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Use this post to talk about the results.

Are there any (unexpectedly) good results in your district or state? Or in districts where you've been volunteering though organisations like Swing Left or Sister District? Are there any results you're excited about for candidates outside your district that you've been following/donating to (perhaps from the various slates we've posted)?

Share the squee or commiserate about near misses!

(Posted early because I'm out for the evening and want to make sure this is ready for when you need it!)

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From:

kore

CO has just elected the nation's first openly gay governor! https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/politics/jared-polis-colorado-gay-governor/index.html

From:

kore

Also Democratic governor results in Oregon and California! (GO GAVIN GO) Dems have net gain of 20 house seats so far. I'm going to be really really interested in the outcomes of the gubernatorial and other state races.

From:

kitajmaze

POLIS MAH MAN! Ah yeah.Between this and the House results, looks like we don't have to move to Canada just yet. I hope.

From:

kore

AND Massachusetts affirms transgender protections!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/nov/06/us-midterms-elections-2018-latest-live-polls-news-updates-donald-trump-republicans-democrats?page=with:block-5be268e6e4b0e3827e155ba1#block-5be268e6e4b0e3827e155ba1

In the first statewide referendum on transgender rights, Massachusetts voters on Tuesday beat back a repeal attempt and reaffirmed a 2016 law extending nondiscrimination protections to transgender people, including their use of public bathrooms and locker rooms, the AP reports:

Supporters of the law had feared a vote to repeal would prompt a wave of similar efforts to roll back protections in other states. Already, some protections at the federal level are under threat from President Donald Trump’s administration.

“When transgender rights are being threatened nationally, we absolutely must preserve the rights we have secured at the state level,” said Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

From:

kitajmaze

Dare we hope humanity has not yet lost it's fucking mind.

From:

kore

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.

Edited Date: 2018-11-07 05:35 am (UTC)

From:

kitajmaze

Yeah, this is fucking awesome. We were never gonna take the Senate, despite the WAVE hype. It would have had to be tsunami like you said, and that was dumb hype.

Oh, Tom. I am old enough to remember when Brokaw his buds did news. With no commentary. Just fucking news. I don't know how this guy even looks at today's news broadcasters with a straight face. I watched mostly CNN, but even they were OMG NOW TRUMP WILL PAYYY! Which, ok, yes yay, but dude. NEWS. JUST GIVE ME NEWS. I can come to DW to squee! /get off my lawn.

From:

kore

AHAHAHA, my dad was a news writer/reporter and worked with Jennings and would sit there and analyze the Big Three network anchors with me and it was pretty fascinating. He was just flabberghasted at what news had turned into.

Meanwhile a NINETY-THREE VOTE DIFFERENCE in MN, holy fucking shit. There are a LOT of close races.

"The Alaska house race!" the MSNBC guy says with totally forced enthusiasm. Heh, I bet they want to just go home and go to bed.