Mother Jones: Tonight Was One of the Great Political Blowouts of Modern History
Kevin Drum November 6, 2018 11:49 PM
Unemployment is at 3.7 percent, a level so low we’ve reached it only once before in my entire lifetime. GDP is growing 3 percent per year. Wages are rising nicely. Inflation is tooling along at a very modest 2 percent. Manufacturers’ shipments are healthy. Consumer spending is strong and household debt is low. Aside from the dotcom boom, consumer confidence is at a 40-year high.
And yet, Republicans are going to lose three dozen seats in the House and cede control to the Democrats. Has any party ever done so badly in the middle of such strong economic performance?
I guess there was LBJ in 1966, after passing the Civil Rights Act and losing the South forever. But that’s about it.
In raw numbers this might not be the biggest wave election ever, but once you account for the economy it’s one of the great political blowouts of modern history. Donald Trump will never admit it, but don’t be fooled. He was crushed and repudiated tonight in a way that few presidents ever have been.
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THIS is how it needs to be promoted!
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And here in PA, Democratic voter registration outnumbers Republican by about 800,000, yet when 2018 began, the congressional contingent was actually 13 (R) - 5 (D). Conor was able to win a special election this past March that shifted it to 12 (R) - 6 (D)... And now with the redistricting, we were able to pick up 3 more (D) seats so we are closer to what we should be here - 9 (D) - 9 (R). The 3 seats that we picked up are all suburban women and they will be the first female members of congress from PA since Alyson Schwartz resigned her seat to run for governor back in 2014.
And what is even more significant is that there will now be ~100 WOMEN (new and returning) in the U.S. House.
As Joe Biden would say - "It's a big f****ng deal"
The south can be ours. But it will need a lot of work to get rid of the gerrymandering and voter suppression. The votes ARE there.
And I know he won't say a word about Montana & Tester
and also because a judge there just blocked the Keystone Pipeline - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142197864was in Montana!
after Reid invoked the "nuclear option".
(of course Turtle used it again to ram through Kavanaugh but at least we have a Circuit court firewall that has generally been working well so far)
& BRDS!
I wanted to be the first to say, "Thanks Obama!" for that glowing economy report in the article. That's what I get for that stupid sleeping habit thing.
If we hadn't produced a tsunami, Repugs' cheats would have kept them in control of the House and lots and lots of state offices. It's about time reports like this motherjones article are acknowledging how big Tuesday was.
BLUE TSUNAMI Changed Everything!
I have to go do that sleeping habit thing soon now.
That blue tsunami means we CAN stop that insane march into fascism.
And that means we can all get some sleep now and then.
lambasting what he called the "pundits" (although obviously he is one too... ) and even showing clips from CNN and Faux of people dismissing what happened election day.
Here is a tweet with the segment -
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TheBeat w/Ari Melber
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"Americans have not been going back-and-forth when deciding which party should win the White House"
"Voters preferred a Democrat for President in 6 of the last 7 Presidential races" - @AriMelber …
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11:03 AM - Nov 9, 2018
for another poster!! I knew I had seen it but couldn't find the thread again.
I have PTSD from previous election mischief going back to 2000.
I still don't fully trust our elections 
I hoped and knew it was possible. I just could trust it wouldn't be tampered with.
This is how we have to do it - up and down the ballot. From the "lowly school board" to the city councils and mayors to the county commissioners, judges from the municipal levels through to the state Supreme Courts, and everything within the legislative and state executive branches.
THIS is "taking America back".
were broken. That means a state with a Democratic Governor has less of a chance of getting a veto override of the egregious GOP legislation!
Way to go, everyone who turned out to vote!!!! (including ME!) 
And will post this here -
Since the brags about his endorsements "winning" are bunk.
That works for me.
on election night "bittersweet". It took me a day or so to process everything before I could fully rejoice. 
many focussed on the "marquis" races and essentially dismissed the "bread and butter" races that might not have the media's definition of "star" power, but have some real power nonetheless.
This literally was an up and down the ballot effort AND many of the newly-elected folks are in an office for the very first time, so they will be building their "street cred" when it comes time for re-election or for moving to other/higher offices.
I just posted this in another thread about what happened here in PA regarding breaking a super-majority, which is significant -
I had finally found the data of what actually happened with our legislative state-wide races. Given that we re-elected our (D) governor by double digits for another 4-year term, which would overlap with the 2020 census, and given that we are clawing back our seats in the state Assembly, we will hopefully be in much better shape than we were in 2010, when we were slimed by the astroturf teabaggers, which inturn brought about extreme state-wide and federal gerrymandering, and efforts to implement the RW ALEC agenda here, including this infamous utterance in 2012 by the state House's leader -
