Election 2010 Winners And Losers

If you were keeping up with our election coverage last night, you probably already know that the results of this year's midterm election are already rocking the political landscape. If you didn't, you have a lot of catching up to do.

HuffPost has compiled a list of the 2010 election's biggest winners and losers to help you slog through the meaning and the repercussions of Tuesday's verdict.

Who won the biggest? Who lost the worst?

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Virtually every incumbent who went down on Tuesday was a Democrat, from Blue Dog Reps. Baron Hill (Ind.) and Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (S.D.) to progressive Sen. Russ Feingold (Wis.) and Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (Ohio). A rare Republican in this group was Rep. Joseph Cao. Exit polls showed that voters were intensely worried about the state of the economy, frustrated with the federal government and didn't hold a favorable view of either party. As the party in power, however, Democrats faced the majority of voters' wrath.

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Virtually every incumbent who went down on Tuesday was a Democrat, from Blue Dog Reps. Baron Hill (Ind.) and Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (S.D.) to progressive Sen. Russ Feingold (Wis.) and Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (Ohio). A rare Republican in this group was Rep. Joseph Cao.

Exit polls showed that voters were intensely worried about the state of the economy, frustrated with the federal government and didn't hold a favorable view of either party. As the party in power, however, Democrats faced the majority of voters' wrath.

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[niteshift]

02:42 PM on 11/11/2010

It's obovious by reading these comments that nobody else but me knows what they're talking about.

[Cody Bowman]

06:49 AM on 11/06/2010

It is my personal belief that the American governing body has failed. Countless American politicians, CEO's, corporate shareholders, and others are justifiably guilty of treason, antitrust, murder, falsifying documents/reports, out and out lying to the public about anything for profit. These kind of people do not care, and will never care about preserving anything related to life, or the natural loving energy of this once beautiful planet. They act just as a corporation by definition, maximizing profits no matter the cost, no matter what laws need changed, rights stripped, or just downright criminal psychopathic activity is needed to do so. I support, back, and agree with everything I have learned and seen from the sources at http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com. Every single politician in America needs to be scrutinized against these kind of behaviors. Corporate leaders and investors must never be allowed to exchange in business agreement ties with political 'electee's. We must destroy and NEVER revisit this failed, linear, monetary system again.

[Cody Bowman]

06:48 AM on 11/06/2010

No human worthy of being alive can ever be allowed to do what we have let all of these people do. They had money, they networked, they invested and talked, and from there on it's been disgusting and obvious displays of unethical and fraudulent deal making an business for years and years. This "pyramid" of people control amongst them, so much wealth, so much of the worlds tangible assets and resources, so much political fear and influence around the world that they alone dictate all of our inevitable demises. We will all die if we do not stop this, life will end, ever species extinct. Few individuals have tried and succeeded for many many years to control the world and everything that entails, they are not far off.

[Cody Bowman]

06:47 AM on 11/06/2010

America's monetary system is fraud, it kills innocent people an destroys every ideal this country once stood for and was created on. No more. Every single person tied into these acts needs to be held accountable. Parties involved need to be severely punished, and even put to death by the voices of the REAL MAJORITY. The old white men who have created and stolen trillions of dollars from all of us, while destroying our world to advance their gains and the gains of their "pyramid" contacts are not humans.

[Cody Bowman]

06:43 AM on 11/06/2010

In essence, our entire life cycle and existence on this earth is fading, simply because of a select few 'Elites' whom control so much fake, manipulated wealth. REAL people die all the time at the hands of American corporations. REAL politicians are assassinated in other countries for any attempt to prevent this disgusting, cyclic, unethical, and immoral resource raping corporate government from take over. Things must change. If one analyzes the sadistic, sickening, perpetually fraudulent ring of direct ties between corporation chairs, bank owners, 'elected' political figures and lobbyists; you'll want to die. America is not free. A small percentage of American business owners, bankers and politicians LITERALLY create world debt in the interest of profit....which is fake, and created from thin air to begin with.

[Cody Bowman]

05:38 AM on 11/06/2010

Merely to save myself time, effort, and headache I will be brief. It is my belief and opinion that time has come for very serious, very radical change. As an American born citizen I am personally ashamed and disgusted with the country I was born in. The corporate label that my country unlawfully and deliberately forces down the throats of any exploitable communities worldwide has to burn. People, not just in the United States of Captivity but all over need to speak out now. If our voices are ignored we unify tighter, louder, and angrier. America is fraudulently and unethically plundering and destroying the very life of planet Earth. Every single ecosystem we know is in rapid decline. It is painstakingly obvious our government officials, with or without regard to electoral legality, are not acting for us. American political figureheads are directly allowing, and assisting, disgusting corporate disregard for ever aspect of life itself. It has become not only accepted by hundreds of shareholders, CEO's, and directly invested politicians, but common citizens also. It is my personal belief that at the root of the problem is American financial institutions and of course the Federal Reserve Bank. Please attempt to understand that our financial framework in this country is literally designed to create profit for a private bank system. That bank system then produces loan dollars from thin air pushing imaginary, and monetarily fraudulent create income on the loaned.

[worry nah]

01:38 AM on 11/06/2010

God almighty, our 'Canadian socialist health care system', which has been equated to that evil of all evilest socialist systems of providing health care that could possibly exist, has worked for me for as long as I can remember. At twenty years of age I received the third aorta blockage operation performed in Canada. Canadians happen to have a two to three year life expectation average higher than you have in the U.S., despite the supposedly long medically waiting periods. (this is bogus by the way). Oh, and by the way, I really do feel just as free as most of you, and, in particular more than your republicans and tea partiers do down there. By the way I am seventy-one years of age, and would guarantee that I could destroy O'Reilly, Hannitty, Limbaugh, (forget your bimbo female correspondents, including Sarah) in any debate they might wish to take part in . They could set the parameters. Finally, it's a sort of a shame to see a country, which, I think, originally had most of the best intentions, be dragged down, and possibly, dragging down the rest of the world economically by a completely wrong philosophy, (unfettered free trade, deregulation, unfettered capitalism = greed, and a rich elitist class system). Anyway, at 71 years of age, I'm not likely to be around to see the results. I have suggested to my son to find an island totally removed from any influence of the U.S.A.

[SarcasticFringehead]

03:01 AM on 11/06/2010

The U.S. is getting cruder and stupider.

We are being fleeced like sheep by the corporations and the wealthy elite, and that's just the way most of the American people like it.

You're luck to be Canadian.

[Paperless Tiger]

12:10 AM on 11/06/2010

In Georgia I know Republicans who voted for Democrat Roy Barnes, who lost. Georgia uses
voting machines that have been proven to have security vulnerabilities, with no paper trail. There is really no way to certify the results other than to take their word for it. Personally I think they are liars and cheats.

[Schmice]

11:49 PM on 11/05/2010

Does anybody else find it ironic that on the heels of the Republican victory we start off by turning our clocks back this Saturday night?

[dporterdvd]

12:28 AM on 11/06/2010

It's very ironic and the weather is turning chilly.

[SarcasticFringehead]

03:02 AM on 11/06/2010

One giant leap backward followed by another.

[Christopher Bullivant]

09:02 PM on 11/05/2010

The fact that people interested in re-enactment can have that used against them is one hell of a pathetic condemnation against the American people.

Look to the issues, not to hobbies.

[Schmice]

01:23 AM on 11/06/2010

The voters did look to the issues and he lost.

[George Hanshaw]

08:13 PM on 11/05/2010

And here is another voice heard from. Unfortunately, not a very rational one. How can you convince yourself that the INDEPENDENTS voted for the conservatives because you hadn't been liberal enough? It takes a certain mental disorder called 'Progressive.'

Ousted Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, one of the most outspoken, liberal members of the House, said Thursday that Tuesday's election was a "national disaster" and a repudiation of the Democrats' "strategy of appeasement."

In his first interview since losing his seat, Grayson upended conventional wisdom about his party’s 60-seat loss in the House, saying that if Democrats had been more progressive in their policies, Democratic voters would have gone to the polls.

"Our strategy for two years has been appeasement, and look where it got us," Grayson said on MSNBC. "I think Democrats want to see a fighting leadership, they want to see a fighting president — somebody who actually accomplishes good things for constituents." As examples of what Democrats should have focused on, Grayson listed the Employee Free Choice Act, immigration reform, civil rights and women's rights.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44715.html

[wkb2texans]

11:31 PM on 11/05/2010

WOW ... who would have "thunk it?

Dems had one of the worst losses in 60 years because folks were unhappy that the President didn't take it to the Repubs like Grayson would have ...

Good grief ... what a pinhead

[jcabowers]

07:31 PM on 11/05/2010

Y'know, when you put a suit on Sen DeMint, he appears to be almost human.

[Erik Deerly]

03:27 AM on 11/06/2010

He is not.

[worry nah]

06:46 PM on 11/05/2010

Over the years I have often felt that the statement that "the American electorate is a lot smarter than one might give them credit for," or that "the American voter is aware of what he is voting for when he gets into the voting booth" etc...most often promulgated by so-called political pundits, most often from the Republican hacks (ofentimes blonde, leggy and dumb) over at Fox, were about the stupidest fallacies tumbling from the mouths of these bozos. The results of Tuesday last have confirmed these feelings. How an electorate could vote in this bunch of republicans, and even sprinkle in a number of total 'whacko' tea party candidates for good measure is truly bizarre. Starting with Reagan's administration and his deregulation, carrying through four years of Bush senior, and even including Clinton's looking the other way on deregulation, and finally culminating in the younger Bush's anything goes (corporately) philosophy, his tax cuts, making it now the widest gap between the rich and everyone else, and his getting enmeshed in two unwinnable wars, finally resulting in a truly staggering deficit, and a global recession. Yet you hired these crazies again, and they haven't changed their positions. Talk about intelligence !!!!

Anyway I'm Canadian, unfortunately, many of your mistakes do affect us...

[jcabowers]

07:33 PM on 11/05/2010

Yes, it is utterly discouraging to see so blatantly portrayed the myopic points of view of so many American voters.

[AyeChart]

06:10 PM on 11/05/2010

The first help will be the 13 new GOP senators Mr. McConnell welcomes in January. Republicans failed to gain the majority, but Mr. McConnell isn't complaining about a 47-strong caucus. "When you are down around 41, every man is a king and every woman a queen. Lose even one, and you are toast. Now I've got wiggle room." He adds, with his dry wit, that he's also got "23 Democrats up in 2012 who have a newfound appreciation for the problems of spending and debt."
--K. Strassel

Write Webb and other conservative-in-pretense-onlies and tell them you are watching.

[javaJimmy]

03:58 PM on 11/05/2010

The BIG winner this election cycle? Bad Behavior.
From the Tea Party at the town hall meetings, to the signs of the President with a bone in his nose, to the GOP just saying no to practically every bill that came down the pike.
That's all I gotta say.