The REAL Winners And Losers Of The 2010 Midterm Elections (PHOTOS)

The 2010 election will be endlessly analyzed for weeks on end: Why did the Democrats lose the House? What was the significance of the Tea Party? Will President Obama achieve his agenda with a gridlocked Congress? What is Christine O'Donnell going to do now?

Among the confusion, however, this election had some real winners and losers, even if they weren't necessarily displayed at the ballot box. Here's a definitive, conclusive list of the real winners and losers the morning after the midterms.

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LOSER: Whoever Runs Sarah Palin's Facebook

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This poor, poor ghost writer possibly has the hardest job in politics: Updating Sarah Palin's Facebook with whatever drabble about the "lamestream media" Palin feels like spewing out that hour. It's not too late! Start including cries for help within the copy! You must escape!

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This poor, poor ghost writer possibly has the hardest job in politics: Updating Sarah Palin's Facebook with whatever drabble about the "lamestream media" Palin feels like spewing out that hour. It's not too late! Start including cries for help within the copy! You must escape!

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[Moderate Independent]

05:08 PM on 11/16/2010

It's too bad Meg Whitman got raked over the coals as a candidate. She seemed to be a bright, and uccessful women. She wasn't extreme and her views were very moderate. I thought liberals would be able to give her a chance based on those things alone.But instead, we get a retread like Jerry Brown, who if not for a technicality of the law codes, wouldn't have got another chance to run. He has been in government in California his entire life, and he and Californians don't have much to show for it.

[RedBirdy]

10:47 AM on 11/11/2010

Losers-- the lower middle class, poor, uninsured, and unemployed.

[Aristedes DuVal]

08:22 AM on 11/09/2010

BLOOMBERG-MADOFF 2012

[compaqdrvr]

10:21 AM on 11/08/2010

Not in the Streets of Oklahoma town. Lawsuit pending

[SpikeC]

07:19 PM on 11/07/2010

Too bad the Quayle ad won't play.

[patg00]

02:13 PM on 11/04/2010

If Al kida (long I ) was smart instead of trying to blow up UPS and Fed Ed planes, they should just put money into the USChamber, and American crossroads and watch us blow ourselves up.

[afrodesia]

04:15 AM on 11/04/2010

Wait! Is 'rent too damn high guy' wearing black gloves too? Besides the facial hair being a side show in its self..the gloves are a true WTF moment...

[octaviosergio2]

03:18 AM on 11/04/2010

you'll be surprise to know that a few ''stoners'' voted against 19 for one reason''to keep the feds out of california.'' things are just fine with the medical laws we have.untill the rest of the country catches up with california, voting for a law like 19 does not make sense.

[Winthorpe]

03:40 AM on 11/04/2010

They're not just fine for me. I don't have a card, so I still need people to buy for me by saying, "Pssst, hey buddy."

[CognitoErgoSum]

01:53 AM on 11/04/2010

If sanity had been the real winner, the House would've stayed Democratic and the Senate would have Dem. super majority.

[HeyTheist]

01:05 AM on 11/04/2010

As has already been stated, all Americans (except the filthy rich) are the losers, and have been for more than 40 years. All the ridiculous "issues" we are spoon-fed by our politicians are there to distract us from the real issue: big business is ruling this country. Healthcare reform has everyone up in arms, but I think you will find that it only helps pharmaceutical companies, other insurance companies, and hurts everyone else.
Don't ask, don't tell is also a distraction. How about the fact that most soldiers know whether their comrades are gay, and don't really give a shit? We're being fleeced by corporate America, and we're fighting over whether there are death squads written in the healthcare reform bill. We're all in the matrix.
Take the blue pill.

[afrodesia]

04:01 AM on 11/04/2010

F & F...Just for the Matrix reference and the hard core truth that the reference is correct.

[isaidit]

12:20 AM on 11/04/2010

It wasn't that stoners couldn't be bothered to turn out for prop 19. They couldn't remember what prop 19 was about or when or where. If the prop 19 vote would be scheduled on 4/20 that would see a huge response. Maybe.

[Sol76]

10:56 PM on 11/03/2010

The illegal drugs trade would be exhaling in relief since Proposition 19 was rejected by Californians. Their winnings are in the billions and the prison industry will be celebrating with them.

[Ashish Srivastava]

10:45 PM on 11/03/2010

Two good things came out of this election
1. Most of the ex CEOs who put millions of dollars in the race provided jobs and boost the economy. I thank them for it, but I am happy that their CEO style behavior won't be a part of the political machinery.

2. Most of the candidates who were running on 'anger' engine and using baseball bat to show their anger, saying 'man up', 'get your man pants on' etc were defeated. This tells me that people maybe frustrated but not that insane that they will elect these loons

[octaviosergio2]

03:23 AM on 11/04/2010

broke back mountain give a whole new meaning to ''manning up'' or ''cowboy up''

[afgail]

07:37 PM on 11/03/2010

The good news is that Meg Whitman spent $160,000,0000 on her campaign and lost to Brown who spent about one tenth of that. I think she spent something like $53.00 per vote. I guess you just can not buy the highest office in the state of California anymore.

[ArtsyJane]

12:36 AM on 11/04/2010

I think that 160 million is not a very impressive amount of money in California. If she had spent that amount in Alabama, she would have probably won.

[afrodesia]

04:05 AM on 11/04/2010

And perhaps that is the state she really belongs in...

[Marvin Goington]

06:56 PM on 11/03/2010

Overall, generally speaking, looking at it from a positive perspective, taking the good with the bad, selecting the better of the evils that we somehow allowed to be presented to us, while hoping for the best, but knowing that we are only engaging in wishful hoping, and stupidly trying to put a positive spend on it without a logical reason; the elections results from yesterday did not yield disappointing results for those among us who do not give a damn one or another yet! ("YET" being the operational key word in this rant). In short, if you think that you won something, you probably lost, unless of course you are one of the candidates that clearly and decisively, without question, won an election yesterday.

[afrodesia]

04:06 AM on 11/04/2010

F & F for poetic spin on what's really going on.