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My two cents:

*Could have been better, could have been worse.

*Ok, RATS, you barely have the House. Now what?

*The Senate, OTOH, is going to become an even more productive judge confirming factory.

*The coronations for the true freaks like Gilliam, Abrams and O’Roarke were cancelled. That bodes VERY well, as any of them could have been “Obama 2.0” in 2020.

*Back to the House: This result isn’t that much worse than a very narrow GOP hold. With a narrow GOP hold you’re at the mercy of the NeverTrump RINO Cucks who The Don couldn’t go full nuclear on, but would have voted against The Don at every turn.

*In closing, I look at lifeforms: The illegals, the “not from here”s, the deadhead burnouts, the cat ladies, the Feminazis, the soy chugging Cuck fags, etc., etc., etc. It’s a lost cause. And there is only one solution.

I tend to agree with many of these points-—not knowing the final senate results in AZ, NV or MT.

*I’ve never seen anything like this. Rs take key senate races in FL, IN, TN, TX, MO, ND, and win gov races in AZ, TX, FL, GA, OH, MD, and a couple of NE states, but lose about 30 House seats.

*I have never, ever seen a national network “call” a House race while there were still over 200 congressional races still counting-—especially when some of them, like MacArthur in NJ (last I heard) had won. Some of these were races we expected to lose. It borders on election tampering a la the early Gore call in FL in 2001.

*The message is . . . there is no message. Running with Trump really helped many (Kemp, Scott, DeSantis, Blackburn, Cramer, Hawley, Braun) but didn’t help others like Renacci, or (win or lose) McSally, Heller, or Rosendale. If any eked out a victory, the margin was way too close.

*Early ballot counting worked pretty well in FL and IA. It allowed us to calculate FL pretty close, and to see that in IA, there would be no flips and that Blum would be on the bubble. In AZ, it didn’t work so well. I’m told by Richard Baris that this is because the indies in the early/absentee vote broke heavily for Enema UNTIL the caravan became an issue, then it shifted heavily . . . but not heavily enough. FYI, I had internals from the AZ campaigns, and from the get-go, McSally’s group suspected they had a problem with indies and weighted their polls a full seven point indie margin for Enema! Ducey, on the other hand, did not have that.

I would say that in the future, a combination of ballot counting AND a “good” pollster to assess the mood of the indies will be required. But did we do better than the establishment pollsters? Hell yes. By a mile. Thanks Ravi and SpeedyInTexas

*In FL, thank God for Hispanics, who in key counties like Miami-Dade gave Scott a much higher level of support than they gave Trump (just a guess, but I’d expect Trump would get that support next time).

*House members who ran away from Trump got clobbered-—Yoder, Curbelo, Comstock, Love. But several Trumpers lost too, including Jason Lewis. Pete Sessions claimed that one issue alone cost him his seat, health care. He said John McTurd’s “thumbs down” doomed him. I did not believe it at the time, but all year Richard Baris was harping on the health care failure as an issue. Many, many of the races were extremely close. Things easily could have gone the other way in FL27, for example.

*Outside of CA and NY, it still seems for the most part that voters do not want socialism close to home, but are ok with it in D.C. They rejected socialist governors like Gillum and Abrams and Garcia and Cordray. The results in WI are somewhat expected. Scott Walker has done wonders for Wisconsin, but in the process he has alienated key interest groups-—teachers, the people who did not get the Foxconn contract. It was just enough to keep him out.

*While I don’t think fraud cost us any specific race, the recurring voting issues MUST BE FIXED. Unfortunately, without the House to back him, I doubt Trump can now do anything about it. This brings me back to “lawlessness.”

When Trump first named Kris Kobach to head his vote fraud task force, several governors and secretaries of state refused to comply. Eventually, Trump and Kobach gave up and threw it to Congress, which did nothing. It is clear now that whatever the dislocations, Trump needed Jeff Sessions to enforce these investigations at the time.

Increasingly, rampant lawlessness is traceable back to Sessions’ inability or unwillingness to enforce the law against high profile people. Now, it may be too late.

We will definitely see an unending stream of demands from the whackadoodles for tax returns, papers, etc from the Administration. Impeachment of course, may be a “show” item but won’t get traction with the Trumpian senate. So we can expect absolutely nothing to get done outside of executive orders for two years.

Here is a question for you, though: “Who will have the most power in DC outside of Trump?” The answer, I think, is NOT Nancy Pelosi, but the weird fringe in her party (and I mean, even those who are more “conservative.”) Think about it: when the Rs held the Senate by a slim majority, who were the power brokers? John McTurd, Flakey, Corkscrewed, and Tom Collins. We have swept them out, one way or another. The power center in the Senate is FAR more “Trumpian” and conservative than two days ago.

But who in the House will now step into their party’s position of being able to hold up legislation and their agenda/ It could be the whackadoodles, the Maxine Waterses, the Adam Schiftys. But It could just as likely be whatever “centrists” are left who value their seats. Their demands could go a long way in stalling Congress-—because with only (as of this moment) a 10-seat lead, a mere handful of these people will have to be coddled or bribed.

Lots more to analyze. If you recall I said we’d hold the House by 5-15. I was off by 15. Not too bad, but the overall tilt was horrible. So far looks like I was right on in the Senate, with a net 4-7.