Gillum about to lose in Florida.. He should have never campaigned with Hilary. Went less progressive as the republicans went more racists... smh..
An amazing statement from a Republican: (paraphrasing) The expanding majority in the Senate more important than losing the House because Republicans don't have a legislative agenda anyway, only worried about court stacking.
Yep. The Democrats need to basically exile Clinton from anything they do. Focus on healthcare. Good news is, Democrats have won or are winning most gubernatorial races. That one sucks though considering the context around it.
And 538 now saying it's 100% certain. Grossman at 538 with interesting comment: "The growing or solidifying city-rural divide is an important story of the night. We still have a lot to learn about the reasons for this geographic polarization. One reason might be that the same factors that affect individual voting (like race and education level) also affect everyone in a community. For example, a college educated white person in a low education area might have social networks full of Trump supporters. In addition to their friends, people may also may be affected by their broader community. For example, even people without a college degree living in a college town might come to think of themselves as part of an educated diverse area. Geographic partisan enclaves may thus be hard to reverse, once an area comes to seen by its own residents as living in a culturally red or blue state."
Only race still important to me is Steve King. It would be a great moral victory for America to see him get taken out.
Is there a site that's tracking the overall governor map? NM: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-governor-elections.html
Just a friendly reminder that South and North Dakota get FOUR Senators. Same number Texas and California get. Harris county has about the same population of one of those two states alone.
I'm off to bed. My takeaway from this: 2008 was a wave election. For a wave election you need a lot of the traditional voters of a particular party to turn, and take most of the middle. Combine that with an depression that hurts the incumbent, and there you go. A lot of republicans turned on Bush W after 2004, and the financial crash sealed it. Trumps' method of winning by doubling and tripling down on the base, unthinkable a few years ago, worked in 16 and worked a bit tonight in gaining senate seats. Republicans' enthusiasm for Donald is a wave-breaking wall.
Trump basically won Florida by taking over that state. DeSantis not only held Trump's pocket, Trump's campaign people took over the campaign in the closing stretch. Where the narrative was Gillum might carry Nelson to a win, the opposite happened. The general wisdom was that Scott was a good candidate that might lose because DeSantis sucked so much and it turns out that Nelson, the bad candidate, loses because DeSantis let Trump carry them.
For the vast majority of people, it will be the same. There are those (DACA kids) whose lives are literally and figuratively dependent on who control what.
Can we all agree at least that it'll be great to not watch political ads, get political calls/texts, and not get your mailbox full of junk political letters?
