While Republicans entered the night with historical precedent and weeks of red wave projections firmly on their side, Democrats hit the hay in the wee hours of Wednesday morning tentatively cheers-ing their success in fending off a bloodbath.
I’ve been paying attention since Ike and Dick. This didn’t go as well as I had hoped. We have to get the next one well in hand or we will not thrive in any sense of the word.
I noticed in her bio that TPM reporter Ms. Yucel, was on her college fencing team.
Sadly, the North Dakota State fencing team had to disband because of inflation. The cost of barbed wire nearly doubled since Covid-19./s
comment o’ the day(so far) from the WAPO comments section: "Oz just conceded to Fetterman. Now he can click his heels three times and say, “there’s no place like New Jersey!”
Five things that surprised me?
(Numbers 2-5: See Number 1.)
Top 1 thing that surprised me this morning:
Dems so conditioned to failure and so encumbered to a mythical ethical press they refuse to understand their historic victory against precedent and what it means for 2024.
I heard Fetterman sent a gift certificate for a veggie tray from Wegman’s (a real store) in Newark and a Steelers jersey as a consolation prize.
DeSantis’ handy victory – accompanied by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s re-election against Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) – doesn’t only remove Florida from immediate Democratic aspirations. It also strengthens DeSantis’ claim as pretender to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, setting up a fight with the state’s most famous Republican resident.
Although several races elsewhere in the country were a disappointment, New Mexico’s Dems did better than expected, too! In particular, that southern House seat, CD2, seems in the can for Dem Gabe Vasquez, taking down the ever-trumpy Yvette Herrell. And my own (new!) NM House rep, originally appointed, got elected in her own right as the first black representative coming from the Far Northeast Heights.
For the first time since I moved to Albuquerque, I have both a state Senator and state Representative who are Dems! (and I didn’t even have to move to a more liberal area!)
Yeah, they’re “liberal.” But only if you think Fox is too middle of the road!
Silver: “it’s the machine’s fault, Sherman.”
…Except that, Nate, you built the fucking model and decided what all the inputs were. You can’t just set it and forget it, you keep tweaking the model as needed to get to better accuracy.
If anyone out there thinks that Quevin McCarthy will be able to control the crazy if the Goopers win the House is, well, crazy.
Here in Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, longtime progressive Peter DeFazio (co-founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus) retired after 36 years in Congress. In 2020, he handily defeated Alek Skarlatos, a callow GOP tool with no experience as an elected official, whose claim to fame was having stopped a knife attack on a French train.
This time, he was defeated by Val Hoyle, Oregon’s Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, former state House Majority Leader. In the days before and after ballots were mailed, a GOP dark money group, “Green Oregon,” sent out mailers lambasting Hoyle and supporting the Pacific Greens candidate, Mike Beilstein. Beistein and the Greens promptly disavowed this underhanded ploy, Beilstein expressing support for Hoyle.
The dirty tricks attempt to peel off the left’s support of Hoyle failed. Nice to know that enough folks saw through this or preferred to vote for the far better candidate who was actually in play in the race. News from Oregon’s 4th District…
Oregon’s new 6th District went to a Democrat. But the Democratic challenger from the left who brought down Oregon’s blue dog Congressman Kurt Schrader in the May primary was defeated, flipping the seat to the GOP.
Thanks for that.
It can always be worse, and often is – SMH – so I should stop despairing that excellent candidates lost because so many Americans are ignorant and selfish, and start cheering that some excellent candidates triumphed, and others may still do so.
Too soon to give up on America.
I hate to say this because it’s the wrong thing to do, but the Michigan legislature should gerrymander the congressional districts to the greatest extent possible. This is what the GOP does.
Nu?
Though if Rep. Boebert is out (and perhaps a few other crazies), that could make his job…easier. Even so, there’s no possible world where he actually succeeds.
They just created an independent commission to redraw the lines last cycle, so it seems to be working as intended, having finally overcome the GOP’s tortuous gerrymandering of the past half century. I would doubt that the MI legislature has any interest in undoing that at this point.
