{"id":30457,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/north-carolina-headlock-congressman-loses-to-renee-elmers\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:42","slug":"north-carolina-headlock-congressman-loses-to-renee-elmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/north-carolina-headlock-congressman-loses-to-renee-elmers.php","title":{"rendered":"NORTH CAROLINA: Headlock Congressman loses to Renee Elmers"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Remember this Guy?<\/strong><\/p>

From Eric Dondero:<\/p>

That's right. The guy who put a young conservative video reporter in a headlock on a Washington D.C. street lost his race. Longtime Democrat Congressman Bob Etherige lost to Tea Party Republican and Registered Nurse Renee Elmers. <\/p>

From the Washington Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>

Weirdly, it appears only seven-term Democrat Bob “Who are you?” Etheridge -- neck and neck with his challenger throughout the night -- finally succumbed to Renee Elmers (according to WRAL news of Raleigh).<\/p><\/blockquote>

Elmers ran fiery campaign commercials including one accusing Etherige and the Democrats of being soft on Islamo-Fascism and supportive of the Ground Zero Mosque in NYC. <\/p>

Etherige was the only Democrat Congressman to go down to defeat in the State. <\/p>

Democrats lose the NC House; a loss of \"Titanic proportions\"<\/strong><\/p>

<\/a>In other North Carolina results, the State House of Representatives has gone Republican. Continuing:<\/p>

If history was to be a guide with respect to the Democrats’ lock on the N. C. General Assembly, history was a no-show this November. The N.C. legislature should have remained in the hands of a party that had not let go of power for more than 100 years. Ignoring their appalling ethics, one had to admire the sheer tenacity of Tar Heel Democrats who -- despite all manner of corruption charges and accusations -- had managed to keep the state in their clutches through scandal after scandal (since the horse and buggy age).<\/p>

And yet North Carolina is now red at the state level. This is a flip of titanic proportions. According to the Charlotte Observer:<\/p>

Republicans haven't led both chambers together since their Fusion coalition with farmers got defeated in 1898. That includes a 112-year losing streak in the Senate and only four years of House control in the 1990s.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/blockquote>

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