GOP ALSO TRIUMPHS IN THE HOUSE – AT 6:11 A.M. ET:  With so much attention focused on the Senate, we should not forget the Republican electoral record in the House.  It is spectacular.  From AP: 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans will hold at least 246 House seats come January, according to election results Saturday, giving the GOP a commanding majority that matches the party's post-World War II high during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's administration.

The GOP retained control of two seats in runoffs in Louisiana, expanding the advantage for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who can afford defections from his increasingly conservative caucus and still get legislation passed. Combined with the Republican takeover of the Senate, Congress will be all-GOP for the final two years of President Barack Obama's second term.

The latest count gives the GOP a 246-188 majority. One race, in Arizona, is still outstanding.

In Louisiana's 5th Congressional District, which extends from the state's northeast into parishes bordering Mississippi, physician Ralph Abraham defeated Jamie Mayo, the Democratic mayor of Monroe. The incumbent, Vance McAllister, had failed to advance to the runoff. Elected less than a year ago, the married McAllister saw his career undermined after a video surfaced earlier this year showing him kissing another woman.

In the 6th Congressional District, in the Baton Rouge area, former state coastal restoration chief Garret Graves turned back Democrat Edwin Edwards, a four-term governor and ex-congressman who had to overcome his 2000 corruption conviction and subsequent prison term.

One race still must be decided.

In a Democratic-held district in the Tucson, Arizona-area, an automatic recount will determine whether Rep. Ron Barber keeps his seat or Republican challenger Martha McSally prevails. McSally led by fewer than 200 votes.

If McSally wins, Republicans would have 247 seats, the largest majority since 1929-31 when the GOP controlled 270 seats in President Herbert Hoover's administration.

COMMENT:  And if Republicans put up a strong, winning presidential candidate in 2016, that House majority can even be expanded.

Most Americans are not fully aware of the disasters that have befallen the Democratic Party since Barack Obama became president.  He has now lost both houses of Congress.  Most state legislatures and governorships are in Republican hands.  And virtually the entire young leadership of the Democratic Party has been wiped out.  The party is geriatric, and is preparing to nominate a presidential candidate in 2016 who lives in the 1960s. 

When Obama was elected in 2008, some in the liberal press predicted that it would be the start of a Democratic era.  Not quite.

December 7,  2014