Well, for all the talk about how 2020 is a better Senate map for the Democrats, they really needed to hold down their losses to have a good shot at taking back the chamber in two years. Let’s say Scott holds on and the Republicans take AZ and NV, you’d be looking at a 55-45 Senate.
In 2020, you have one seat almost certain to revert to the Republicans (Doug Jones in Alabama), meaning you’d need seven pick-ups or six plus the Vice Presidency. Go ahead and look at the map of Senators up for election in 2020 and tell me where you see six Democratic pick-ups happening.
As a non-American, I don’t know how all this system works in the US, like the difference between The Senate and Congress, and what all else people were potentially voting on (various propositions and whatnot).
What I would like to know is if “flipping the house” occurred, and if not, what were Dems actually after to achieve that? What impact will this actual result have going forward?
CNN says Trump called Nancy Pelosi to congratulate her!
Well, in retrospect I’m glad that the 538 model freaked us all out in the afternoon… because it makes this feel like a lot more of a victory than it otherwise would. Winning the house had to be job one, and by a pretty good margin.
It would be tough - maybe AZ, NC, ME, IA, CO, and one more (perhaps MT or WV with the right candidate). But I think they still have a chance at AZ today, which makes it less difficult.
Fake news!
Watching Beto’s concession speech.
He really is a good orator.
And he just told his supporters on live television, “I’m so fucking proud of you guys!” :eek:
Brian Williams now apologizing for the “F-bomb”.
Depends on whether the economy collapses in the next 18 months, as it’s predicted to do.
Dems also have a good chance to get NV today.
Flipping the House did occur. What this means: the majority party in the House (or the Senate, the other half of the legislative branch) controls the legislative agenda and constitutes a majority of each committee. Before tonight, the Democrats were outnumbered by 23 members – it looks like 35 seats are changing from a Republican representative to a Democrat, so the next 2 years we’ll see Democrat-driven legislation, and more importantly, investigations.
One other important thing is that all spending bills have to originate in the House. Which probably means no more new budgets, just a series of continuing resolutions for at least the next two years.
By my count, the Senate is 52-44, everything left is a potential Dem pickup except for Tester in MT.
Outstanding is: MT, NV, AZ, and the MS runoff which won’t be decided until later in the month.
Could be 56-44, 52-48 or somewhere in between.
More importantly is the 7-2 or 6-3 number on SCOTUS.
We haven’t seen the last of Beto. He’s got that special something. I wonder what he’ll pursue next? I imagine he can about write his… ummm… ticket.
Honestly, I don’t want him for President. Yet. But Vice? I can see that.
I’m sure the “F-bomb” gave Republicans the vapors. :rolleyes:
The Georgia law says that the governor must get above 50% to avoid a runoff. Kemp is up 52-46 and in any other state, the race would be called. The only question is whether he might be pulled down below 50.
Phoooey. Nelson has reportedly conceded the FL Senate race.
Kemp has got it pretty clearly.
We can debate his being the overseer of elections while he was running for election and disenfranchising people at every turn and the massive conflict of interest that entails tomorrow.
His election will forever be tainted by his efforts to block people of his state from voting. I’ll be sure to point it out in every thread from now on that deals with him.
He is a danger to democracy. Period.
Democracy’s a funny thing…
(Yeah, I know it’s by design, but…)
Thank you. That is good news indeed, and I hope it yields great results.
LOL!
You keep telling yourself that. Maybe it will ease the pain as Trump and McConnell continue to reshape the federal judiciary in their image.
So now winning the House is worthless/useless? I don’t think Republicans would’ve thought that way if they had won out.