By Rick Moore

Remember Twitter on the night of January 19, 2010 blasting out the following tweets: "If you like the Scott Brown wave, wait for the people's Tsunami in November 2010."? Well, it's landfall! November 2, 2010 will go down in history with Barack Obama losing more House Seats than any other president since FDR lost 71 seats in the House and 6 in the Senate during the 1938 midterms. Roosevelt made a grave mistake during his second term in office by attacking the conservatives when his domestic agenda came to a screeching halt.

FDR campaigned throughout the Democrat primaries in an effort to purge 8 conservatives from his party who were against his New Deal. However, things didn't quite go the way he planned. When the smoke cleared, seven of the eight conservatives were victorious and the conservative coalition would remain a potent political force for the next 30 years.

We fast forward to 2010 and find yet another liberal who decides to attack conservatism during the midterms. President Obama even goes as far to tell Republicans to "go to the back of the bus." Well, when the dust settled 63 seats in the U.S. House, 6 seats in the U.S. Senate, 11 governorships (net 8), 10 state houses, and 4 state senates switched control to Republican in what the president admitted to as a "shellacking." According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the 2010 state legislative election swing of 632 seats to the Republicans was the fourth largest gain by one party over the other, behind the elections of 1922, 1958, and 1938.

In addition, Republicans now control the reins for the next decade as the GOP massages and controls redistricting in 196 districts, while Democrats control only 49 congressional districts. With each of the ten states that lose seats in the House being controlled by the Democrats and five of the eight states gaining seats leaning Republican (Texas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Utah), the Republicans will control the House until at least 2020. No more Democrat gerrymandering.

While Oklahoma will not lose a congressional seat as we did in the last reapportionment process, we certainly won't gain a seat either as our population increased 8.7 percent in the past decade from 3,450,654 to 3,751,351. Most of the growth occurred in the urban areas while the rural areas, mainly in the western portion of the state, had a decrease in population.

Democrats have control of the U.S. Senate by a slim margin of 51 seats, but in 2012 the Grand Old Party will have an excellent opportunity of capturing this chamber as well when 21 Democrats and two independents allied with the Democrats face re-election.

Oklahoma may not have a U.S. Senator or Governor race at the top of the ticket in 2012, but look for presidential candidates to be stopping in Oklahoma, possibly as early as the ORP State Convention on May 6 & 7. There will be at least two items of business: (1) Matt Pinnell running for reelection as ORP Chairman. (2) An addendum to the Rules of the Oklahoma Republican Party will be presented which is intended to place teeth in our platform. The gist of the rule would prevent any candidate who does not adhere to the platform from receiving funds from the Oklahoma Republican Party. In addition, the candidate could receive a vote of no confidence from the Oklahoma Republican Party.

The Oklahoma Republican Party's target area for the 2012 election cycle will be the Second Congressional District, more specifically, Muskogee County and south through what is affectionately known as Little Dixie. This area is the Democrat's last stronghold in Oklahoma. When Little Dixie falls, the Oklahoma Democrat Party will be dead for all intents and purposes. For our readers living in the Second District we ask that you help the Republican Party by taking responsibility for the voters living on your block. We also ask that you help your county chair update Voter Vault with any information you have about voters living in your area.

No matter how insignificant you think this information may be, at the end of the day it may be the one gold nugget needed for victory. If you live out of the Second District, donations may be made online to okgop.com as well helping with campaign blitzes throughout the year.

Thanks to Chairman Matt Pinnell, Oklahoma will have close ties to the RNC once again. As you know, Wisconsin State Chairman Reince Priebus won the RNC Chairman election on the seventh ballot. But, did you know that Pinnell seconded Priebus' nomination for Chairman? Priebus has close ties with Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Marco Rubio as well. Priebus resides within Congressman Ryan's district and Ryan was making phone calls on behalf of Priebus for RNC Chairman. Ryan also has ties to Oklahoma as his wife, Janna Little Ryan, is an Oklahoma native. They have been known to visit Oklahoma during deer season as Ryan is an avid deer hunter. Priebus and Rubio were both classmates at the University of Miami School of Law. Let's all get behind the new young RNC Chairman who ousted Russ Feingold.

We're off to a great start: sweeping every statewide office, increasing majorities in both the State House and Senate, and we finally evicted the Dems from the Governor's Mansion! See you on the campaign trail.