Editor’s Note: The following piece was submitted by BFA volunteer Tim Inwood on October 24. Pressing election-related news prevented it from being published earlier, but it is certainly impressive to see how clear Inwood’s crystal ball was. As you read the following, consider this election night quote from Florida Senator-elect Marco Rubio: “We make a grave mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican Party. What they are is a second chance, a second chance for Republicans to be what they said they were going to be, not so long ago.”

by Tim Inwood

As I am writing this in October, I will admit that attempts at sooth saying can be rather dangerous, but in this case I am feeling pretty safe in saying the November elections will have been a bloodbath for our Democrat friends in Congress, as well as in the various states’ races across the fruited plain.

Those state house races and governorships will be very important as the states will be redistricting following this past year’s census. Those who control those statehouses will redraw their district lines and that will be felt for the next decade. As I frequently remind readers, elections matter and this election’s ramifications will be felt for some time to come.

However our real focus today is what has happened to those who sit on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., and the wave that has carried many of them back into their home districts into a stinging early retirement.