Blue Wave Update: Democrats poised to win 40 House seats
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I actually do not know what you are talking about or what your point is.
The reasons I think this Blue Wave and a Democratic House of Representatives are important and necessary are as follows:
That last point is especially important because we have lived with two decades of government controlled by the minority, as the GOP has continually lost the national popular vote, and has relentlessly used gerrymandering and voter suppression to ensure their stranglehold on the government even as most Americans vote against the Republican Party.
Collectively, my panoply of functions for a Democratic House of Representatives are important and necessary functions of an opposition party in a representative democracy.
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Adolf_Twitler
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I bet Obama loves the Blue Waves!
Text Drivers are Killers
Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Last wednesday it was 23 seats. Then dems "found" all these ballots laying around.
reagansghost
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oh no, them Dems is crooked!
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
Your first election, huh?
I actually do not know what you are talking about or what your point is.
The reasons I think this Blue Wave and a Democratic House of Representatives are important and necessary are as follows:
That last point is especially important because we have lived with two decades of government controlled by the minority, as the GOP has continually lost the national popular vote, and has relentlessly used gerrymandering and voter suppression to ensure their stranglehold on the government even as most Americans vote against the Republican Party.
Collectively, my panoply of functions for a Democratic House of Representatives are important and necessary functions of an opposition party in a representative democracy.
But, it wasn't a blue wave.
Cry harder.
Just because Fox News told you on election night that it was a Blue Trickle does not change the fact that close elections always take time to count all the ballots and resolve any legal challenges.
Fox News just neglected to tell you that, so that's on you.... and as every day goes by the Blue Wave looks bigger and bluer as more races are called.
Bluw Wave Rolls On - More House Races Called for Democrats
More House Races Called for Democrats
- Democrats are still ahead in seven out of 10 outstanding races.
A few Congressional races were called in California one week after the midterm election.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Central Valley Republican Rep. Jeff Denham lost his seat to Democrat Josh Harder Tuesday evening as counting continued.
The win came after Republican Rep. Mimi Walters lost to challenger Katie Porter.
“The California Republican Party isn’t salvageable at this time,” ex-Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen wrote on the CalMatter site. “The Grand Old Party is dead — partly because it has failed to separate itself from today’s toxic, national brand of Republican politics.”
Democrats are still ahead in seven out of 10 races.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/ca...nd-old-party-dead-democrats-rack-house-seats/
More House Races Called for Democrats
- Democrats are still ahead in seven out of 10 outstanding races.
A few Congressional races were called in California one week after the midterm election.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Central Valley Republican Rep. Jeff Denham lost his seat to Democrat Josh Harder Tuesday evening as counting continued.
The win came after Republican Rep. Mimi Walters lost to challenger Katie Porter.
“The California Republican Party isn’t salvageable at this time,” ex-Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen wrote on the CalMatter site. “The Grand Old Party is dead — partly because it has failed to separate itself from today’s toxic, national brand of Republican politics.”
Democrats are still ahead in seven out of 10 races.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/ca...nd-old-party-dead-democrats-rack-house-seats/
Blue Wave Just Became a Blue Tsunami
Democrats’ blue wave was much larger than early takes suggested
With all votes counted, it’s a larger landslide than 1994 or 2010.
The narrative that congealed election night before polls had even closed on the West Coast was that while Democrats may have taken the House, they also underperformed relative to expectations and the hoped-for blue wave had turned into, in the words of columnist Nick Kristof at the New York Times, “only a blue trickle.”
This was a questionable interpretation at the time it was offered, but subsequent events have shown it to be almost entirely a psychological illusion based on timing.
Like in any election, Democrats both won some squeakers and lost some squeakers. They overperformed expectations in some races and underperformed them in others. And in 2018, it happens to be the case that Democrats got some of their most disappointing results in East Coast states with early closing times, while the GOP’s biggest disappointments came disproportionately in late-counting states.
Consequently, what felt to many like a disappointment as of 11 pm Eastern time on election night now looks more and more like a triumph.
House Democrats scored a bigger win than the 2010 GOP wave
One of Democrats’ basic problems with election night narratives is that in a country that’s fairly closely divided, the Pacific time zone has an overwhelming pro-Democratic tilt. But West Coast jurisdictions also tend to have generous vote-by-mail rules that result in slow vote-counting. Consequently, savvy election analysts are aware (but casual observers are not) that Democrats’ vote haul always improves in the days that follow Election Day.
To put the “ripple” in perspective, consider this striking analysis from Nate Silver and Dave Wasserman, two of the top quantitative election analysts in the world: Democrats will win the popular vote by a larger margin than the GOP achieved in either the 1994 or 2010 waves.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/13/18082490/blue-wave
Democrats’ blue wave was much larger than early takes suggested
With all votes counted, it’s a larger landslide than 1994 or 2010.
The narrative that congealed election night before polls had even closed on the West Coast was that while Democrats may have taken the House, they also underperformed relative to expectations and the hoped-for blue wave had turned into, in the words of columnist Nick Kristof at the New York Times, “only a blue trickle.”
This was a questionable interpretation at the time it was offered, but subsequent events have shown it to be almost entirely a psychological illusion based on timing.
Like in any election, Democrats both won some squeakers and lost some squeakers. They overperformed expectations in some races and underperformed them in others. And in 2018, it happens to be the case that Democrats got some of their most disappointing results in East Coast states with early closing times, while the GOP’s biggest disappointments came disproportionately in late-counting states.
Consequently, what felt to many like a disappointment as of 11 pm Eastern time on election night now looks more and more like a triumph.
House Democrats scored a bigger win than the 2010 GOP wave
One of Democrats’ basic problems with election night narratives is that in a country that’s fairly closely divided, the Pacific time zone has an overwhelming pro-Democratic tilt. But West Coast jurisdictions also tend to have generous vote-by-mail rules that result in slow vote-counting. Consequently, savvy election analysts are aware (but casual observers are not) that Democrats’ vote haul always improves in the days that follow Election Day.
To put the “ripple” in perspective, consider this striking analysis from Nate Silver and Dave Wasserman, two of the top quantitative election analysts in the world: Democrats will win the popular vote by a larger margin than the GOP achieved in either the 1994 or 2010 waves.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/13/18082490/blue-wave
Voters in three deep red states begged for an expansion of Obamacare this week. Obamacare's Medicaid expansion was arguably the most progressive element of the Affordable Care Act
Some also voted for a higher min, wage. Even rightys approve of Dem policies.
Time to put Trump on Suicide Watch??
Democrat Porter flips GOP House seat in Southern California
LOS ANGELES — Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S. House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California's Reagan country, extending a rout of the state's GOP House delegation.
Porter's upset in Orange County is a sign of changing times in a region once known nationally as a GOP fortress. The coastal county southeast of Los Angeles was home to President Richard Nixon, and President Ronald Reagan once likened it to a Republican heaven.
Porter, a law professor and protege of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, defeated Republican Rep. Mimi Walters, who was re-elected in a walkover just two years ago in the 45th District. The latest update to the vote count gave Porter 51 percent and a 6,203-vote lead.
Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct opposition to President Donald Trump's priorities: She advocates overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on so-called assault-style weapons.
She said she was running "to hold Donald Trump and the powerful special interests in Washington accountable."Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct opposition to President Donald Trump's priorities: She advocates overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on so-called assault-style weapons.
She said she was running "to hold Donald Trump and the powerful special interests in Washington accountable."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...outhern-california/ar-BBPLchi?ocid=spartandhp
Democrat Porter flips GOP House seat in Southern California
LOS ANGELES — Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S. House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California's Reagan country, extending a rout of the state's GOP House delegation.
Porter's upset in Orange County is a sign of changing times in a region once known nationally as a GOP fortress. The coastal county southeast of Los Angeles was home to President Richard Nixon, and President Ronald Reagan once likened it to a Republican heaven.
Porter, a law professor and protege of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, defeated Republican Rep. Mimi Walters, who was re-elected in a walkover just two years ago in the 45th District. The latest update to the vote count gave Porter 51 percent and a 6,203-vote lead.
Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct opposition to President Donald Trump's priorities: She advocates overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on so-called assault-style weapons.
She said she was running "to hold Donald Trump and the powerful special interests in Washington accountable."Porter, 44, campaigned on an unabashed liberal agenda and in direct opposition to President Donald Trump's priorities: She advocates overturning his tax reform package, supports universal health care, and endorses mandatory background checks on all gun sales and a ban on so-called assault-style weapons.
She said she was running "to hold Donald Trump and the powerful special interests in Washington accountable."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...outhern-california/ar-BBPLchi?ocid=spartandhp
40 Seats Flipped Despite Massive GOP Gerrymandering....
TJ Cox seizes lead in close California House race that would give Democrats 40 flipped seats
November 26
Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., surrendered the lead Monday in his close House race that will determine whether Democrats achieve a net gain of 40 seats in the next term.
Democrat TJ Cox jumped ahead by a margin of 438 votes — his first lead since Election Day on Nov. 6 — and prognosticators don't expect he'll relinquish it, even as thousands of votes have yet to be counted.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ce-that-would-give-democrats-40-flipped-seats
TJ Cox seizes lead in close California House race that would give Democrats 40 flipped seats
November 26
Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., surrendered the lead Monday in his close House race that will determine whether Democrats achieve a net gain of 40 seats in the next term.
Democrat TJ Cox jumped ahead by a margin of 438 votes — his first lead since Election Day on Nov. 6 — and prognosticators don't expect he'll relinquish it, even as thousands of votes have yet to be counted.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ce-that-would-give-democrats-40-flipped-seats
Patriots and our long standing allies around the world should thank Donald Trump for being personally responsible for giving the House of Representatives to the Democratic Party.
Without legitimate oversight, I seriously doubt if Trump's corruption and complete disregard for ethical conduct, would never have been put on public display in this way.
I doubt a Republican senate will ever remove Trump from office, but Trump and his corruption and sleaziness are out in the open now, and every Republican candidate needs to have Trump hung around his neck in 2020.
Not that exciting, Democrats will maintain the House but won't gain the Senate, and the GOP will win the majority of Governor races
https://www.politico.com/2020-election/race-forecasts-and-predictions/