7. Sandra Fluke lost
Sandra Fluke, the law student who came to fame lobbying to force religious institutions to buy her contraception, ran for state senate in California, raised more than a million dollars and lost.
6. Many wins in statewide races
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List won nine out of the 10 statewide races in which they played. This includes pro-life women winning in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Nevada and Iowa.
5. Pro-life Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback hangs on
Sam Brownback was a pro-life hero when in the Senate. He was under attack as governor mostly because of his tax cuts and spending cuts, but pro-lifers were still cheered by his comeback victory.
4. Pro-life majority in the U.S. Senate
Flipping the Senate to GOP control also means flipping the Senate to a pro-life majority. There will probably be 54 GOP seats after Alaska is counted and after Louisiana’s runoff election. Only four of those Republicans are pro-choice — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Kirk and Shelley Moore Capito. (Pro-choice Republicans Scott Brown and Monica Wehby both lost.) That’s 50 pro-life Republicans. Add the three Democrats who are often pro-life — Joe Donnelly, Bob Casey and Joe Manchin — and you have a pro-life majority in the Senate.
3. Youngest member of Congress is a pro-life woman
Elise Stefanik in Upstate New York just became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. At 30 years old, she’ll also be the youngest member of Congress. So it’s pretty sweet for pro-lifers that she’s 100 percent pro-life and endorsed by the Susan B. Anthony list. Mia Love in Utah is also a pro-life woman in her 30s elected last night. These two could help the image of the GOP, which isn’t doing well generally with younger women.
2. Wendy Davis got destroyed by 1 million votes
Wendy Davis became a media superstar when she carried off a standing filibuster in defense of late-term abortion. Her media cheerleaders pushed her to run for governor. Apparently, someone thought that late-term abortion was a good springboard for statewide office.
Davis didn’t just lose: She was utterly destroyed. She’s under 40 percent in the current count. When the counting is done, Davis might lose by 1 million votes. Davis’s vote deficit may be greater than the deficit of underfunded no-hope Republican Neel Kashkari in California, which has a population 50 percent larger.
If current results hold, Wendy Davis will have lost last night by the biggest vote margin of any major-party candidate in the country running for Senate or Governor.
This was an embarrassment for Davis and her media fanbase.
1. Cory Gardner beats Mark Uterus
Somebody told Sen. Mark Udall that he would win reelection by pretending his pro-life opponent Cory Gardner was going to ban condoms and birth-control pills. Most of Udall’s ads were about sex and abortion. He even had an OB/GYN star in one ad.
Udall attacked Gardner again and again for the imaginary contraception ban and for Gardner’s actual pro-life record. NARAL spent more than a quarter-million dollars to run late ads actually claiming Gardner would ban condoms.
Gardner beat the obsessed Udall by more than four points, even while Colorado’s Democratic governor appears to have won reelection.
Good riddance, Sen. Uterus.
