So we picked up 37 House seats, 7 governors, and 300 state legislative seats.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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This was Gettysburg for the guys and gals in blue. 11/3/20 will be our Appomattox.

[manor321]

1. Not quite all of those races are settled yet

[NewsCenter28]

3. 37 seats is massive

Better than 2006, which I wasn't expecting! 7 govs rock too!

[California_Republic]

2. Thanks for the state legislature results!

[California_Republic]

4. Texas

Democrats exceeded expectations by flipping 12 seats in the Texas House in the Dallas, Houston and Austin areas. While not enough to claim a majority, they did narrow the GOP’s control of the chamber and could wield considerable influence in selecting the next House Speaker. T

[LAS14]

36. How can a minority, no matter how big, influence the choice of speaker? nt

[C_U_L8R]

5. The Trumps are clearly running scared

And true-to-form, they are bound to make some big mistakes. It's the beginning of the end for them.

[Awsi Dooger]

6. We needed both Floridas and one more senate

I would have been satisfied at that.

Instead it still feels like a loss, partially because I frequent some Miami forums and the right wingers are predictably crowing, basically ridiculing the notion that Gillum could be elected in this state.

I understand the inevitability of that type of thing, in such a bottom line business.

[Celerity]

14. Sinema may still win in AZ, over half a million votes uncounted

last time I checked. All our losses in the Senate
flipped races were very predictable. Same for TN. They all ran poor campaigns and they lost support amongst the base by casting some really bad votes or, in Bredesen's case, foolishly saying he would vote for Kavanaugh. Tester's win was the exception. He ran a decent campaign, and Trump's attacking him helped shore up support from his base.

[NewJeffCT]

24. are the uncounted votes in AZ

in primarily blue districts?

[Celerity]

25. Not sure, probably a mixture.

[sweetloukillbot]

28. Likely mostly blue areas

The Republicans are suing to stop counting some of them, that's a tell. Whether they succeed in stopping the count is another story...

[Celerity]

31. Pardon my cursing, but FUCK the vote-supressing Republicans at every

level. Georgia, probably the worst this election, has multiple people, starting with Kemp himself, who need to go to prison after a fair trial.

This rot needs to be fixed, along with gerrymandering, and then the right wing/white wing scum will eventually be crushed by demographics.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. I have met Bill Nelson

That was a personal loss. I lived in FL for most of my life. Another reason to never return.

[RHMerriman]

7. May come faster than that...

Trump could pull a Palin, resign, and get on his personal jet to Moscow.

[Thunderbeast]

9. What makes you think he wouldn't steal Air Force One?

[Celerity]

16. Pretty sure if he resigned, then tried to force his way onto

Air Force 1, he would be arrested, and if he violently resisted with armed force via private guards, he would
be shot.

[not_the_one]

21. Then let's hope he tries that!

You know, the vindictive turd that he is, he would want to give all the electronics on AF1 to Vlad, his BFF.

Realistically, he probably has his personal jet sitting with a full tank, just in case.

I would guess he would head to Saudi Arabia. Putin would kill him in a heartbeat and not think twice. And I bet turdface HATES that Putin has so much power over him....

Better yet, maybe he SHOULD go to Moscow, so Putin make him his bitch for real.

[RHMerriman]

39. Yep.

Yep. Nixon got Marine One off the White House lawn as a courtesy, but he wasn't fleeing overseas.

[Niagara]

8. K&R!

Awesome!!

[Cha]

10. KR!!

[Ezior]

11. Also, Democratic (& -Aligned) candidates won at least 23 senate seats out of the 35 up for election

Maybe even 24 or 25.
That's 65%-70% of the senate seats up for election this year.

Reps only won 10-12. Yeah, they did better than 6 years ago. But they didn't really have great success TBH.

[malaise]

12. Yep - this was a

Bluenami

Check out Rachel's first section

https://m.

[Midwestern Democrat]

13. I'm very happy with the election results Tuesday night - and I have been anything but a "sunshine

pumper" for the last 8 years. After 2010, I thought there was a real possibility that we might not see a Democratic House for 20 years or more - so the importance of winning the House back cannot be overstated. As far as the Senate goes, we all knew this was a brutal map and I wasn't shocked at all by any of the four Senate seats we lost - anyone who thought Heitkamp and McCaskill were going to win was delusional; I never really believed Donnelly was going to win either - like McCaskill, he only won in 2012 due to GOP self-destruction; and Nelson's re-election looked shaky all year.

[In It to Win It]

15. It's not enough! I want another 600 seats by 2020. #Goals

[mcar]

17. +1000!

[Maeve]

18. Yesterday I was feeling bummed out

But I was also exhausted from a loooong day at the polls (we had over 50% voter turnout...in a midterm! Not so happy with the results, tho--I'm in Ohio)

But now I feel the "Blue Wave" was over-hyped as to what it could accomplish and realize that missing unreachable goals doesn't turn a major win into a defeat--we freakin' WON so much more than we lost!

Yeah, there is still a slog and many battles yet to fight (I like your Civil War analogy, btw). Let's not lose heart.

[In It to Win It]

20. Same! I'm in Florida. We were hit with a double whammy.

[sweetloukillbot]

30. FLorida was a gut punch that sucked the air out of the room

Then Beto narrowly losing...
But yeah, this was a big f'n deal.

[Hortensis]

22. We did that in large part by gaining the suburbs!

And we now have apparently 98/possibly 99 women members in the house, which of course is something of a sexual revolution all by itself and will have a liberalizing influence since regardless of party women's coefficient of assholism averages somewhat lower.

The Republicans lost the suburban vote in repudiation of the corruption and extremism that's taken control. The interests of right wing plutocrats are currently predominantly being supported by aging, rural, white supremacist, male conservatives -- who suspect but don't want to believe it's true -- and of course the agents they currently still have holding many seats in our legislatures and judiciaries.

[ZZenith]

34. Coefficient of assholism!

I’d like to steal that from you if you don’t mind.

[Hortensis]

35. :) Honored. Just wield it responsibly.

[Blue_true]

23. Isn't there some still unresolved House races?

Can we get to 40 and above?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

29. Good question!

[bronxiteforever]

26. Kick and recommend. I love this!!!!!

[KPN]

27. BOOM! And that's just so far. There will be a few more as final counts come in.

On to 2020!

[Doodley]

32. My wife says there is no wave. Then she calls me an asshole for posting this.

[Wintryjade]

33. And we have one in Az, two in Fl, and one in Georgia being challenged.

[LAS14]

37. Where do you get 37? NYT shows 30. Don't get me wrong! I hope you're right!!!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-elections.html?module=inline

[scheming daemons]

38. Leading in 7 races that haven't been called yet.

[workinclasszero]

40. Blue wave continues 2020!

[Johnny2X2X]

41. Biggest Blue Wave since Nixon

This was massive and historic. I’m angry the media has been downplaying it for 2-1/2 days.