One State's Election Results

The recent mid-term election was a disaster for liberals nation-wide.  Liberal Democrats were defeated by those candidates who ran on a conservative agenda (repealing Obama Care, securing the borders, fiscal discipline, etc.).  It was a conservative victory of historical proportions.  Now to see if the winning candidates keep their word or just become more slimy politicians no better than any other. On the national level, let's take a look at the prognostications that were oh so wrong:
  Of interest in the national mood swing that just occurred is one area where nothing changed.

Let's take a look at a politically insignificant state's election results.  Delaware, though being just a pimple on the face of national politics, is the bluest of blue states. It's a state so far left that I'm pretty sure its illegal for your car to have a right-turn signal.

In the most recent, mid-term election, 36% of eligible voters participated. This is almost in line with the national average.

One U.S. Senator and Delaware's only U.S. Representative were up for re-election (Coons and Carney), and both won handily (55.8% and 59.8% of the votes, respectively).  Let's compare this to the 2012 election, which also had one U.S. Senator and the sole U.S. Representative races on the ballot.  The Democrats' victory in 2012 was 66.4% and 64.4% percent of the vote, respectively.  This represents a decrease in the Democrat's margin of victory of 10.6% and 4.6% respectively.

Such minimal inroads by the Republicans in a greater context of a Republican wave across the country, which clearly signaled that most people are anti-Obama and the libs, just shows how blue Delaware remains.  If this mid-term election cycle marked by a Republican wave can not move the needle in Delaware, it is evident that Delaware will remain blue in perpetuity.  It also shows how liberal the Republicans are (at least in one state) and how they do not provide a conservative contrast to the liberalism that reigns.  Were they to get away from the Republican establishment bullshit and have more Tea Party influence, there might be enough of a distinction to actually give the citizens a choice.  This wouldn't work, you say?  Well, how is the current situation working out for conservatives? A true conservative option could not do any worse.

If citizens were given a true conservative/liberal choice, instead of the current liberalism of both parties, they might attract more people like this guy:


So there you have it.  A politically insignificant state where a change in the national mood to the right has little, if any, effect on its political color.  It will forever be deep blue.