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Yeah, I know this midterm was an uphill battle given the historical antecedents, and put me in the camp that gives Paul Ryan and a buttload of GOP(e) types a great deal of "credit" for flipping the house, but the amount and intensity of advertising (both paid-for and in-kind thanks to an absolutely owned media) from the Dems was relentless. They spent leftist billionaires' money like drunken bolsheviks. Around here it was absolutely seamless and hugely effective in - if I may be blunt - brainwashing those who shouldn't vote but do it anyway. In the best times, it's hard to fight people who not only buy ink by the bucketful, but whose family also owns the ink factory.

Were it not for Donald Trump working his ass off (as usual), there really would have been a blue wave that would have had people here on FR jumping out of buildings rather than venting this AM. He and a handful of others kept this from being worse than it is (and it IS bad enough, I know).

Ryan, some other ex- (or soon to be ex-) congressmen, a number of RNC/NRCC hacks, about every so-called "Republican strategist" enabled by our ministry of propaganda (most irritatingly by our "friends" under the Murdoch family umbrella), a high percentage of "conservative" LDS "luminaries," etc did this nation no favors over the last two years, and they po'-mouthed this midterm right up to and including the end. With friends like these, our enemies are always have a leg up.

Mr. niteowl77