GOP Gets the worst Midterm Beating Since Watergate

[Truth Detector]

So the racist right keeps cheating and Americans just accept it as if it's legit. As if that's how it's suppose to be. It's as if they want the racist to keep control.

Got it!

12 million is a lot......just saying

Thar he blows!!!

Riding the SHORT Race hustling BUS

The TROLL TRAIN!

[PoliTalker]

Hello Darth,

The Blue Wave was supposed to be a massive repudiation of Trump and the Wave was a trickle.

The Blue Wave was offset by the Red Seawall of gerrymandering. It was really a Blue Wave but the effect was limited by Republican district rigging and voter suppression efforts. The good news is that baloney will only work so much, and will eventually be overcome just like the rising seas will overcome whatever humans try to do to hold them back unless we take climate change seriously.

[Cypress]

GOP loses governorships in Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada and Maine; three states remain undecided

No blue wave?

Kansas is the most surprising to me. That state is blood red Republican.

I chalk the GOP Kansas losses up to Trumpism, and to the Republicans scheme of trickle down tax cuts for the rich disaster.

[PostmodernProphet]

The dems won back 1/3 of the seats in one election that Obama lost in 8 years

only a third, eh........guess that sucks......

[cawacko]

Kansas is the most surprising to me. That state is blood red Republican.

I chalk the GOP Kansas losses up to Trumpism, and to the Republicans scheme of trickle down tax cuts for the rich disaster.

It shows performance matters. Connecticut had a Rep Gov as did Maryland. California even nominally had one a decade ago. It shows blue or red aside people still demand performance.

[PostmodernProphet]

You understand how many seats Dems had to defend, right?

not to mention, they didn't do it very well.....

[Nomad]

The Blue Wave was supposed to be a massive repudiation of Trump and the Wave was a trickle.

It was big enough to wash the little Republican gnats out of control of the House.

Wasn't it?

[PostmodernProphet]

This election was a massive statement about Trump.

so given that Trump gained seats in the senate and lost them in the house, what exactly was that massive statement......that the electorate has not made up its mind yet?.......

[Nomad]

GOP loses governorships in Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada and Maine; three states remain undecided

No blue wave?

[TTQ64]

I still give Obama most of the credit, but deregulation did contribute. Also, while I think Trump's tax plan is fiscally irresponsible & will hurt the economy long-term, it definitely gave us a short-term boost (which was its intent, imo).

WOW

[evince]

And the deluded stalinist hard right wing of the GOP say their defeat is a 'victory' for them.

yes they do

lets give them a victory they can claim all their lives in prison


Donny can say he went to prison on purpose because his favorite color is orange

[Ralph]

Putting the GOP’s House losses in context does Trump no favors

If we look only at a president’s first midterm cycle – in other words, after a president has been in office for two years, as opposed to six – the average between 1914 and 2014 is nearly 33 seats. If we look only at Republican presidents, the average is about 27 seats.

With these metrics in mind, 2018 doesn’t look great for Trump’s GOP.


This year’s Republican losses, barring major surprises in the final tallies, are higher than the historical average and the worst for a GOP president since the 1974 midterms in the aftermath of Watergate.

The exceedingly Republican-friendly Senate landscape notwithstanding, it’s tough to see this as anything but a significant setback for the president and his party.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...rump-no-favors

No blue wave?

Really? With over 40 republican congressmen "quitting".....the left managed only to get a net gain of a few seats while losing seats in the Senate (the body that appoints scotus judges). Yeah.....hell of a victory. After 2 years of buyers remorse leading up to the 2020 elections....how easy will it be for the republicans to sweep every branch of government again? Lets see what the DO NOTHING CONGRESS gets done over the next 2 years. Hating Trump is not an accomplishment....its a disease.

[Irish]

Putting the GOP’s House losses in context does Trump no favors

If we look only at a president’s first midterm cycle – in other words, after a president has been in office for two years, as opposed to six – the average between 1914 and 2014 is nearly 33 seats. If we look only at Republican presidents, the average is about 27 seats.

With these metrics in mind, 2018 doesn’t look great for Trump’s GOP.


This year’s Republican losses, barring major surprises in the final tallies, are higher than the historical average and the worst for a GOP president since the 1974 midterms in the aftermath of Watergate.

The exceedingly Republican-friendly Senate landscape notwithstanding, it’s tough to see this as anything but a significant setback for the president and his party.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...rump-no-favors

No blue wave?

You are gloating over 32 house seats? ANd losing ground in the Senate? LOL!

[evince]

not to mention, they didn't do it very well.....

um how many seats did we take


what is the record number of seats taken in a midterm?

[Phantasmal]

Putting the GOP’s House losses in context does Trump no favors

If we look only at a president’s first midterm cycle – in other words, after a president has been in office for two years, as opposed to six – the average between 1914 and 2014 is nearly 33 seats. If we look only at Republican presidents, the average is about 27 seats.

With these metrics in mind, 2018 doesn’t look great for Trump’s GOP.


This year’s Republican losses, barring major surprises in the final tallies, are higher than the historical average and the worst for a GOP president since the 1974 midterms in the aftermath of Watergate.

The exceedingly Republican-friendly Senate landscape notwithstanding, it’s tough to see this as anything but a significant setback for the president and his party.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...rump-no-favors

No blue wave?

They think it’s no wave because we didn’t take the Senate. Republicans are more vulnerable in 2020, the Resistence is already focusing on then.