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[mercuryblues]

Last edited Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:00 PM - Edit history (2)

We ousted some of the worst people from seats of power:

Nevada: Dean Heller lost to Jacky Rosen ..…..Flipped to blue
Wisconsin: Scott Walker Lost to Tony Evers.. Flipped to blue
Illinois Bruce Rauner lost to JB Pritzker...………………...Flipped to blue
Kansas Kris Kobach lost to Laura Kelly...…………………..Flipped to blue
CA Dana Rohrabacher lost to Harley Rouda………..Flipped to blue
TX Pete Sessions lost to Colin Allred …………………..Flipped to blue
VA Dave Brat lost to Abigail Spanberger Flipped to blue
Claudia Tenney lost to Anthony Brindisi Flipped to blue
Kim Davis HAHAHAHAHA


Governorships: We flipped 7 governorships:


Illinois:JB Pritzker
New Mexico: Lujan Grisham
Nevada:Steve Sisolak
Kansas: Kansas: Laura Kelly
Wisconsin: Tony Evers
Michigan: Gretchen Whitmer
Maine: Janet Mills

Maine. Even though LePage was termed out, R's usually win the state because of 3rd party voters. Which usually splits the liberal vote, leaving the R in the winner's seat. But not this year!


House seats flipped.

New York's 11th: Max Rose defeated Republican Dan Donovan

New York's 19th: Democrat Antonio Delgado edges out incumbent Republican Rep. John Faso

Pennsylvania's 5th: Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon won against Republican Pearl Kim

Pennsylvania's 6th: Democrat Chrissy Houlahan beat out Republican Greg McCauley for the open seat.

Pennsylvania's 7th: Democrat Susan Wild defeated Republican Marty Nothstein for the open seat.

Pennsylvania's 14: Republican Guy Reschenthaler topped Democrat Bibiana Boerio

Minnesota's 2nd: Democrat Angie Craig unseated Republican incumbent Jason Lewis

Minnesota's 3rd: Dean Phillips defeated incumbent Republican Erik Paulsen.

Kansas' 3rd: Democrat Sharice Davids defeated Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder.

Colorado's 6th: Democrat Jason Crow unseated incumbent Republican Mike Coffman.

Texas' 32nd: Democratic ex-NFL player Colin Allred beat incumbent Republican Pete Sessions.

Oklahoma's 5th: Democrat Kendra Horn defeated Republican Steve Russell.

Arizona's 2nd: Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick topped Republican Lea Marquez Peterson.

Iowa's 1st: Democrat Abby Finkenauer unseated Republican incumbent Rod Blum.

Iowa's 3rd: Democrat Cindy Axne defeated incumbent Republican David Young.

Illinois' 14th: Democrat Lauren Underwood unseated incumbent Republican Randy Hultgren.

Illinois' 6: Democrat Sean Casten defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Peter Roskam.


VA10 Jennifer Wexton (D) flipped to blue

VA07 Abigail Spanburger (D) flipped to blue

VA02 Elaine Luria flipped to blue

State legislatures:

New Hampshire: Dems won control of the house and Senate, with an R gov.

Colorado: Won the Senate, kept control of House and won the Governorship with Jared Polis

Connecticut: Dem's regained the Seanate and picked up more seats for the House. Governpr's race to close to call

Maine Turned the state blue. Picked up the Senate, retained the House and won the governorship

New York: gained control in the Senate. From what I understand many of the D's who voted with the R's are gone. And there are
enough of solid D's elected to overcome the D's that vote with the Rs

Minnesota house flipped to blue

So we didn't get the tsunami, but we definitely got the wave.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Don't leave out New Mexico's 3rd.

Deb Haaland, another Native American, won last night. The former office holder, Steve Pearce, resigned the seat to run for Governor, and was soundly beaten by Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Anyway, that's another House seat flipped from red to blue.

[mercuryblues]

3. Major accomplishment

But according to Ballotpedia:

This seat became open when incumbent Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) announced she was running in New Mexico's 2018 gubernatorial election. The National Republican Congressional Committee selected this district as one of its top 36 targets for the midterm elections.

Haaland's republican challenger was Janice Arnold-Jones.

Pearce lost to Grisham for governor. He vacated his seat to run for governor, leaving it open. The republican won it 50.5 to 49.55

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Considering the entire lower two-thirds of this state is pretty strongly Republican,

that was just barely a win. Hopefully next time a Dem will take that district.

[mercuryblues]

8. yup

That is what I say. Those seats should have been easy peasy for a republican to win. Many were neck and neck.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. It matters a great deal which specific state is the one being looked at.

I live in northern New Mexico, so I certainly cannot speak for the rest of the state. But Susana Martinez, a Republican, became governor in 2010. She was first elected as a backlash against Bill Richardson. Foolish backlash, in my opinion, although I only moved to this state in 2008 and recognize that there's a lot I don't know. Also, her opponent in that election was Diane Denish who'd been lt gov under Richardson, and it was the antipathy to him (which I honestly don't understand, don't know where it came from) that got Martinez elected. Four years later the Democrats managed to select (in a five way primary) a man whose father had been Governor of the state, and quite frankly (and disturbingly in my opinion) such connections matter vastly more than actual ability to govern. He lost resoundingly.

Meanwhile, one of our Senators is Tom Udall. That last name should look familiar. His father was Stewart Udall. I've met Tom several times through my intermittent political activism (and he always remembers who I am which is flattering) and he's not only a Good Guy and a decent Senator, but perhaps more to the point he doesn't ruffle feathers. He was an early prospect for Governor but decided not to go for that. I have no idea if he simply prefers being Senator, or exactly what. I don't think he has further political aspirations, and if he does he's doing nothing about them.

Another digression: whoever becomes the nominee in 2020 needs to start building a national recognition very soon. In the past two years I've seen various names offered. Some I already know, others I either don't know or just barely recognize. And I'm someone who pays more attention than the average voter.

Here's hoping that over the next two years Democrats make a very strong case to the country at large as to why they need to elect Democrats at all levels.

[Dave in VA]

2. Virginia flipped seats

VA02 Luria (D) flipped to blue
VA07 Spanburger (D) flipped to blue
VA10 Wexton (D) flipped to blue

NONE flipped to the Rs

[mercuryblues]

4. Thanks. I updated the op

I really wanted to put all the wins/flips together to show we did slightly better than expected, but not as good as we hoped. There are still some to close to calls that may take weeks to tally.


the media is not paying attention to this as a whole. We took back the house, as expected. The senate? No, but we hoped. Sure some asshole are still standing, a few of those will be forced to resign. Hopefully sooner, rather than later. We must also not forget that many of the R's that held their seats barely did so, in heavy republican districts.


We gained 5/6 state legislatures, which will be important when redistricting maps are made.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. we had the tsunami

The blue tsunami slammed into the red wall and was broken down to a wave. If it had been just a blue wave, we'd be talking about a few ripples now.

Don't underestimate the size of the artificial wall of gerrymandering, voter purges, vote suppression, and 24 / 7 / 365 propaganda. It's a big relief to see all the Blue work was enough to breach that wall.

[mercuryblues]

10. Yes, yes, yes

[llmart]

11. Yes, it was a tsunami.

Dems - let's not downplay what a historic election win we had. We always shoot ourselves in the foot by not playing this up. Think about how the Repubs would portray it if the tables were turned. They would be spouting superlatives left and right.

We did a wonderful job across the nation. Now on to 2020!

[Jersey Devil]

7. We flipped seats in SC, OKLA, TX, GA, FLA KS, NV

Kansas and South Carolina? lol