YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: The blue wave ran into Trump’s red wall.
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November 7, 2018
MY USA TODAY COLUMN ON THE ELECTIONS: Election results 2018: Forget the blue wave and behold the purple puddle.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: We Are Never, Ever, Ever, Campaigning Together and Much, Much More. “What a night. I slept in 20 minute increments most of the night/morning but I caught the most shocking part of the election live because it happened early: Fox News made a call that the Democrats won the House around 9pmET. WHY? How many people were still voting? At the very least the west coast voters were still going to the polls. At the time, the Democrats had only picked up 2 seats, can you imagine hearing that on your way to the polls if you live west of New York City? What a horrible, horrible decision FNC, shame on you. Rumor is the never-Trumpers run the news division at the network. Indeed.”
THE INSTA-WIFE: The Senate, Unfairness, and the Kavanaugh Effect.
WEIRD THAT FEMINISTS AREN’T MORE EXCITED ABOUT TENNESSEE’S FIRST WOMAN SENATOR: Marsha Blackburn wins Tennessee’s US Senate race: 4 takeaways on her historic victory.
Plus:
Tennessee Democrats fielded their best candidates for governor and U.S. Senate in a dozen years. And what did they get in return?
A blowout loss by nearly 20 percentage points in the race for governor and a not-quite-as-bad loss of around 10 points for U.S. Senate.
Not even Bredesen, the last Democrat to have any statewide office in Tennessee, could turn around the party’s statewide fortunes, particularly in rural counties.
Bredesen won many of these rural counties, particularly in Middle and West Tennessee, during his 2002 victory over Republican Van Hilleary. He won all of the state’s 95 counties in his 2006 re-election.
And yet this time, when it came to Bredesen’s race for U.S. Senate, Blackburn won many of these same counties with more than 70 percent of the vote.
As the piece notes, Bredesen was leading until Dianne Feinstein’s late hit set off the Kavanaugh craziness. Kavanaugh also probably cost Donnelly, Heitkamp, and Nelson their seats. Without that from Feinstein, the Dems might have taken the Senate.
UPDATE: From the comments: “Oh no. This will lead to yet another Taylor Swift song about a man disappointing her.”
CURRENT SENATE RESULTS: MAP. Although it doesn’t appear to reflect Bill Nelson’s concession in Florida, reported below.
THIS IS TOO BAD: Scott Walker loses bid for third term in Wisconsin. But a third term is hard to pull off.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN ON THE ELECTIONS: Election results 2018: Forget the blue wave and behold the purple puddle.
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JOHN ELLIS: The Left Is Normalizing Hatred. “It’s frightening that it’s okay for women to write articles about how they hate men.”
I WOULD FAVOR A LAW INFORMING JURIES THAT THEY CAN ALWAYS REFUSE TO CONVICT IF THEY BELIEVE A CONVICTION WOULD BE UNJUST: Federal Judge Advocates Jury Nullification After Being Shocked by Overzealous Child Pornography Prosecution.
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME:
● Shot: Beto O’Rourke wins on Election Day…even if he loses his race, Reuters says.
—Headline, Fox News, last night.
● Chaser: How [Wendy] Davis wins by losing.
—Headline, the Politico, June 22, 2014.
THERE IT IS! Blue check libs triggered by ‘Senate popular vote’ inequities (Whaaat?). “Ezra Klein made the ‘House popular vote’ hypothetical on Monday, and that approach is even more ridiculous when applied to the U.S. Senate.”
KEITH ELLISON WINS MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL RACE AMID ALLEGATIONS FROM AN EX-GIRLFRIEND THAT HE ONCE PHYSICALLY ABUSED HER.
Or as Jim Geraghty tweets, “ONCE AGAIN, KEITH ELLISON BEATS SOMEONE.”
Heh.™
THREE TERM DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BILL NELSON HAS CONCEDED THE RACE TO GOV. RICK SCOTT.
YOU HAD ONE JOB: Or perhaps I had one job. I seem to have made it insufficiently clear why it was very important we not lose the house.
Yes, yes, I know, “but we got the Senate.” Fine. It’s not a complete disaster.
OTOH this is how I see it:
The dems get two years to hide whatever inky stuff has been going one with the FBI/CIA. After another two years that swamp might be permanent.
Trump is by nature a deal maker. After the first two government shut downs, he’ll meet them halfway. This will wreck our economy and yep his presidency with it. As they did with Bush in 2006, they now have a chance to wreck the economy and have it blamed on the sitting president.
Border security? What border security? Moar Dem voters, citizenship being insignificant.
Seriously, yeah Judges. Not all is lost. But this is bad, very bad. We failed to beat the margin of fraud. Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe Trump won in 16 because they seriously underestimated him.
Yeah, they threw a lot of money at this. But let’s be real, if they can win the House on promises to raise our taxes and throttle our energy production and, oh, yeah, impeach the president that finally got the economy going? We need to up our game, and somehow we need to clean up vote fraud. Which is now infinitely harder to do, since the loons got the power. No, I’m not giving up. But this is a heck of a corner we’ve got ourselves painted into.
I’m going to have two fingers of Devil’s Cut and go to bed. Tomorrow it’s back to the trenches.
REPUBLICAN DAN CRENSHAW, TARGET OF ‘SNL’ JOKE, WINS TEXAS HOUSE SEAT.
UPDATE: Crenshaw “just took the stage at his party in Houston and immediately addressed the SNL joke. ‘It’s been an interesting last 72 hours for us,’ he said. He said people have been asking if he was offended. ‘I’m from the SEAL team so we don’t really get offended,’” Emily Foxhall of the Houston Chronicle tweets.
IT’S DEJA WENDY ALL OVER AGAIN: Beto O’Rourke’s $69 Million Couldn’t Defeat Ted Cruz.
Flashback: Wendy Davis lost badly. Here’s how it happened.
Update: Beto O’Rourke’s loss to Ted Cruz is a heartwarming reminder that money can’t buy elections.