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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#260376: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:27:55 PM

[lol][tup]

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#260377: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:28:13 PM

The house might currently be more important. Especially if Mueller goes ahead against mini-Trump tomorrow.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#260378: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:28:41 PM

Taking the Senate (or even just keeping the balance the same) was always a long shot. While losing any seats is still bad, it's important to keep that in perspective.

Edited by LSBK on Nov 6th 2018 at 9:28:57 AM

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#260379: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:29:01 PM

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The House is looking good, but we still haven't gotten all the votes. It ain't over till it's over.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#260380: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:29:38 PM

Yeah, over 200 seats have not been declared yet. Definitely "not over till it's over".

BigMadDraco Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#260381: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:30:44 PM

Beto was always a long shot, but he's looking to have moved the needle about 12 points.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#260382: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:30:48 PM

But we have taken 11 out of the 23 we need, so that's good news.

Scratch that, 12 seats.

Edited by Parable on Nov 6th 2018 at 7:32:05 AM

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
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#260383: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:32:29 PM

Beto probably brought in thousands of new Texan Democrats. Texas has been a Republican stronghold for a very long time. It's not going to fall overnight.

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#260384: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:32:43 PM

Texas is now double called for the Republicans, placing the Republicans at 50 senate seats according to ABC and 49 according to the AP (who have yet to call North Dakota).

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#260385: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:33:13 PM

But we have taken 11 out of the 23 we need, so that's good news.

And most of the remaining races are still toss-ups. The races being called were ones that had some kind of leaning one way or the other.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#260386: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:37:32 PM

Urgh...looks like the Democrats are losing seats in the Senate. Not good.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#260387: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:39:01 PM

The Senate is lost to us, but if we take the House than the only thing that really effects is judges and cabinet appointments, and we already didn't have any power over those anyway.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#260388: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:40:52 PM

Also this has been said multiple times but the Senate being lost was the expected outcome.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#260389: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:40:59 PM

Now the question is, will the Democrats take back the House?

Stay tuned to find out! Now, a commercial break.

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wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
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#260390: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:41:02 PM

If it’s any consolation, the odds of us taking the senate were terrible, the map was terrible, and since the Republicans already had the majority, losing a couple seats is.. honestly not a huge problem. Most votes have been partyline or the Dems have caved (military funding etc). Going from 49-51 to 48-52 or 47-53... isn’t making things much worse.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#260391: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:41:21 PM

I'm not praying Hell opens up and swallows Mitch Mc Connell but that is one avenue to gain a seat.

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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#260392: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:42:08 PM

[up]The Kentucky dems are already trying to find someone to beat him as we speak, according to what i'm hearing.

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#260393: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:42:52 PM

Losing in a HUGE way though is really bad.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#260394: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:43:13 PM

Everyone in the state hates Mitch.

Including evangelicals, poor whites, middle class whites, and every minority.

I'm not sure he doesn't just throw out any vote not for him.

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Bur from Flyover Country (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#260395: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:43:38 PM

Oh god, watching MO flop back and forth is driving me to drink.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#260396: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:43:51 PM

I knew we weren't taking the Senate. I was hoping to avoid losing seats, however.

The Blue Wave isn't a thing. It was never going to be a thing. It was a pipe dream that people started talking about like two days after Trump's election in 2016 to avoid confronting the ugly truth of how bad 2016 truly went for us. It was a salve to ease people's anxieties about the Trump Administration.

But as I've said before, you should have anxieties about the Trump Administration. We need to be fighting, not fantasizing.

It looks like we're probably going to take the House, but not by a significant margin. What I want the Democrats to take away from this is that we can't put our hopes in the idea that the future will just pan out. I don't want to spend the next two years talking about Blue Waves and Blue Walls and Blue This or That that surely will come save us in 2020.

I want the next two years to be spent treating the Republicans like a legitimate adversary and competing against them. No more Temporarily Embarrassed Majority Party nonsense. We're gaining a foothold. It's time to knuckle down and fight.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 6th 2018 at 8:44:11 AM

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#260397: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:44:25 PM

Also, Florida isn't out yet - it's within margin for a recount.

Edited by Ramidel on Nov 6th 2018 at 6:45:05 AM

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#260398: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:44:30 PM

Mitch is horrible, yeah.

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#260399: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:44:56 PM

Colorado now has a Democratic government trifecta.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#260400: Nov 6th 2018 at 7:45:09 PM

I'm seeing that the Dems have picked up the Colorado state senate, giving them total control over Colorado's state government.

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