2012 elections

I’ve had enough of politics for the night. I don’t know how the nation will turn out – not good is my suspicion – but North Carolina turned out fairly well.

Pat McCrory picked up the governor’s seat beating Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton (D-NC) rather handily. This will be the first time NC has had a Republican governor since 1988. The Lt. Governor’s race is currently too close to call.

In the US House, Republicans have picked up the 8th, 11th, and 13th congressional districts which were held by Democrats. It is too close to call in the 7th where Rep. Mike McIntyre (D) holds a 400 vote lead over State Sen David Rouzer (R). Gun owners win either way. The Congressional delegation will either be 9-4 Republicans or 10-3 Republican with the Senate split.

The Republicans look to hold on to their majorities in both the State Senate and House.

And the state was just called for Mitt Romney. We did our part and now it is up to the rest of the nation.

UPDATE: I see Fox and most of the others have called it for Obama. It isn’t going to be pretty for the next four years and Chris Christie can rot in hell as far as I’m concerned.

UPDATE II: In North Carolina, the General Assembly will be solidly Republican. In the State House, Republicans will hold 77 seats as compared to the Democrats 43. This looks to be a net gain of 9. The State Senate will remain under Republican control with 31 Republicans and 19 Democrats. This is no change.

 Rep. Mike McIntyre (R-7) held on to his seat in Congress by 508 votes. He did have the NRA endorsement while GRNC was supporting his opponent State Sen. David Rouzer. In the 8th District, the other Blue Dog Democrat, Larry Kissell lost by over 20,000 votes to Richard Hudson. The 11th and 13th Districts were open seats with Democrat incumbents who chose not to run for re-election.

Pat McCrory won the governorship with over 54% of the vote while Dan Forest squeaked by with about a 100,000 vote margin.

Finally, not that it matters in the greater scheme of things but Mitt Romney did win the state by about 97,000 votes.

On the state level, I think we have a better chance to get more reforms passed with regard to gun laws. I think restaurant carry along with a clarification of park carry will come before the General Assembly in the 2013 session and pass.

I consider Jim Shepherd one of the more astute observers out there. Given his ties to the shooting industry combined with his experience as VP for news at CNN, when he reports on a “rumor” I tend to listen.

In today’s Shooting Wire, he reports on a meeting that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s legal staff is reported to have had with the FBI and ATF concerning a new assault weapons (sic) ban.

Don’t have the minutes of the meeting (yet), but sources tell me California Senator and longtime gun-hater Dianne Feinstein’s legal staff held meetings on Friday with FTB/ATF legal staff to discuss a new “Assault Weapons Ban” Madame Feinstein would be looking to push through Congress if President Obama wins reelection.

This same “pretty good intelligence” says the items that would lead to a ban would ban pistol grips and “high-capacity” magazines, eliminate any grandfathering and ban sales of “weapons in possession”. I don’t know about you, but if these things come to pass and I’m “in possession” I’m certainly not selling. In fact, the lack of interest in the idea surprised the California liberal’s legal staffers. Apparently, they believe no logical person could possible disagree with them.

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t begin (or end) with a rumor, but today and tomorrow aren’t exactly ordinary days. Today is the final day before the general election, and in case you haven’t noticed there are plenty of significant items on ballots across the nation.

I think such efforts would be just the start of bad things coming from the gun prohibitionists if Barack Obama is re-elected president. Obama said in the second debate that he would like to see a new ban on ARs and AKs.

As Jim notes and I would agree, if you haven’t already voted, then postpone what you are doing “short of live saving surgery” and get to the polls tomorrow. Or as they have been saying on Instapundit, this is a broken glass election – drag yourself to the polls and vote for Romney-Ryan even if you have to drag yourself across broken glass.

I saw this posted at the Chicago Boyz blog which deals with economics and politics from a free market perspective and I really liked it!

Early voting has ended in most states. So if you haven’t voted, Tuesday is your option. Make use of it. As someone said at the recent Gun Rights Policy Conference, this is the most dangerous election of our lifetimes especially when it comes to our Second Amendment rights.

So take heed of the picture below and finish the job started in 2010.