Your opinion of the Blue Wave

Politics & Elections
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“This will be the election of Kavanaugh, the caravans, law and order, tax cuts, and common sense.” - DJT

He was right.

The party that opposed Kavanaugh did great. Senators in swing states who opposed Kav went 9-1. Swing state senators who supported him went 0-1.

Huge victory for the party that didn’t piss its pants about the caravan. Nobody likes pants pissers.

Huge victory for the party of law an order and not the party with criminals from top to bottom.

Major rejection of tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich.

Huge win for common sense.

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Love it!

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Nate Silver: “Democratic candidates for the House in 2018 received almost as many votes as President Trump in 2016”, with charts! This is unprecedented. But is it a wave? “Of course it was.”

How big? Nate Silver: Personally, I’d rank the 2018 wave a tick behind both 1994, which represented a historic shift after years of Democratic dominance of the House, and 2010, which reflected an especially ferocious shift against then-President Barack Obama after he’d been elected in a landslide two years earlier. But I’d put 2018 a bit ahead of most other modern wave elections, such as 2006 and 1982. Your mileage may vary.

In another important respect, however, the 2018 wave was indisputably unlike any other in recent midterm history: It came with exceptionally high turnout. Trump’s Base Isn’t Enough | FiveThirtyEight

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It’s a wave, no question, and Republicans are thanking many varieties of deities for the senate map of 2018.

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If I could, I’d change my vote from “Bust” to “Wave.”

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Just FYI, the wave has still yet to crest:

“BREAKING: In a huge victory, Democrat @PamforPA has flipped a key state Senate seat in the special election in #SD37, a district largely controlled by Republicans for the last 50 years. The loss is seen as a sign that support for Republicans in the heartland is eroding. #PamForPA”