Red tide

Voters expressed their opposition to federal government creep yesterday, putting a Republican majority in control of the House of Representatives and narrowing the  Democrat majority in the Senate.

President Obama remains in office, unfortunately.  Hopefully that problem can be addressed in two years.

The election also saw some notable gains in state government.  Pennsylvania ended up with a unified state government under the GOP.  Minnesota's legislature went Republican, though Mark Dayton won back the governorship for the Democrats.

In Florida, Marco Rubio handily won the race for the seat formerly held by Mel Martinez.  Rick Scott appears to have narrowly won the race for governor over Alex "Honesty.  Integrity." Sink.  Sink may increase her resemblance to Al Gore by challenging the results of the election.

Here's the latest from the State of Florida (myflorida.com)

Florida election law calls for a mandatory machine recount for elections closer than one half percent of the vote.  The figures above show Scott with a full percentage point lead with a bit to spare (a 68,000 vote lead).  That's quite a bit for Sink to make up, and these figures apparently represent all of Florida's precincts after some counties (like Palm Beach county) counted late into the night.

I'd worry a bit about fraud if Sink somehow gets a recount going.  The recount seems unlikely, however.