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so basically a 16 seat majority?
Nevada is a demographically liberal state. I don't see it ever swinging back to the GOP for either Senate or the Electoral college tbh.Honestly, my favorite part of this midterm was re ed Rick Perry letting the cat out of the bag that they were still going forward with building that nuclear dump site in Nevada that er had been assuring voters wouldn't happen, which completely blindsided er. That self inflicted October Surprise cost Trump that senate seat in Nevada.
so basically a 16 seat majority?
we'll see
Ruth Buffalo, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa Arikara Nation, and from Fort Berthold Reservation, will be the only Native woman representing Fargo in the state legislature. (ND27-Fargo)
She beat Randy Boehning, the guy who wrote the 2013 voter ID law that required Native Americans living on reservations in ND to have street addresses to vote.
The Blue Wave that Everyone Missed: Democrats Had a Huge Win in the Midterms — But We're Only Realizing It Now
Many Democrats were disappointed Tuesday night. But that reaction now looks premature.
The much-predicted blue wave actually did come in this week in a big way — even if few observers noticed at first
FiveThirtyEight projects that Democrats will win a net gain of 37 seats in the house.
That not only gives them control but represents a monumental turnaround — which is particularly impressive considering the GOP's extensive gerrymandering of the country.
"The fact is, this week more Americans chose Democrats than Trump.
Just like they did in 2016."
"This blue wave in the House was historic. And I don't mean 'historic' as like a debatable adjective. I literally mean 'historic,' in the sense of history."
He noted (using a lower projection of 35 House seats gained) that this was the greatest wave election in four decades for the Democrats.
The only other time the party won such a big night was during President Richard Nixon's most scandalous years.
"There was a moment, around 10:30pm EST on Tuesday night when I thought GOP was gonna pick up SIX senate seats," said MSNBC's Chris Hayes. "They mayyyy end up with only a net gain of ONE." (FiveThirtyEight is projecting a GOP gain in the Senate of 2 seats.)
Democratic gains at the state-level were extremely impressive.
"You’ve probably heard that over the eight years Barack Obama was president, Democrats lost a net of almost a thousand seats in state legislatures," Waldman wrote. "Which is bad, but last night
Democrats gained about 300 seats, so they’re well on their way to reversing those losses."
The DLCC, in fact, reported that it had flipped 350 state legislature seats by Wednesday morning — and it may end up closer to 400.
Democrats have flipped seven governorships in their direction,
while Republicans flipped none.
"So in terms of the message voters sent, 2018 was unquestionably on par with other midterm waves like 1994, 2006 and 2010. You can see the results wherever you look."
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...y-realizing-it
It’s a shame that milenials, blacks and hispanics took this long to realize that midterm elections are actually important.
60% of voters say that Trash got them to the polls, 40% against, 20% for.
Trash said he wasn't on the ballot and they the election was about him.
Voters to Trash:
#ItAintOva!!
David Dennison BIG MAD right about now. Floriduh bout to have a chocolate Governor!
would love to see a Redo after him firing Sessions and putting a guy that is under FBI investigation to take his place.Can’t believe the ing president is throwing a temper tantrum on twitter asking for a ing redo
Gillum has virtually no shot. He's too far behind for that type of comeback. Nelson is the only real one with any sort of shot.
David Dennison BIG MAD right about now. Floriduh bout to have a chocolate Governor!
Imo if Nelson closes a 12.5k gap through a recount it means there was a systemic error in how votes were counted and depending on what that was Gillum would also have a chance.
I'm all for a recount - not so much because of Gillum/Nelson possibly winning -
but because the chances increase that if there was Repub ery going on - and I am pretty sure there was -
that this might uncover more corruption.
Why do you suppose repukes are so pissed at recounts?
Because they know they ed around with the election and are mad that their corruption might be exposed.
Gillum’s race might be the more important one. If Florida has a Democratic governor it means no more gerrymandering when they redistrict in 2021 and it means there won’t be voter suppression in Southeast Florida anymore. Probably becomes a lean blue state without 5 hour lines to vote in Broward and Miami-Dade County.
The Republican ery in FL goes on in more subtle ways (5 hour lines at the polls in inner city Miami, ridiculous laws that make it impossible for felons to vote after they’re out of jail, precincts that don’t have enough voting booths, a butterfly ballot, etc). I would be seriously surprised if there was anything like rigged voting machines that got uncovered through a recount.
One big takeaway from the midterms: It’s possible, perhaps even likely, that
the next Democratic presidential candidate could win the popular vote by 10% and still lose in the electoral college.
(Democrats have a 12.5-pt lead in the popular vote in all contested senate races and have lost 4 seats.)
+ Senate popular vote:Democrats: 40,558,262 (55.4%)https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11...ouse-of-cards/
Republicans: 31,490,026 votes (43.0%)
Well damn, Sinema grows her lead to almost 30k.
Can we call this already.
A lot of the votes counted today were from counties where McSally was supposed to do well so the fact Sinema’s lead grew is telling. I think it’ll be a few more days before McSally concedes.
Source? I thought it was only Maricopa and Pima that still had votes to count, aside from the <10,000 that needed signatures updated.
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