Bill Roper's Journal

I haven't found anyone who is happy about the elections. Democrats are unhappy with the number of seats lost in the house. Tea partiers are unhappy that several of their high profile candidates lost. Republicans are unhappy in situations like yours where Democrats took state offices. All of these seem to be just as true in the state where I live as they are in the state where you live.

I've been trying to look at the positives (from my point of view, which is probably opposite yours in many cases). We got to keep Boxer. We got a good Lt. Governor.

From your view, your state sent a Republican to the Senate. I suspect that pleased you.

The election was a very mixed bag. Human nature is to focus on the places it didn't go our way. We'll all be happier if we find the things that went our way and focus on those.