Posted on 11/06/2018 8:01:19 AM PST by Lazamataz
It is my birthday today, so I get to post the live thread. :)
Some places to watch:
Politico SenateReal Clear Politics
McSally up by 12k votes. POS Arizona SOS site doesn’t show % of vote in that I can find.
yes, agree, that’s how power works in Senate and House-this let’s get rid of Rinos stuff just get you Dems in power
Is that the only good news in CA?
Man this state sucks so bad.
This election will be one for the books. Never has the GOP made such decisive Senate gains while losing the House (assuming they win by a couple seats — thanks to the cheating, illegal PA Demonrat Supreme Court theft). I’m thinking we try again to petition SCOTUS to restore the 2012-16 lines for 2020.
Here in TN, everything stayed status quo for the most part, as expected. We lost a single seat overall in the State House, 1 pro-tax RINO incumbent defeated in Knoxville. The Democrat Minority Leader who ran for Governor and lost badly to Dean, his seat went Republican. However, a rich Democrat family bought the seat of the outgoing Speaker Harwell. It means for the first time since 1974 that Nashville will not have a single GOP House member.
This should be an impetus to ruthlessly gerrymander the 10 Nashville seats, which Harwell largely protected for 2012. We should have at least 3 or 4 seats. The irony that a “Nashville Republican” won the Governorship when the whole city House delegation will be hostile isn’t lost.
I expect the Dems will target RINO Sen. Steve Dickerson in 2020, the last remaining Republican from Nashville. My district just went from a centrist Black Democrat (who was 1% more Conservative than Dickerson (!)) to a loon. Of the 5 Dem State Senators from 2017-18, 2 were nutters, 1 was semi-reasonable, and 2 were Centrists (with 1 proclaiming he was “really a Republican”), now with all 3 Black members being replaced, all 5 will be nutters.
Don’t commit seppuku just yet.
There’s work to do.
2020 is right around the corner.
Rope a Dope is now in effect.
But if they don’t vote with you on the agenda then who cares? Take my idiots Corker and Alexander. Oops, no more Corker tonight.
My Senate prediction MIGHT end up right.
By House? A 180.
Oh god, I forgot about Scott Walker. He’s up like A TINY amount with 99% in. Come on Wisconsin!
“The Dem House, if it does happen, is made of cards. No real base.”
Their base is the open borders crowd...which did somewhat better tonight than I could imagine. They’ve got a two part platform - single payer nationalized healthcare and open borders - and it seems those positions are far more acceptable, even desired, by a bigger portion of the electorate than logic or reason would dictate is possible.
It doesn’t give one a warm feeling in the stomach.
In Kentucky, the massive backlash against pension reform did not materialize - GOP maintains supermajority in both state legislative chambers.
And Taylor Swift can go back to writing sappy songs about unrequited love in Jr High.
I’ve known some radically conservative lesbians and one gay guy. Dude would show up to his door with a .38 behind his back for anyone. Made me look like a lib in comparison.
Mostly, gay dudes are wack libs. But I would bet lesbians break more 60/40.
Well, it is a win for the Dems in the House. They have control now.
But Trump has blunted massively what would normally have been a mid-term bloodbath -- under normal circumstances, let alone under the unprecedented assault he's had to endure!
What's more, Pelosi as House Speaker, while not ideal, does open opportunities, but only for someone as shrewd Donald J Trump.
I don't know what he thought tonight's results would be, but if anyone can turn shit into sugar, it our POTUS! Watch triangulation take on an entirely new dimension -- Trumpangulation.
probably won’t be a winner declared tonight. Walker ahead by only about 1500 votes with 97% counted. The loser can request a recount if less than 1% difference. It could be several weeks.
Rosendale now up 2.5k votes on Tester per Montana SOS site.
What a survivor! He’s constantly underestimated.
MT Secretary of State at 12:30 a.m. has Rosendale up by 2,500.
When will California finally experience the economic collapse as a result of their policies?
Cool. 57 seats would be more cool!
A small majority in the House isn’t a real win. They will be hampered.
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