YAH, that article helps. I am so frustrated that we didn't take the Senate [concerned about the Supremes (poor RBG can never retire)] that I haven't really celebrated the House enough yet. Remember, I'm several hours behind the rest of you in taking in the evening's news. But it's beginning to dawn on me that Mueller is safe now and can come forward with whatever he has. So many crummy bills won't see the light of day. Even the National Nurse Act has hope again.
I hope this means that you and Susan sleep like milk-drunk babies tonight!!
Nope, too mad that DeWine won with lying dishonest ads that he KNEW were lies and played over and over anyway. Ohio is still caught tight in the claws of the Republicans. I'm sure the attack on women's rights won't take long.
I am disappointed by the loss of Democratic Senate incumbents, but actually taking the Senate was going to be very difficult due to the blue wave six years ago. The the large majority of Senate seats up for elections were held by Democrats. There were 10 Democratic incumbents in states Trump carried and I don't believe any Republican incumbents in states Clinton carried.
It's really too early to say, but it seems just possible that Diane Feinstein has a real fight on her hands for Senate. But the really big counties had yet to weigh in when I last looked. Some precincts, but not many.
I was just popping by to say the same thing. LOL! It's the absentee ballots that might make the difference, since they only had to be postmarked by today. (To tell you the truth, that's an annoying rule...!)
I saw an article that explained the otherwise strange idea of a runoff. Georgia law requires the winner to have an absolute majority. At least in the governor's race there was a third candidate who may have taken enough votes to keep either candidate from winning outright. If so, there will be a runoff Dec. 4.
I'm excited about the Maine Senate flipping AND them getting a Democrat Governor (first woman Governor of Maine)! My daughter and son & DIL in Maine will be DELIGHTED!!!
I'm pleased about the NH House flipping to Blue, but I'm sad that a dear friend who was running as a Dem there didn't win.
The state's Constitution would be amended to state that a woman's right to an abortion is not protected in West Virginia, paving the way for the State Legislature to ban the procedure outright if the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Answer Votes Pct. For 295,536 51.7% Against 275,748 48.3
571,284 votes, 100% reporting (1,735 of 1,735 precincts)
Notes from California and elsewhere; it is estimated that there are 30 Democratic pickups in the House exclusive of California, so total might be 32-33.
California precincts partially reporting = 92.9%. Generally speaking, the major California state offices were won 60/40; GOP was again wiped out. There are a couple of non-partisan races that are too close to call. Dianne Feinstein appears to have been re-elected US Senator about 54/46 over her Dem. challenger. In most cases the voters agreed with me on the [eleven] propositions. There are two US representative races that are too close to call. With all precincts partially reporting, it is Janz/Nunes 44/56 [rats!].
Arizona, Florida, and Montana US Senate races too close to call. Abrams not conceding Georgia governor. Voters in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah approve Medicaid expansion.
Suburbs swung decisively to Dems.[Click] No single clear winning message has revealed itself, which obscures the path to the Presidency in 2020.
Dems flip governorships in Wisconsin, Kansas, Nevada, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico and Maine. Georgia remains in doubt.
Jake Tapper on CNN: “If [Trump] thinks that the media is annoying, wait till he meets a Democratic House that has subpoena power and actually has the legal ability to force them to turn over documents. We’re going to look like nothing compared to that. He is going to find an opposition that he has never really encountered before.”
Ned Lamont (D) will be the next governor of Connecticut, the Hartford Courant reports.
“Maine Democrats have gained control of the state’s Legislature, growing their majority in the House of Representatives and recapturing a decisive majority in the state Senate,” the Portland Press Herald reports.
“The victories for Democrats Tuesday mark the first time in six years that one party has gained control of all three branches of state government, with the historic win by Janet Mills, who became the state’s first woman to be elected governor in a decisive victory over Republican businessman Shawn Moody.”
"Worse, the cobbled-together coalition of states that let Trump squeak to his Electoral College win disappeared — and showed signs of collapsing altogether by 2020.
This is not what you’ll hear from a president who routinely, and falsely, claims his Electoral College win was historically large. He won 306 electoral votes in 2016 by winning stunning, narrow victories in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with a total of 36 electoral votes. That’s exactly the 36 votes he won over and above the 270 he needed to win.
All three states elected Democratic governors Tuesday, two of them handily. (Tony Evers squeaked to a win over Republican incumbent Scott Walker in Wisconsin, as expected). All three re-elected Democratic senators.
Ohio, an industrial state that Trump won big, easily re-elected a Democratic senator and elected a GOP governor, in a mild upset, who’s much closer, ideologically and temperamentally, to outgoing Gov. John Kasich, who openly loathes Trump. Pennsylvania flipped three suburban House seats to Democrats."
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They're wrong about DeWine though. He is absolutely a trump boot-licker.
Jeff Sessions Resigns as Attorney General Tester Wins In Montana Trump Threatens Democrats If They Pursue Investigations [and once again indicates a)he has something big to hide, and b)has no idea how the government works]
Donald Trump’s unchecked hold on power has come to an abrupt end, and if his predecessors are any guide, it won’t return any time soon. There will be no more Trump tax cuts for big businesses, and no slashing Trump cuts to social security or healthcare. Still, there will be more Trump judges and possibly more US supreme court nominees.
There were also some disturbing signs about just how toxic and mindless a core segment of the Republican voting base has become.One such sign came in Nevada, where The Hill reports that Republican Dennis Hof was able to win a seat in the legislature. The problem? Hof died roughly a month ago. What’s more, Hof was hardly a paragon of so-called conservative “family values,” as he owned seven brothels and died after a weekend of heavy partying. He was 72.
That’s right, GOP voters elected a dead pimp to state government.
Ah, he was the one. I mistakenly thought he was running for U.S. Senate. Saw him on television bragging that evangelical voters loved him. After all, he was a successful businessman, so clearly not in politics for the money. Guess he was right. His voter base loved him. :P
Here in Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott, a moderate Republican, won re-election. The good news is that the Vermont House picked up 12 seats so the Legislature is now veto-proof! This is significant because there were several key bills passed by the Legislature this past session which Scott vetoed. Onward!!
I just saw that Trump is trying to deep-six the Mueller investigation. "Wednesday Morning Massacre." I remain confident that Mueller laid plans to deal with exactly such a possibility; if anyone knows how, it would be him. The legal chowderheads who work for Trump would not be expected to have a clue about how such things could be done.
The Beto link is a note of wisdom as balance for our hope. Both wisdom and hope are needed, going forward. Onward! That said, my "hope" would be Bernie/Beto 2020. I will have to mull my sense of "wisdom." That could take awhile.
I wonder if one of the lady (hmmmm... dating myself) governors might attract interest in 2020; I liked Jennifer Granholm, but she was born in Canada. And I still like Eric Garcetti.
Every [US] House seat was up for election. For Democrats to regain control, they needed to flip 23 seats held by the Republican majority. The Democrats have gained 28 seats. There are 15 races where a winner has yet to be called.
Well, Wednesday was interesting. I watched Election returns until first light, slept 'til nearly noon, then put the last of the gardens to bed for Winter and planted our Spring bulbs. It was a nearly perfect sort of day, except that when I came in to take a shower I found a dog tick on my side. Fortunately it was walking along and not latched on. Caught the little bugger, and will keep its remains on ice for a month. But I believe all's well.
~ photo by Anton Gorlin
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/tonight-was-one-of-the-great-political-blowouts-of-modern-history
ReplyDeleteYAH, that article helps. I am so frustrated that we didn't take the Senate [concerned about the Supremes (poor RBG can never retire)] that I haven't really celebrated the House enough yet. Remember, I'm several hours behind the rest of you in taking in the evening's news. But it's beginning to dawn on me that Mueller is safe now and can come forward with whatever he has. So many crummy bills won't see the light of day. Even the National Nurse Act has hope again.
DeleteI hope this means that you and Susan sleep like milk-drunk babies tonight!!
Nope, too mad that DeWine won with lying dishonest ads that he KNEW were lies and played over and over anyway. Ohio is still caught tight in the claws of the Republicans. I'm sure the attack on women's rights won't take long.
DeleteYeah.
DeleteAt least we’re not aboard a runaway train anymore. Mueller will have protection, and everything else slows down.
I am disappointed by the loss of Democratic Senate incumbents, but actually taking the Senate was going to be very difficult due to the blue wave six years ago. The the large majority of Senate seats up for elections were held by Democrats. There were 10 Democratic incumbents in states Trump carried and I don't believe any Republican incumbents in states Clinton carried.
DeleteCat--I was hoping for a McGrath win, too. Carrigan lost, 57% to 42%.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Alan. Carrigan really has the right stuff. I hope he runs again.
DeleteI lied about signing off. In Nevada, Dems won both Governor and Senator.
ReplyDeleteIt's really too early to say, but it seems just possible that Diane Feinstein has a real fight on her hands for Senate. But the really big counties had yet to weigh in when I last looked. Some precincts, but not many.
DeleteGood news about Nevada. Hmmm... Wasn't that the senate race where the Republican candidate was the brothel owner?
DeleteDid you see the Georgia House district that is (R) 101,340 to (D) 101,283 with 100% reporting (just 57 votes difference!). 😯
ReplyDeleteThat must result in a runoff. Maybe the Governor race will be too. I hope so.
DeleteYeah, I saw that Abrams hasn't conceded, but Kemp got more than 50% of the vote. So how come it's in question? Is there a number they have to get to?
DeleteThere are substantial numbers of votes yet to be counted.
DeleteI was just popping by to say the same thing. LOL! It's the absentee ballots that might make the difference, since they only had to be postmarked by today. (To tell you the truth, that's an annoying rule...!)
DeleteI saw an article that explained the otherwise strange idea of a runoff. Georgia law requires the winner to have an absolute majority. At least in the governor's race there was a third candidate who may have taken enough votes to keep either candidate from winning outright. If so, there will be a runoff Dec. 4.
DeleteWalker loses Wisconsin governorship. Heitkamp and McKaskill lose their senate re-election bids.
ReplyDeleteAbrams not prepared to concede Georgia governorship. [Click]
Kyrsten Sinema vs. Martha McSally: Arizona Senate race too close to call [Click]
Most Of North Carolina GOP’s Power Grabbing Gambits Fail [Click]
“President Trump basically ran Mark Sanford out of congress. Democrat Joe Cunningham seems to have won his seat.” —talkingpointsmemo.com
2:07 AM: Remember the state legislatures …
Here is our 2 am roundup:
7 Chambers Flipped blue:
CO Senate
MN House
NH House
NH Senate
ME Senate
NY Senate
WA Senate (Nov 2017)
New supermajorities:
OR Senate
OR House
Broken supermajorities:
NC Senate
NC House
MI Senate
PA Senate
Sweet!!!
DeleteI'm excited about the Maine Senate flipping AND them getting a Democrat Governor (first woman Governor of Maine)! My daughter and son & DIL in Maine will be DELIGHTED!!!
I'm pleased about the NH House flipping to Blue, but I'm sad that a dear friend who was running as a Dem there didn't win.
Nevada has picked up a Dem Gov!
ReplyDeleteDems now have 218!!!
ReplyDelete26 pickups, mostly women.
Whoo Hoo!! CNN is declaring Wisconsin for Evers (D) !!!
ReplyDeleteAmendment 1No Right to Abortion
ReplyDeleteThe state's Constitution would be amended to state that a woman's right to an abortion is not protected in West Virginia, paving the way for the State Legislature to ban the procedure outright if the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Answer Votes Pct.
For 295,536 51.7%
Against 275,748 48.3
571,284 votes, 100% reporting (1,735 of 1,735 precincts)
Good heavens. But same and effective abortifacients are now readily available by mail.
DeleteNotes from California and elsewhere; it is estimated that there are 30 Democratic pickups in the House exclusive of California, so total might be 32-33.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia precincts partially reporting = 92.9%. Generally speaking, the major California state offices were won 60/40; GOP was again wiped out. There are a couple of non-partisan races that are too close to call. Dianne Feinstein appears to have been re-elected US Senator about 54/46 over her Dem. challenger. In most cases the voters agreed with me on the [eleven] propositions. There are two US representative races that are too close to call. With all precincts partially reporting, it is Janz/Nunes 44/56 [rats!].
Arizona, Florida, and Montana US Senate races too close to call. Abrams not conceding Georgia governor. Voters in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah approve Medicaid expansion.
Suburbs swung decisively to Dems.[Click] No single clear winning message has revealed itself, which obscures the path to the Presidency in 2020.
Dems flip governorships in Wisconsin, Kansas, Nevada, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico and Maine. Georgia remains in doubt.
Jake Tapper on CNN: “If [Trump] thinks that the media is annoying, wait till he meets a Democratic House that has subpoena power and actually has the legal ability to force them to turn over documents. We’re going to look like nothing compared to that. He is going to find an opposition that he has never really encountered before.”
And won't that be fun to watch? *chortle*
DeleteNed Lamont (D) will be the next governor of Connecticut, the Hartford Courant reports.
ReplyDelete“Maine Democrats have gained control of the state’s Legislature, growing their majority in the House of Representatives and recapturing a decisive majority in the state Senate,” the Portland Press Herald reports.
“The victories for Democrats Tuesday mark the first time in six years that one party has gained control of all three branches of state government, with the historic win by Janet Mills, who became the state’s first woman to be elected governor in a decisive victory over Republican businessman Shawn Moody.”
The Gauls really did embalm the severed heads of enemies [Click] Ancient stories verified.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/cnns-jake-tapper-doles-harsh-truth-bad-night-trump-going-get-worse/
ReplyDeletehttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-trump-lost-and-why-it-will-get-worse-2018-11-07?mod=mw_share_twitter&fbclid=IwAR09ratjdmLl04A69UeIc1Fmowcjkwx0ZrAB9oh9D1stL-_6aqBJKDKGiY0
ReplyDelete"Worse, the cobbled-together coalition of states that let Trump squeak to his Electoral College win disappeared — and showed signs of collapsing altogether by 2020.
This is not what you’ll hear from a president who routinely, and falsely, claims his Electoral College win was historically large. He won 306 electoral votes in 2016 by winning stunning, narrow victories in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with a total of 36 electoral votes. That’s exactly the 36 votes he won over and above the 270 he needed to win.
All three states elected Democratic governors Tuesday, two of them handily. (Tony Evers squeaked to a win over Republican incumbent Scott Walker in Wisconsin, as expected). All three re-elected Democratic senators.
Ohio, an industrial state that Trump won big, easily re-elected a Democratic senator and elected a GOP governor, in a mild upset, who’s much closer, ideologically and temperamentally, to outgoing Gov. John Kasich, who openly loathes Trump. Pennsylvania flipped three suburban House seats to Democrats."
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They're wrong about DeWine though. He is absolutely a trump boot-licker.
Headlines from politicalwire.com[Click]
ReplyDeleteJeff Sessions Resigns as Attorney General
Tester Wins In Montana
Trump Threatens Democrats If They Pursue Investigations [and once again indicates a)he has something big to hide, and b)has no idea how the government works]
And now off to Art class.
P.S.: Who in anything resembling their right mind would agree to be nominated AG?
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/07/trump-unchecked-power-end-midterms?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR1kRbxnSE2pjg69A65Tkyh20v9crlMAHLANA5lGmu16SSjPp9_wlpHYcWc
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump’s unchecked hold on power has come to an abrupt end, and if his predecessors are any guide, it won’t return any time soon. There will be no more Trump tax cuts for big businesses, and no slashing Trump cuts to social security or healthcare. Still, there will be more Trump judges and possibly more US supreme court nominees.
https://washingtonpress.com/2018/11/07/republicans-just-elected-a-dead-pimp-who-died-of-partying/?fbclid=IwAR3ZfsM0lJzzWQv2T1XWeyyG8klP68H1JrWhdKuXDmDyhPl8NpnBdRwIfN0
ReplyDeleteThere were also some disturbing signs about just how toxic and mindless a core segment of the Republican voting base has become.One such sign came in Nevada, where The Hill reports that Republican Dennis Hof was able to win a seat in the legislature. The problem? Hof died roughly a month ago. What’s more, Hof was hardly a paragon of so-called conservative “family values,” as he owned seven brothels and died after a weekend of heavy partying. He was 72.
That’s right, GOP voters elected a dead pimp to state government.
Wow. They just keep going lower and lower.
DeleteAh, he was the one. I mistakenly thought he was running for U.S. Senate. Saw him on television bragging that evangelical voters loved him. After all, he was a successful businessman, so clearly not in politics for the money. Guess he was right. His voter base loved him. :P
Delete"Base" is the word.
DeleteHere in Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott, a moderate Republican, won re-election. The good news is that the Vermont House picked up 12 seats so the Legislature is now veto-proof! This is significant because there were several key bills passed by the Legislature this past session which Scott vetoed. Onward!!
ReplyDeleteI just saw that Trump is trying to deep-six the Mueller investigation. "Wednesday Morning Massacre." I remain confident that Mueller laid plans to deal with exactly such a possibility; if anyone knows how, it would be him. The legal chowderheads who work for Trump would not be expected to have a clue about how such things could be done.
ReplyDeleteBeto’s Loss Was a Blessing in Disguise for Democrats[Click]
ReplyDeleteThank you Donald Trump for giving us the year of the woman [Click]
The Beto link is a note of wisdom as balance for our hope. Both wisdom and hope are needed, going forward. Onward! That said, my "hope" would be Bernie/Beto 2020. I will have to mull my sense of "wisdom." That could take awhile.
DeleteBe gentle with yourselves. ♥
I wonder if one of the lady (hmmmm... dating myself) governors might attract interest in 2020; I liked Jennifer Granholm, but she was born in Canada. And I still like Eric Garcetti.
DeleteAll precincts reporting in California (but counts are not final--significant numbers of ballots yet to be tallied).
ReplyDeleteJanz lost, 56:44 sigh.
Close races for US Representative: Jeff Denham (R) just ahead, Dana Rohrabacher (R) just behind.
Superintendent of Public Instruction: Thurmond (my choice) just behind Tuck.
Governor, Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer and Attorney General, all Democratic winners about 60:40.
Take a look at the map for US Senate race [Click]
From the LA Times:
Every [US] House seat was up for election. For Democrats to regain control, they needed to flip 23 seats held by the Republican majority. The Democrats have gained 28 seats. There are 15 races where a winner has yet to be called.
Sorry about Janz!
DeleteLosing track of firings and resignations at the White House? Here is a nice summary! [Click]
ReplyDeleteWell, Wednesday was interesting. I watched Election returns until first light, slept 'til nearly noon, then put the last of the gardens to bed for Winter and planted our Spring bulbs. It was a nearly perfect sort of day, except that when I came in to take a shower I found a dog tick on my side. Fortunately it was walking along and not latched on. Caught the little bugger, and will keep its remains on ice for a month. But I believe all's well.
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