The Republican Party controls the state legislative chambers in most states. According to National Review Online, the GOP wave has left Democrats at their weakest point in state legislatures since the 1920s.. (Bottom line: 65 Republican, 23 Democrat, one tie, and four undecided.)
How did this happen? The Republican National Committee wants us to peg Hillary Clinton as the reason for Democrats’ losses, claiming that voters rejected yesterday her policies. Read Hillary’s Policies Were On The Ballot.
Quite a stretch, but the GOP figures the former Secretary of State and wife of President Bill Clinton will the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016. Why not get started early?
GOP Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has put together a Facebook album titled #HillarysLosers featuring photographs of Clinton with Alison Lundergan Grimes of Kentucky, Representative Bruce Braley of Iowa and Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina – all of whom were defeated on Tuesday.
“Today, voters sent a message to President Obama and Hillary Clinton, rejecting their policies and many of their candidates,†Mr. Paul wrote.