much more liberal state than their own.

All in all, it’s going to be an interesting couple of years. The key question is whether Barack Obama will be like Bill Clinton and modify his position to keep in step with the voters. All indications right now tell me he won’t want to compromise. He’s an elitist, leftist ideologue who thinks we are just too stupid to understand what good things he has done and will continue to do for us, as long as we are willing to turn our lives over to him and a giant national government. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want that. Let's keep the pressure on the Republicans to derail Obama's ambitious plans to remake this nation into another European state.