2012 Election Day Plus One - The Aftermath

Predictably, a big day for Utah GOP incumbents

The final 2012 General Election results are tallied, WCF readers.  Click the link below for Weber County Clerk Ricky Hatch's post-election tally sheet for those races which appeared on Weber County ballots:

• Weber County 2012 Election Results

The Standard is all over the post-election coverage; so we provide these selected stories, drilling down on the election aftermath.  Predictably, yesterday was a big day for GOP incumbents:

• GOP sweeps top ticket races in Utah
• Hatch wins race for seventh and final term in Senate
• Bishop easily wins sixth term in Congress
• Swallow defeats Weber's Dee to replace Shurtleff 
• Bell captures vacant Weber County Commission seat  
• Incumbents prevail in Ogden School Board election 

In the single surprise of the evening, it looks like GOP rising star Mia Love, who'd been leading in the polls through the pre-election runup, got edged out in the 4th District Congressional race by incumbent Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson:

• Matheson edges Love in close race

The Standard also provides these stories concerning the important national races, for those GOP readers who may be living under a rock:

• Obama wins re-election  
• No surprise: Romney wins bid in Utah
  Dems make early gains in U.S. Senate 

As an added bonus, here's a cranky graphic sent by one of our Libertarian friends:

Ron Paul sez what's already obvious

That's it, folks. So who'd like to throw in their own 2¢, now that the 2012 Dog&Pony Show is over?