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Demovictory9

(32,468 posts) Sun Nov 11, 2018, 03:06 AM Nov 2018

All of the hand-wringing about the "blue wave" not being large enough are looking silly now.

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All of the hand-wringing about the "blue wave" not being large enough are looking silly now. (Original Post) Demovictory9 Nov 2018 OP

Yep, it was a blue wave. Some just don't want it known for some reason. brush Nov 2018 #1

No shit. Glamrock Nov 2018 #2

It sure as hell was/is! some of us Cha Nov 2018 #3

It WAS a wave but once again we let them muddy the narrative. Squinch Nov 2018 #4

Never write a story until it is finished Maeve Nov 2018 #5

ITS A TSUNAMI WAVE hehehe! Sunlei Nov 2018 #6

7 additional governor's offices (as of now), 23 STATES Hortensis Nov 2018 #7

+1 dalton99a Nov 2018 #9

much Love to millennial activists * & groups like TURNOUT PROJECT ** Sunlei Nov 2018 #8

Well we had people like Tapper and James Carville among others breathlessly telling us all night workinclasszero Nov 2018 #10

Trump lost. And it wasn't even close. workinclasszero Nov 2018 #11

Like a hurricane storm surge or a tsunami. . . DinahMoeHum Nov 2018 #12

It was the biggest Republican loss since the fallout over Nixon in 1974. OliverQ Nov 2018 #13

brush

(53,815 posts)

1. Yep, it was a blue wave. Some just don't want it known for some reason.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 03:21 AM

Nov 2018

Makes you wonder why. I get why the repugs don't but what about the rest?

Glamrock

(11,802 posts)

2. No shit.

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 03:33 AM

Nov 2018

The "the sky is falling" posts here on election night were fucking ridiculous. At 8pm no less.

Cha

(297,496 posts)

3. It sure as hell was/is! some of us

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 03:37 AM

Nov 2018

knew from the get.. and I don't ever pay attention to the US M$Media******.

Retweeted! thanks Demo!

Squinch

(50,989 posts)

4. It WAS a wave but once again we let them muddy the narrative.

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Sun Nov 11, 2018, 08:42 AM

Nov 2018

Maeve

(42,287 posts)

5. Never write a story until it is finished

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 08:54 AM

Nov 2018

Or, as a wizard once said "For even the very wise cannot see all ends"

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

6. ITS A TSUNAMI WAVE hehehe!

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 09:01 AM

Nov 2018

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

7. 7 additional governor's offices (as of now), 23 STATES

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 09:06 AM

Nov 2018

with Democratic governors that will not be gerrymandered to put Republicans who lose in power.

How about THIS:

Governing.com: Democrats claimed six new “trifectas” in Tuesday’s elections, winning the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature in Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico and New York.

This brings the total number of Democratic trifectas to 14, the others being California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Oregon and Washington state.

Democrats also ended 4 Republican trifectas in Kansas, Michigan, New Hampshire and Wisconsin. Republicans retain complete control in 22 states, but it's a big advance. GA is still open, of course.

dalton99a

(81,565 posts)

9. +1

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 09:43 AM

Nov 2018

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

8. much Love to millennial activists * & groups like TURNOUT PROJECT **

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 09:10 AM

Nov 2018

* many who delayed college start to fight for the Votes!

** "Progressive Turnout Project" Chicago, Il. 60661

4 mail contacts and 3 personal calls to me in Texas, to make sure I knew where to vote, early vote start dates & had transportation. Progressive turnout project registered 1 million! NEW voters in Texas area alone!!

Thanks Obama

https://www.turnoutpac.org/

Connecting with Voters and Getting Democrats to the Polls

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)

10. Well we had people like Tapper and James Carville among others breathlessly telling us all night

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 09:50 AM

Nov 2018

NO BLUE WAVE ELECTION FOR THE DEMOCRATS....endlessly!

You know the "liberal press" doing the job they usually do, the assholes!!!

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)

11. Trump lost. And it wasn't even close.

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Sun Nov 11, 2018, 10:04 AM

Nov 2018

By Joe Scarborough November 9 at 6:06 PM

President Trump lost. And it was not even close.

On Tuesday, the president and his allies paid a high political price for their preposterous claims about caravans filled with leprosy, Middle Eastern terrorists, Hispanic “breeders” and gang invaders. Those lies cost the hobbled president every bit as much as his vicious attacks on the free press and his foul campaign calls to imprison political adversaries. Despite all claims to the contrary, Trump Republicans faced a bitter reckoning at the polls in dozens of congressional races and hundreds of legislative battles across the United States.

Trumpism proved to be so politically toxic that Republicans likely took their worst shellacking in U.S. House races since the darkest days of Watergate. Trump Republicans lost at least 30 seats in Congress and took a beating nationally. In state legislative races, the tally was even worse, with more than 300 Republican legislators watching their political careers get washed away by the blue wave.

In states such as Nevada, GOP politicians paid a particularly heavy price for their fealty to the former Manhattan Democratic donor. As the Nevada Independent’s Jon Ralston noted Thursday, his state’s six Republican constitutional officers were reduced to one. Nevada no longer has a Republican representing it in the U.S. Senate and just one in the House of Representatives, and Trump’s party also lost seats in the Nevada Assembly and in the state Senate. As Ralston noted with a dash of understatement: “That is a wave.”

If enough of the remaining undecided races break their way, Democrats could soon control a larger majority in the House than Republican Dennis Hastert ever did during his eight years as speaker. Trump’s sagging fortunes also allowed Democrats to pick up more governorships than either party had done since the GOP landslide of 1994.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-lost-and-it-wasnt-even-close/2018/11/09/7e7e7986-e45c-11e8-b759-3d88a5ce9e19_story.html
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This is from Joe Scar a republican! And yet all night on the "liberal media" they were telling me there was no blue wave! Go figure.

DinahMoeHum

(21,803 posts)

12. Like a hurricane storm surge or a tsunami. . .

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 10:19 AM

Nov 2018

. . .it's not one wave but a series of them. Subsequent ones after the first one strikes can be more damaging because each subsequent wave picks up more debris from the first strike.

And it's not until it all recedes that one can fully assess the impact.

Right now, Blue Wave 2018 has not fully receded yet. There are the recounts in GA and FL going on, the winner of the US Senate race in AZ still to become official, PLUS a run-off US Senate election in Mississippi on November 27. And those are just the big-ticket races.

Stay tuned and stay vigilant.

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)

13. It was the biggest Republican loss since the fallout over Nixon in 1974.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 10:54 AM

Nov 2018

It's sad that we didn't do better in the Senate or Georgia/Florida Governor races, but this was a catastrophe for the GOP.

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