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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I wish, there is literally nothing I can do which is part of what makes all this so fucking frustrating.
I uprooted my life to escape this kind of crap, where a party of racist, sexist, morons with no ability to run an economy remain in control of the country indefinably by lieing and abusing quirks in the electoral system
And instead its another year of being reminded that that just followed me, only now I have zero ability do do any thing about it because I cant even vote.
I was never expecting Dems to win senate, but I was expecting them not to loose a large number of seats, and was expecting them to take at least some of the profile governors spots.
Instead they have lost Florida to a trumpet who might as well have been a parody where they also probably lost (100,000 votes down with less then 1% unreported) an 18 year senator to an actual criminal.... They lost Georgia to some one so corupt that its amazing there not in jail.
At the current point the gains do not seem to offset the losses.
King is in a dead heat, the other districts have flipped D.
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It may become a sweep for Democrats in the House.
Edited by AzurePaladin on Nov 6th 2018 at 11:52:16 AM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -Fighteer@Crimson Zephyr: Considering that Republican now means being as close to Trump as one can possibly then I think it's pretty much impossible for most Democrats to do that.
Still if more Moderate candidates are winning then that does not bode well for more ambitious Presidential candidates and those hoping for a much bigger wave of reform from Democrats.
x6 You can actually do a lot, even though you can’t vote. You can campaign. A lot of DACA kids campaigned for Beto; it’s entirely legal. You can talk “nice” republican ladies into flipping. You can help contact democratic voters to increase turnout. You’ve got a lot of power <3
Edited by wisewillow on Nov 6th 2018 at 11:52:54 AM
So, let me see if I've got this right
The general consensus seems to be:
We took the House, and that's a good thing.
Losing some Senate seats hurts, but we didn't lose the Senate itself, because we never HAD the Senate
So overall, despite some disappointments, things turned out alright.
Is that about it?
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.@Cris: Sorry, I should have clarified; I meant has the situation really changed as far as the Senate's concerned? I already know that the Dems having control the House is nothing but positives. (Thanks anyway, though :P)
As an aside, the mention earlier of more aggressive Democratic candidates being more successful reminds me of the video posted several pages ago, about the GOP appealing to the Dem's better nature to dissuade them from doing things that actually work in favour of claiming moral victories. Linking into this, I feel like the popular image of the Democratic party in recent years has been one of fairly wishy-washy candidates that bank too much on abstract concepts like 'unity' and 'goodness' and never seem to directly address their opponents' blatant bigotry in the interest of seeming bipartisan - which frankly seems like a lost cause at this point. So I'd agree that what they'd need going forward are more candidates who speak candidly (no pun intended) about bigotry and hypocrisy.
Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on Nov 6th 2018 at 4:56:13 PM
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!Right now it's looking like it'll be 3-4. 538 is predicting a Republican gain of 3.
No worries. In that case, no, not really. It's pretty much the same.
Edited by Cris_Meyers on Nov 6th 2018 at 10:56:01 AM
@Mr Hellboy: Depends on how high your expectations were going in and how optimistic you are in general. Then there are also local conditions.
Even if many things went right I can't really since the loses in Florida will effect me directly.
Edited by Mio on Nov 6th 2018 at 11:56:01 AM

New Hampshire joins New York and Colorado in having a Democrat Trifecta; Democrats control the House, Senate and Governorship (both Chambers flipped in this election with NH). Minnesota's State House is also on track to flip.