Nov 7, 2018
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You look tired. Well, you didn’t sleep much last night, but it wasn’t the Ambien playing with you. We won. Trump lost. So this isn’t a dream, but it’s not a nightmare either. Dems have won more seats than the 2006 blue wave, indeed more than almost all of the “waves”. However, most pundits just wrote their “No Wave” stories, and went to bed as the wave crossed their fly-over states. This morning, Sarah Sanders saw an unanimous red wave, but Donald Trump could only see red, and speak “mob”.
Today, David Waldman and Greg Dworkin begin their look into specific gains and losses and what they mean for our future:
Without gerrymandering, that 9.4% would feel a lot better. Democrats won about 60% of the popular vote for the Senate.
The votes are almost in, even if the stories aren’t. Angie Craig unseats Jason Lewis in Minnesota. Harley Rouda beats Dana Rohrabacher in California. In Maine, the Republican leads by a teeny-tiny bit, so ranked-choice voting could actually come into play. Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout with two moms, is now an Iowa State Senator. Brian Kemp’s voter suppression in Georgia almost suppressed his vote, but who knows, he still could win. The three states that delivered the Trump presidency all elected Democratic governors and senators last night.
Our new House of Representatives begins to look more like America. Democrats will be making a lot more decisions that matter, where they matter, and are ready to work. Nancy Pelosi knows what to do, and so does Robert Mueller.
Republicans would rather vote for a dead pimp than switch. The Gop maintains a strong lead with the Indicted-American community.
Donald Trump says goodbye to those that crossed him, and many more that didn’t. Democrats couldn’t have done it without him. The Kavanaugh bump was maybe a dip depending on who’s looking.
By the end of the today’s show Mitch McConnell finally shut up, allowing Joan McCarter to call in and tell of the Medicaid wave in western states!