I usually don’t stay up to get all the election results, but I had some other affairs to take care of tonight, so now is as good a time as any to do the round-up of tonight’s election events.

In short, Republicans because of their weak hand and inability to sell themselves have taken a beating. The Democrats now have the US House of Representatives and I’m sure Communists and Terrorists are pleased. Control of the US Senate could also change hands and that’s still too close to call, with 2 races still without a declared winner. But it looks to me like Democrats will assume control of the US Senate also. There goes the neighborhood!

On issues such as marriage, values won the night. There are some other values related votes that don’t appear to have gone very well.

So here’s the rundown:

• Here in TN Bob Corker won and Harold Ford Jr. loss. My guy Heyward only got a few thousand votes, but when Corker disappoints Conservatives I’ll know I never gave him my vote.

  I thought the concession and victory speeches in this race were interesting. Ford said that he is going to pray for strength and wisdom to grow from this experience. He closed with Ephesians 6:12.

  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

  (New King James Version)
  Ford only recited the first portion of the verse up to the word “powers” and then kept repeating the word.

  He says it is a scripture they’ve used a lot during the campaign. I think his choice of scripture is ironic given all his prior claims of the Lord and greater powers being involved in the race. He’s always spoken as if God himself was blowing wind under his wings to fly him to victory. But in defeat instead of openly acknowledging that God did not want him to have the job, he suddenly resorted to talk about wrestling against “powers”. The bottom line is that TN is a state with stronger values than the voting record of a Memphis Liberal like Harold Ford. And if he were not so Liberal, all that talk of “history being made” by a man with his skin tone winning the race would have come true.

  I guess now Ford can go hang out at his favorite Confederate bar. Since he claims that the Lord sent him there.

  …
  He talks about driving by the Little Rebel Bar and Grill in Jackson, Tenn., one day and how “my God is telling me to stop by” – despite the Confederate flags on the trucks outside.
  …

  Corker during his victory speech had his crowd give Harold Ford Jr. a hand for running a good campaign.

• In Pennsylvania a good man named Rich Santorum was defeated. All I have to say about this race is that I once lived in PA and I thank God I left.
• Also in PA Lynn Swann loss. Republicans need to stop trying to run celebrity candidates.
• In Maryland Michael Steele loss. Like PA, I’m glad I left the place. I really don’t care that a Republican loss MD’s governor’s race. I told you before that I don’t like Robert L. Ehrlich. He is a Liberal with an elephant on his chest.

  But Steele won’t concede. He needs to let it go and move on.

• In Ohio Ken Blackwell lost. Sad.
• In my beloved Georgia Sonny Perdue won big! I’m very glad he won and won big. He had everyone from the Liberals to Confederate battle flag fans against him and he’s overcome them all.

You can see the results of various important ballot initiatives here.

Here in TN marriage was clearly and appropriately defined as the union of one man and one woman. In fact, here in TN, every single county voted in favor of the State Constitutional Amendment. So isn’t it ironic that the largest newspaper in this state the Tennessean tried to encourage voters not to clearly define marriage as a union of one man and one woman? Some people still actually pay money for that paper although it’s worthless and morally bankrupt. They attempted to play it as if it’s like an issue of race, but in all counties with majorities of various races people showed the Tennessean that this is not the same kind of issue. Because the good people of TN realize the words of the Lord are good and worth having as a standard for social order.

Almost every state with a measure to define marriage voted for it, but it appears things are still up in the air in Arizona. Issues like Stem Cell Research and Parental Notification of a grandchild about to be murdered in the womb are up in the air in states where those issues were on the ballot.

Ohio voters just said “no” to slot machines.

In Michigan the hard fought for Civil Rights Initiative, to stop entitlements simply because of skin tone or gender was passed. This is a good thing.

In South Dakota the proposed abortion ban was unfortunately voted down. Lord have mercy.

Several states voted to raise their minimum wage. And some small companies will probably end up laying off some workers as a result, if they wish to follow the law. It will probably make some companies consider cheap illegal labor.

Well that’s the deal. Not exactly a Conservative’s delight, but in times like these just pray, keep reading the word and don’t give up.

update 11/8/2006 8:28AM: Eric mentions:

On a positive note, Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), RINO members of the gang of 14 were defeated. I hope that this will be a lesson learned prior to 2008.

Indeed!

update 11/8/2006 10:15AM: I forgot to mention that Joe Lieberman won in US Senate race in Connecticut as an Independent. And hopefully he will not let the Democrats influence his votes since that party turned its back on him.

Arizona passed initiatives to deny various social benefits to illegals, along with establishing English as the state language. They failed on the issue of marriage. And a good Conservative who stood against illegal immigration, JD Hayworth was defeated.

In North Carolina a good Conservative named Vernon Robinson loss, although it was not unexpected considering the district he ran in.