I think it's a pretty fucking big blue wave. Not a blue tsunami, which was kinda unfair of the media to hype, and a lot of the long-shot very publicized races (Beto, others) didn't work out for Dems, but this is AMAZING, in terms of how many votes are needed to flip this many seats while taking all the fucking gerrymandering into account. I'm not ecstatic, but I think this is a very very very good result. There's also a lot of flipping going on in gubernatorial and state senate races, I think.
I mean, yesterday people were going "It might all come down to California!" (in an obvious echo of 2016 and how many pop votes Hillary got there) "We might not know for a MONTH if the house depends on CA!" and they've already flipped a big majority in the house and the CA polls haven't even closed yet. That such a big flip happened so quickly, despite the gerrymandering and without CA, is a huge thing.
And I mean there's something like 76K votes separating Gillum and his opponent. That is pretty fucking amazing And there was still disenfranchisement going on, in FL and GA. Stacey Abrams supporters are saying don't give up with like 99% of the vote in because there still could be a statistical chance of a runoff. There have been losses, yeah, but close ones. At least one runoff already happening (GA). The difference in the Walker race right now is I think 7K votes!
....meanwhile MSNBC has the white male conservative asswipe who keeps dominating the conversation and going "NO BLUE WAVE! NO BIG WIN!" and "exurban!" every five minutes and Andrea Mitchell is literally sitting there looking at her phone because he won't let anyone else talk. It's a pretty diverse panel (two white women, two black guys) and this white guy is STILL BABBLING. ...oh wait no, Tom Brokaw just replaced one of the white guys. WTF is he still doing up at this hour.
Re: Democrat Jared Polis wins Colorado governor race
I mean, yesterday people were going "It might all come down to California!" (in an obvious echo of 2016 and how many pop votes Hillary got there) "We might not know for a MONTH if the house depends on CA!" and they've already flipped a big majority in the house and the CA polls haven't even closed yet. That such a big flip happened so quickly, despite the gerrymandering and without CA, is a huge thing.
And I mean there's something like 76K votes separating Gillum and his opponent. That is pretty fucking amazing And there was still disenfranchisement going on, in FL and GA. Stacey Abrams supporters are saying don't give up with like 99% of the vote in because there still could be a statistical chance of a runoff. There have been losses, yeah, but close ones. At least one runoff already happening (GA). The difference in the Walker race right now is I think 7K votes!
....meanwhile MSNBC has the white male conservative asswipe who keeps dominating the conversation and going "NO BLUE WAVE! NO BIG WIN!" and "exurban!" every five minutes and Andrea Mitchell is literally sitting there looking at her phone because he won't let anyone else talk. It's a pretty diverse panel (two white women, two black guys) and this white guy is STILL BABBLING. ...oh wait no, Tom Brokaw just replaced one of the white guys. WTF is he still doing up at this hour.