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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Just got home from my long 16 hour day working the election, and after looking at the preliminary numbers, as I can finally drink a cold beer, I have to say that my sense of what I am going to wake up to in the morning is not particularly good. The general slant on the numbers appears to be leaning somewhat favorably in the Republican direction.
Frankly, I’m just too tired to put myself through this right now. I’m not sure where my psychological state of mind will be if this all ends up as a big fucking dud. I hope I’m wrong, and tomorrow morning it’s all sunshine and rainbows. I’ll leaving this evening to all those with more gumption than I possess right now to sit and wait for these numbers to come in.
Good night. And may The Flying Spaghetti Monster help us all if this thing turns to shit tonight.
Peace.
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The results panned out largely as I was expecting. A 9% D preference in voting under different circumstances would have been a complete hiding of the the GOP in the House. Gerrymandering is what it is. A reminder that the election results of 2010 have long-lasting consequences. The Senate was never the Dems for the taking. If this had been a good year, the GOP would have truly run the table and be at nearly 60 seats given the Senate map. Instead, the gains were within the margin of error given an unpopular president. The House gains are also within the margin of error given the nature of gerrymandering. This was a good year. Had things been fairer, it would have been a great year. 2020 starts now. Let’s be ready. I have one parent willing to at least try to live long enough to see Dolt 45 dethroned. Don’t disappoint.
Activate exfil plans.
This is a country founded on white supremacy. Period. Nazi judges and Nazi Governors are in charge of you now.
Get out. This country is lost. The guns will mean endless death.
D +10 national margin and yet the house pickup is ~50 seats. Should have been more
Also came razor close at wiping out a lot of republican incumbents in recently de-gerrymandered PA but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Wednesday morning looks like dems underperformed expectations. Final tally is about +7%, rather than the +8% or +9% we were hoping for, which cost us a few senate seats. Insurgent candidates underperformed while “the establishment” won their races.
Dems won the house so we achieved the bare minimum we need to save the country. Trumpists in the hinterlands came out in support of American Fascism. 2020 looks like a dangerous time.
The problem is Fox, and the cult-mentality conditioning of the GOP.
But at least Dana Rohrabacher lost. Darrell Issa too. And they said it couldn’t be done!
With these senate losses, we’re now locked into, at best, a stalemate with blood-and-soil rightists for the foreseeable future.
Please correct me if you think I’m wrong.
What I think died last night:
Somebody have a look at these and comment on where dems can get the necessary senate seats in the next couple election cycles, especially if its a Dem president wins in 2020:
https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2020
colorado
arizona
georgia
iowa
maine
North carolina
Texas
https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2022
Wisconsin
Penn
NC
Iowa
GA
Florida
Out of all those I would think Dems might win 3 or 4, and are sure to lose a few they have to defend (Alabama?!)