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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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).
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranIf 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.
I'm not praying Hell opens up and swallows Mitch Mc Connell but that is one avenue to gain a seat.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.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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