Maxine Waters will be the chair of the House Finance Committee, Mwah!

1 minute ago, Vee said:

NBC projects we take the House.

 

I honestly don't care about the superstar races; those folks (like Beto) will be back, and they ran very tough races which bode well for those states in future. I care about the House. That's victory. That's what it looks like. It's grueling and it's tough and it's incremental and it saves our fùcking country. That's the lesson I learned in the 2000s.

 

I found all the overhype about Beto O'Rourke a bit silly, to the point where I eventually began to see him as a vanity project, but he did way, way better than I expected, and it looks like he may have helped flip 2 House seats and also a number of seats in the Texas legislature, which the Democrats desperately needed. I imagine he has a very bright future ahead of him after tonight. 

you know, IMPO, it is so much more than giving us a chance. the people would have voted for checks and balances and winning the House achieves that. that stopgap will now be there, and no more rubber stamps for Trump in that chamber. 

3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

I found all the overhype about Beto O'Rourke a bit silly, to the point where I eventually began to see him as a vanity project, but he did way, way better than I expected, and it looks like he may have helped flip 2 House seats and also a number of seats in the Texas legislature, which the Democrats desperately needed. I imagine he has a very bright future ahead of him after tonight. 

He was all over the place in Texas campaigning and he went to cities that had a majority of latino voters. I thought he was going to pull it off. 

 

Ugh to six more years of Ted Cruz.......

He came very close. And I think he'll run in 2020, and he sets a huge precedent for Texas - and Abrams in Georgia, though.

Colin Allred beat Pete Sessions in Texas.

5 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

He was all over the place in Texas campaigning and he went to cities that had a majority of latino voters. I thought he was going to pull it off. 

 

Ugh to six more years of Ted Cruz.......

I honestly don't see what the voters see in that cockroach. his own party hates his guts, and so does his own daughter.

NYT is projecting Democrats win a ~9% margin in the House popular vote. The last time we saw a margin like that was 08, amidst a collapsing economy and a loathed war.

Unemployment is 3.7% right now. America isn't at war. A margin this big is nuts — a pure repudiation of Trump.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 7, 2018

31 minutes ago, Daphne said:

The last Kansas Democratic governor was Kathleen Sebelius.  She took a seat in Obama's Cabinet and was replaced by Sam Brownback 😒

 

I bet those were some very dark days in Kansas.

8 minutes ago, Roman said:

I honestly don't see what the voters see in that cockroach. his own party hates his guts, and so does his own daughter.

I don't know how he lost. He won the Dallas area, Austin, San Antonio and was ahead in Houston. Cruz won most of the small cities. I still don't know how that adds up to win for him.....sigh.....

20 minutes ago, Roman said:

you know, IMPO, it is so much more than giving us a chance. the people would have voted for checks and balances and winning the House achieves that. that stopgap will now be there, and no more rubber stamps for Trump in that chamber. 

I see your point, but I meant a chance to stop the creeping fascism.  I understand that not everyone thinks that's what's happening, of course.  Beyond that I am very thankful to have  a check on Trump when it comes to day to day business.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

North Carolina voters have rejected the court-packing attempt by the state legislature.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2018-11-06/the-latest-officials-ballot-troubles-at-some-nc-polls

 

Final results aren't in but in early totals NC voters were also supporting the Democrat running to defeat a Republican supreme court justice. Her name is Anita Earls - she is a big foe of the piece of [!@#$%^&*] legislature. 

 

Out of the 6 amendments that were on the NC ballot these two were considered the most "dangerous" ones. I saw/heard local advertisements that were criticizing these two possible amendments in particular, and there were even Republicans that were against them.

 

Some of the other six amendments actually didn't sound bad, and I'm not surprised that it looks like NC residents were split on how they voted for the six amendments.   (Though, I did think that more people would oppose the voter ID one) . It looks like the majority of people will end up supporting four of the amendments/opposing two. 

 

It does look like Anita will win, I believe she has been received favorably as a candidate in the state.

Edited November 7, 20187 yr by xtr

Democrats have taken control of US House.

It is a wave with some major gains in the House - but of course the media is scrambling to call it not that, as they always do with Dems. They attempt to handicap any Democratic victory, but thanks to (of all things) social media that's less possible now than it has been at any point in recent history.

 

 

I think with a lot of high hopes crashing for Democratic voters in places like Florida and with Beto, there is maybe a drastic underappreciation of how Democratic control of the House will change the course of this country. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very big deal.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) November 7, 2018

14 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

I don't know how he lost. He won the Dallas area, Austin, San Antonio and was ahead in Houston. Cruz won most of the small cities. I still don't know how that adds up to win for him.....sigh.....

he won big areas as you named but Rafael won small rural areas? I don't get that state. how did The Ewings vote?