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.
In Kentucky, the massive backlash against pension reform did not materialize - GOP maintains supermajority in both state legislative chambers.
FROM FREEPER willk:
First midterm election for new President:
Clinton 1994
House -54
Senate -8
Obama 2010
House -63
Senate -6
Trump 2018
House -30 (roughly)
Senate +4 or +5”
Obama and Clinton didn’t have to deal with 40 anti-Trumpers retiring. Otherwise Trump would have probably maintained the house too.
Dj, the House is gonna be more than a couple. Looks more like 230 D or so.
By God if we can 56 in the Senate though!!!
My Senate district has a similar de-evolution a few election cycles back, going from a centrist Lipinski type Democrat (the solidly pro-life and anti-illegal alien Ed Maloney) to a worthless Mike Madigan yes-man (Bill Cunningham). Of course, Cunningham won his first Senate race in 2012 by CLAIMING to be a Lipinski-type RAT (ran campaign ads with cute family photo ops walking out of church services claiming to be "Your average Catholic dad") and then promptly voted to legalize gay marriage shortly after being sworn in, and went full moonbat after that.
Of course, Maloney himself was a downgrade from what we had in the late 90s/early 2000s: a Peter Fitzgerald type suburban Republican (Patrick O'Malley). Then O'Malley retired to run for Governor in 2002, and the RATs redrew the district to be majority RAT. Since the district was still 80% suburban, they ran "conservative Democrat" Maloney.
It just shows you the continued leftward creep of Illinois overall. Now even the collar countries have fallen to marxist RAT control. Look who Randy Hultgren just lost to, in what USED to be Dennis Hastert's district. I think we might only be left with a handful of Republicans way downstate when the dust settles.
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.