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Thanks.
That’s sad honestly.
Acton beats Ramaswami for Ohio ggovernor, The first Democrat elected in 20 years.
Amy acton has won in Ohio!
Amazing and awesome. Ohio finally a Dem Governor.
Whoa!
NBC has now projected TX for Talarico.
That brings the Senate to 50-50.
Uff da! Big flip there!
OK, I can now officially go to bed.
ramaswami is such a slime. He’s got to leave a trail when he’s wiggling under his rock. Go Amy Acton!
Imagine what it was like a hundred years ago when everything was by telegraph and for the results you had to wait for somebody to post a broadsheet at the office.
Ugh. AP just switched to Mike Johnson speaking who just said, “We don’t have a monarch.”
The irony it burns.
El-Sayed had said something recently about really connecting with voters during his trips to the UP. I thought he was being overly optimistic at the time, but I guess not!
Summary
It’s nice to see the big Dem wins but I don’t think this is any kind of generational recalibration of US politics. Rather, it’s simply more pendulum action… but this time it’s moving toward us! Hooray!
Except that, until we have 3 or more parties and a system that makes them all viable, we will only continue to play the see-saw game and never fully progress (or fully regress, I suppose).
Winning a big see-saw battle (like this one in 2026) is like a drug. It feels great and it feels historic and game-changing but it really never is. You get an outstanding temporary high but once it wears off you feel even worse. We need a true multi-party system.
I recall reading one of Harry Turtledove’s alternate history novels where Robert E. Lee is hunched over a telegraph ticker waiting to find out if he’s been elected president of the Confederacy.
This night is looking very good.
I have to stay up for El Sayed and Jocelyn Benson.
You could’ve waited a week before bringing everyone down. Let them have the win.
Decision Desk says Adam Hamilton has defeated Republican Roger Marshall in the Kansas Senate race
— they just called the House seat for R Tenney. 58.8 to 41.1 with 75.7% of votes in. Ah well, I knew I was dreaming. And looking at the overall balance I can still go to bed happy. Which I’ll need to do pretty soon, I’m falling asleep; though I may try to hang on till they call Texas.
As soon as they announce a Senate majority for Democrats, I’m gonna start cooking a batch of Tex-Mex beef enchiladas with chili gravy. Anybody want some? 
Moderating
Again, keep this to election day. Find another thread for this type of post.