Approaching 11:00 pm Local Time In Middle Tennessee, Nov 2, 2010

In TN-4, what appeared to be a tight race between incumbent Democrat Lincoln Davis and Republican challenger Scott DeJarlais ended up being a blowout for DeJarlais.

Davis is one of those creepy Tennessee old-boy Democrat pols who tend to view the district as a personal plantation, assuming their constituents are just too stupid to figure out they're being systematically screwed. The ads the Democrats ran on his behalf, viciously attacking DeJarlais by dredging up allegations from his ex-wife from years ago. This, well, went over badly. Very badly. Very, very badly.

Finally damn time this nonsense backfire on someone.

Likewise, Rand Paul, trashed by Conway in the Kentucky Senate race, won going away. Not even close. And Conway gets to go back to his job tomorrow as Attorney General of Kentucky with his own ethics and credibility profoundly damaged by his own behavior.

Nikki Haley was trashed by allegations of an affair during her run for the governor's mansion in South Carolina, and survived the experience to win.

The voters were not in the mood for this BS, but the HopeyChangies just didn't seem to get the memo.

People willing to do anything, lie/cheat/steal, to win are utterly unqualified to hold office.

Send the memo around again, somebody.

And, locally, it appears that Doug Jackson, one of the worst and dumbest state senators in the history of Tennessee, is losing to his GOP opponent. Which warms OldSouth's heart. He asked on a number of occasions over the past twenty years why no one was willing to run against the man. Most expressed literal fear for their own health. OS always kept his head low, lest he find himself run into one of the many deep ditches of this county late at night. No kidding.

For his part, Jim Cooper, a BlueDog Democrat, held on to TN-5, the Nashville seat, but faced some energetic opposition. His victory speech was very muted, in which he expressed his sensitivity to the legitimate concerns of those who voted for his opposition. In other words, Himself can't assume Cooper will be voting for the next hunka-hunka-steaming-pork sent to Congress.

Steve Cohen won TN-9 easily, the Memphis seat. Charlotte Bergmann, a black conservative Republican, fought the good fight, but sadly the plantation is still alive and well in Memphis.

Fincher rolled over Herron for TN-8, unsurprisingly. Roy Herron didn't stand a chance. Being closely identified with AlGore and the retiring and much disdained John Tanner had to have hurt him.


Bill Haslam sailed into the governor's office. Again, no surprise. Mike McWherter is the son of former Governor Ned Ray McWherter, and that was his only qualification. Next!

OS did have hopes for the GOP to take the Senate, but it is not to be. New York and California just assume TheOne will be bailing them out, with no accountability required. So they vote for more of the same.

Someone send them the memo, please.

We are on the front end of the real pain. They gotta figure things out for themselves.

Michigan and Ohio both voted in conservative GOP governors. For those reading from overseas, this would have been unimaginable even a couple of years ago. Both states have finally felt the lash badly enough, and the voters in the small towns and outlying counties finally decided to install some grownups.

The shadow hanging over it all is Obama. Anyone who identified with the man, apart from deep-blue states, went down in flames.

He'll dismiss it all tomorrow, blame it on Bush, on the stupid voters, on the citizenry who he considers his enemies, on anyone except where the responsibility lies. Then he'll climb on his BigBird for a trip to Mumbai, spending money we're borrowing from China at the rate of $200,000,000 a day.

We've sent him the memo, ya'll. Still don't think He's read it yet.

Waiting on Nevada...