For The First Time In 30 Years.....
I'm going to be represented by a Democrat in Congress! I grew up in a reliably democratic district and took it for granted that democrats always won-until I moved. For the last 30 years I was in the middle of a solidly republican district that was configured to be a safe seat for the GOP. Not anymore folks! New Jersey's congressional districts were drawn by a bi-partisan commission during the Christie administration to have 6 Democratic seats and 6 Republican seats. As of now NJ's delegation is 10-2 in favor of the democrats. Three "safe" republican seats flipped. A fourth, that I didn't think would ever see a democrat within spitting distance hasn't been called as of this morning. That's how close the state is to going 11-1. This is a big deal-but then again we know Trump here in NJ better than most.
Looking nationally, 229 seats in Congress is a pretty healthy majority that brings control of the committees, the agenda and the budget. There's a democrat elected to Congress in Oklahoma of all places. Kansas has a democratic governor and democrats took back the only seat they've held in recent history from Yoder. New Gingrich's old seat is going democratic. Goodbye Dana Rohrabacher. Adios Steve Sessions. Sayonyara Dean Heller. Don't let the screen door hit you Scott Walker. A lot of good came out of last night.
When things are looking bleak you want everything to get better right away. Things don't work like that. The economy is reasonably good. Partisan gerrymandering is an incredible burden to overcome. The rural/urban-suburban divide is troubling. There's a lot of obstacles out there. But the number of votes cast across the board significantly favored democrats. Serious inroads were made. Right foot-left foot, keep marching in the right direction. At the end of the day, Trump is still there, albeit seriously de-fanged, to remind us to keep pushing. We didn't get into this mess in one election cycle and one election cycle wasn't going to get us out of it-but we made a lot of progress. Things are about to get seriously interesting in Washington. Meanwhile, I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that my republican district just sent a Democrat to represent us in DC. Hallelujah.
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New Jersey now IS 11-1: The NJ 3rd District race has just flipped in favor of Democrats
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211389677
rocktivity
those Ocean County towns are probably doing some serious soul searching right now. All of the "refugees" who fled Essex & Bergen counties and the denizens of all of those Leisure Village retirement communities are wondering where they can go next to escape the democratic plague that keeps following them! 
NEVER forget that he was NOT elected by a MAJORITY of the voters.
rocktivity
I am jealous unfortunately my gerrymandered district still stayed red although we got super close to flipping and my city all turned blue! So we are a darker shade of blue which is awesome.
