I did some math using data from CNN regarding election results, to track the impact to incumbents in this charade..., I mean election. Of all 435 House seats and the 37 Senate seats that were up, 472 total unless my data is wrong, and please correct if so, here are a few basis numbers:
Senate:
22 incumbents up, 1 lost.
That's a 95.5% incumbency success rate.
House:
390 incumbents ran, 46 lost.
That's an 88.2% incumbency success rate overall. It's an 88.7% success rate for "Republicans."
If we factor in how many of those Republicans were actual liberty-loving Constitutionally oriented ones, the success factor for the establishment grows notably and reduces the "angry voter" impact to a mere fraction of what it is otherwise and to insignificant status.
As well, there were 7 races still being decided and beyond projection outcomes.
In an election where in the minds of living Americans the voter outrage has never been greater, if these results do not speak volumes about how there is absolutely no hope in politics, then I have no idea what ever will.
The window dressing candidates like Rand Paul winning, even a Senate seat, merely offer enough hope to those backing the establishment's system to keep them in the game. As the SS Officer Amon Goeth says to Schindler in Schindler's List ... (yes, I realize not the best reference source), as Schindler is spraying down the prisoners in the train cars with water, "you're just giving them hope."
This is very cruel, Oskar. You're giving them hope. You shouldn't do that. *That's* cruel!
Well it is cruel, except those keeping the game alive are too ignorant to realize how cruel it actually is at the moment although they will eventually find out, although at that point in time no doubt the same game will have them correspondingly continuing to point fingers at the straw boogeymen that the creators of the game have developed.
Either way, there isn't even a remote match between all of this polled and known "voter outrage" and disdain and these election results. Not even close!
People can twist it and appease themselves with nonsense that [this or that] AKA Rand Paul, is some monumental victory, but the reality is that this game is doing precisely what it was designed to do.
And I forget with whom I made the friendly wager that 100 would turnover for the GOP, it is actually 60-some. If the voters were truly that outraged, then there'd have been at least 300 incumbents gone.