Election results: the sequel!

[rydra_wong]

Following on from here -- since results are still coming in, I figure people might appreciate a space to share late-breaking squee, commiserate over losses, or bite their nails while votes are counted and recounted.

ETA: because it's worth knowing and being able to point out: this is the most House seats gained by Democrats since the post-Watergate election:

NPR: It Was A Big, Blue Wave: Democrats Pick Up Most House Seats In A Generation

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[rydra_wong]

I didn't post this just so I could squee about Jared Golden's win, but I admit it was a factor:

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1063124205225607171
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/maine-house-district-2

[jjhunter]

Have you read Tech Solidarity's 2017 interview with Jared Golden?

[rydra_wong]

I had not! That's excellent, and go him for being out with his PTSD diagnosis.

[kore]

Jeff Flake's seat in AZ was won by a woman! Democrat Kyrsten Sinema defeated Republican Martha McSally. She is the first Democrat senator from AZ since 1988, the state's first female senator AND the first openly bisexual senator. How is that for a triple threat. SUCK IT, JEFF FLAKE, YOU COULD HAVE VOTED NO ON KAVANAUGH AND YOU DIDN'T.

This win also means that the GOP gains in the Senate are down to ONE SEAT. The Republicans defeated Dem incumbents in North Dakota, Indiana and Missouri, but the Dems flipped sets in NV and AZ. Democrats flipped seats in Nevada and now Arizona. AND there are two outstanding races: FL, with Rick Scott and Bill Nelson, and Mississippi will have a runoff on the 27th.

[minoanmiss]

*bounces with delight*

[kore]

Check out this tweet! https://twitter.com/tammybaldwin/status/1062174885361999872

[lynnenne]

Woot!

[cadenzamuse]

The AZ was an extra pleasure for Spouse and me over in Ohio because we wrote a few postcards to this district. :D

[redbird]

I'm pleased that CA-10 was called for Chuck Harder a couple of days ago, because he's one of the candidates I was writing postcards to voters for.

[sathari]

All the state level flips, ALL OF THEM.

Stacey Abrams fighting it out because representation and the right to vote for our elected officials is, ahem, why the USA is in fact a distinct and separate nation in its own right. (Also Bill Nelson and Andrew Gillum but. Abrams is a Yale Law tax wonk with a record of making bipartisan deals in the GA House and that is exactly the pragmatic progressive the entire world needs. Even if you don't want to hang with her over drinks/snacks and geekery at DragonCon which I really want to do, she so much gives every last deleted expletive about trying to figure out what works for the state she wants to govern based on actual representative democracy.)

Nevada's overall flip.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi being everything I want in politics with and at each other in public.

I want to TL;DR about Jeff Flake's recent sharp support of S-2644 (the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act which has bipartisan support), but let's just say that I wish he'd gone as far about a certain SCOTUS nomination process (because said nominee contradicted his own publicly available documentation while he was under oath before Dr. Blasey ever had to become a public figure, a-HEM).

[rydra_wong]

I posted about this in the other thread but it was a fairly late-breaking one and SO awesome -- Lucy McBath won!

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/handel-concedes-mcbath-wins-georgia-6th

This is an article about her from the spring:

Mother Jones: A White Man Shot and Killed Her Only Son. Now Lucy McBath Is Running So It Doesn’t Happen to Anyone Else.

Ad she won Newt Gingrich's old seat!

Another fairly late-breaking one

[rydra_wong]

Katie Hill has won California's 25th District!

rachelmanija campaigned for her and says:

Katie is a staunch liberal who used to run an organization to help homeless people and veterans. She has solid values and admirable politics, and has lived in the district her entire life. She is also a 30-year-old bisexual rock climber who takes in rescue goats.

[rydra_wong]

Don't know when this was announced but I just saw this reported and it's glorious:

NYT: Meet the Native American Woman Who Beat the Sponsor of North Dakota’s ID Law

She's also the first Native American Democratic woman elected to the North Dakota Legislature (and she has an impressive resume in public health work and sounds awesome).

[rydra_wong]

Katie Porter's won!

Daily Kos: California Republican concedes defeat in race she said months ago wasn't even competitive

[rydra_wong]

Gil Cisneros has won (flipping the last GOP seat in Orange County)!

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1063980622887206912