The 2012 Election Comes to a Familiar Looking Close

The dust has settled on yet another election.  The 30,000 foot view of this election could be seen as follows: billions of dollars spent, bitter election fights, voter fatigue from the near constant onslaught of prediction poles, and laser-like focus on only “swing states,” for essentially a status quo result.

At the end of the night (or I suppose early Wednesday morning) President Obama was reelected to his second term.  Nationally the Democrats picked up two seats in the U.S. Senate to not only retain but grow their majority control to 53 D’s - 45 R’s.  The Republicans maintained the majority control of the U.S. House 233 R’s to 193 D’s.

In the U.S. Senate MH supporter Joe Donnelly (D- Indiana) won his state’s seat.  Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who is the Senate sponsor for the MH industries bill in Congress, held off his challenger to retain his seat as well.  In Massachusetts Elisabeth Warren who was the original architect and driving force behind the creation of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) defeated Republican incumbent Scott Brown.

In our great state of Texas as expected the Republican party maintains the majority with our Congressional delegation (24 R’s -12D’s), Republican Ted Cruz handily won Texas’ open senate seat to join Republican John Cornyn in D.C., the Texas Senate remained unchanged in its Republican to Democrat ratio of 19 R’s -12 D’s, and the Republicans maintain the majority in the House, albeit less of the super-majority they enjoyed in 2010, with 92 R’s to 58 D’s.

TMHA has multiple more in-depth stories related to this year’s election coming out in our next Texas MH Quarterly that went to press the day after the election.  It should be arriving in over 1,300 mailboxes in the coming weeks.

For other election related stories of interest, see the links in our Latest News section of our home page at www.texasmha.com