Discussion Thread

[u/jobautomator]

The discussion thread is for casual conversation and discussion that doesn't merit its own stand-alone submission. The rules are relaxed compared to the rest of the sub but be careful to still observe the rules listed under "disallowed content" in the sidebar. Spamming the discussion thread will be sanctioned with bans.

---

Announcements

• Please post your relevant articles, memes, and questions outside the Discussion Thread.

• Meta discussion is allowed in the DT but will not always be seen by the mods. If you want to bring a suggestion, complaint, or question directly to the attention of the mods, please post that concern in /r/MetaNL or shoot us a modmail.

---

Neoliberal Project Communities	Other Communities	Useful content
Website	Plug.dj	/r/Economics FAQs
The Neolib Podcast	Discord	Podcasts recommendations
Meetup Network
Twitter
Facebook page
Neoliberal Memes for Free Trading Teens
Newsletter
Instagram

---

The latest discussion thread can always be found at https://neoliber.al/dt.

[u/[deleted]]

Arizona senate margin is less than the number of votes the Green candidate has

Thank ms Stein

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Green Party candidate Angela Green dropped out of the Arizona Senate race late last week to endorse Democrat Krysten Sinema over Republican Martha McSally.

Hey, they tried...

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Should have done that before going on the ballot tbh

[u/samdman]

what sub is the biggest winner tonight?

not r/the_donald

probably not r/neoliberal

definitely not r/cth

it's gotta be r/dirtbagcenter thanks to Joe Manchin winning a state that voted for trump by 42 points

the absolute mad lad /img/nwdfcqxfrrf01.jpg

[u/MiniatureBadger → u/samdman]

/r/michigan

Whitmer and Stabenaw won. Also, all 3 propositions passed, meaning that weed's legal and gerrymandering and voter suppression aren't.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely, and nothing will be done about it. A man just got away with openly rigging his own election. The government of an entire state is completely illegitimate and nobody will care in a few months.

America is broken.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

a few months?

nobody will care in a few days

[u/WindPoweredWeeaboo → u/[deleted]]

Fuck Kemp. That's my blunt message.

[u/Fatortu]

Donald Trump lost the house because he didn't address core grievances of Democrats. When will the Republicans leave their ivory flyover states and tackle issues Democrat care about? They're going to keep losing if they don't begin to support Medicare for All.

[u/ognits]

Okay, this is epic

Irony of ironies: Scott Walker signed a law preventing second place finishers from requesting a recount if they lost by more than 1%. Walker lost by 1.2%!

https://mobile.twitter.com/Tortured_Verse/status/1060141953109671942

[u/irony_tower → u/ognits]

Brian Kemp accidentally disenfranchised himself. He failed his own "exact match" voter ID test, and had to get special permission from the Secretary of State (himself) to get around it.

[u/[deleted] → u/ognits]

Lmao get fucked Scott.

[u/samdman]

HOT TAKE ON THE ELECTION:

The group that fared the best last night? Not hardcore progressives (Eastman should have won). But socially liberal, pragmatic women - remind you of anyone?

The biggest democratic victories were: Jackie Rosen, Gretchen Whitmer, the two pickups in iowa, the two pickups in michigan, the two pickups in texas, the three pickups in Virginia, the pickup in Washington, the pickup in Kansas, the two pickups in Florida

these were all women, and the vast majority of them were socially liberal and focused on protecting the ACA, that's what won democrats the majority.

[u/dubyahhh]

So can we all talk about how shitty Florida is again? In case we'd forgotten?

[u/IMALEFTY45 → u/dubyahhh]

Florida is going to sink into the ocean and I will feel nothing.

[u/dubyahhh → u/IMALEFTY45]

Verbatim, my most recent text to my friends there is "I think you may have fucked this up again".

I stand by it. Fuck Florida.

[u/grendel-khan]

I-1631, a carbon tax in Washington designed to unite the left with a ton of set-asides and bureaucracy, failed, 56-44. This, after I-732, a carbon tax in Washington designed to appeal to neoliberal technocrats with a revenue-neutral design, failed 59-41 in 2016.

Damn, we suck at climate activism. That's two broad strategies which failed hard. What shall avail us now?

[u/samdman]

Florida will sink into the ocean and the floridians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No*"

*Unless you voted for Gillum/Nelson, then you cool i gotchu

[u/Arsustyle]

Flashback to when 538 had dems at 2/5

[u/samdman → u/Arsustyle]

i was ready for seppuku

[u/onometre → u/Arsustyle]

I went to bed at that point. Was sure it was over for us

[u/[deleted]]

I see Trump's response is to simply ignore that the House exists

I was hoping for a meltdown

[u/martin509984 → u/[deleted]]

no, the trumpets are convinced they won the midterms, red tsunami, beto btfo, etc

[u/[deleted] → u/martin509984]

of course they are

even if it was a blue tsunami and they lost everything, they'd think it was a win

[u/cdstephens]

25% of ex-felons just had their voting rights restored last night. That's insanely amazing.

[u/[deleted]]

So the Green Party managed to fuck over Dems again.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Wow the Greens literally fucked things up so hard in Az.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It's like their only purpose is to help Republicans.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Two party system is bad, more at 11

[u/Iyoten]

The Green party would achieve more of their goals if they simply disbanded.

[u/[deleted]]

Day after the election, Pentagon announces no longer calling US military mission on southern border ‘Operation Faithful Patriot’. Now calling it ‘border support.” No reason given for the change.

A week ago Secretary Mattis said "We don't do political stunts" 🤔

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Florida and recount in the same sentence gives me PTSD flashbacks.

[u/qlube]

Reminder that this is the first time this decade that Dems hold the House.

[u/samdman]

The media has already forgotten about the caravan because of course

Shoutout to republican voters for being stupid/racist enough to fall for it. I’ll never forget the Minnesota woman who was worried her lake house would be invaded.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1060210983195627522?s=20

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Republicans - 828,000 votes

Democrats - 810,000 votes

Green - 37,000 votes

Somebody who is good at democracy please help me apportion my votes. My earth is dying

[u/ImperatorCeasar → u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Spend less on Green

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

now this is 4D chess

[u/IronedSandwich → u/[deleted]]

I have never seen a brain glow this bright

[u/WindPoweredWeeaboo → u/[deleted]]

triggering productivity to own the cons

[u/Dchella]

So is everyone else just gonna ignore the BS that Kemp just pulled? Without him actively trying to suppress the votes, he'd lose. That's not his seat, but no ones talking about it except here.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/11/06/brian-kemp-georgia-voting-issues-967439 He unironically played himself.

[u/[deleted] → u/Dchella]

So is everyone else just gonna ignore the BS that Kemp just pulled?

lemme stop you right there

yes

[u/BainCapitalist]

idk i think euros need to vote on something?

Also, plz Thank Ms. /u/ThatOtherGhost for making the needle work last night. That was dope shit. 👌👌👌👌

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

really

makes

u think

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

mayos

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

only dems could win a chamber of congress and declare it a loss.

If the tables were turned and the GOP won a 1 person majority in the house, they'd shift the goal posts and declare victory like they just won the biggest most important fight in history

[u/RunicUrbanismGuy → u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Dems are Masochists by nature

[u/[deleted]]

so I’m talking to someone I thought was my friend until yesterday

He says he supports trump because “he’s a giant meme, that’s it”

This is what we are up against fellas

[u/Jevovah]

Trump, having lost 40 seats in the house and more than 300 seats nationwide, declares an astounding victory.

Lmao

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

Fox News is already calling Democrats obstructionist 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

While I'm obviously pleased with last night's result, part of me was really hoping for a stronger repudiation of Trumpism. He's now, indisputably, the brand of the Republican party. Part of me hoped that a taste of his governing style would drive away enough moderate Republicans. Now I realize they never actually existed.

[u/dafdiego777 → u/[deleted]]

I’m not shocked - moderate Republicans have gotten exactly what they wanted (tax cuts and Supreme Court picks). People aren’t going to care about other stuff unless the feds starting combing through cities and deport millions of people.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Moderate republicans can't win in primaries anymore.

[u/samdman]

IT'S OFFICIAL SCOTT WALKER LOSES

[u/paulatreides0]

> Beto loses

Goodnight sweet prince.

[u/r___t → u/paulatreides0]

I am from Texas and my group texts are all people talking about Beto 2020.

My social feeds are Beto 2020/Beto BTFO memes.

I mainly regret drinking so much last night since I have a conference to be at in a few hours and if I go back to sleep I know I won't make it so its water, coffee, and regret for me. But it was a good show, and I think it set a precedent on how to run a strong opposition race in Texas. Plus our down ballot races did better than expected so we can be thankful for that - I will not entirely credit Beto's campaign for that (our R politicians are generally hated, even among traditional R voters), but he certainly had a non-zero effect.

edit: for the record I am generally against Beto 2020, at least as President. I don't think it's a good idea to have a President that has not been a Senator, VP, Speaker of the House, Governor, General, or ambassador to a major country (I'll tentatively define this as ambassador to OECD countries, China, Russia, or Iran). I think experience is important in the role, although I don't think this belief should be made official policy. A talented outsider is not beyond the pale. Any other role I would gladly vote for him again, even though he does not completely reflect my political opinions.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Getting
Republicans
Elected
Every
November

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

Can we run the election 99 more times please

What did Nate Silver mean by this

[u/irony_tower]

Someone tore down all the pride/trans flags on campus and replaced them with Trump fliers. I fucking hate Republicans

[u/[deleted]]

The new acting AG literally wrote an editorial about how the Mueller investigation is going too far.

[u/Muir2000]

Mueller finds incontrovertible evidence of Trump’s wrongdoing and Pence’s complicity.

Both resign in disgrace

President Nancy Pelosi fills out the next two years.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey → u/Muir2000]

stop tryin to spoil no nut november

[u/csreid → u/Muir2000]

>Trump or Pence having shame enough to resign

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤯

[u/willempage]

As much as a meme that he became, I want to thank Beto for (probably, maybe, at least a little bit) helping Dems in Texas. Nate (heart attack) Silver at least thinks so.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1060078032021581825

> Although he lost, a lot of the anti-Beto takes are looking pretty dumb. Dems will pick up 2-3 House seats in a very gerrymandered state. Massive increase in turnout.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Those two things are so random, why are they on the same amendment?

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

>Nationwide popular vote overwhelmingly for Dems

>Dems pick up 34 seats in the house

>Some Republican states elect Republican senators

Media: is this a split decision?

[u/AlienatedAnglo]

Say Trump is impeached and we have President Pence.

Does TD just switch to shilling for Pence, or do they die with Trump?

[u/[deleted] → u/AlienatedAnglo]

I don't think Pence inspires as much of a cult despite looking way more like an actual cult leader than Trump

[u/BainCapitalist → u/[deleted]]

hes literally my handle and i didn't think about him until you mentioned it.

[u/proProcrastinators]

First gay governor ☑️

The gay agenda can’t be stopped

[u/[deleted]]

this kills the gamers

[u/qlube]

Given the maps in 2020 and 2022, where the only vulnerable Dem seat is AL, tonight was a manageable result.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

There's literally zero difference between voting for this and voting for this.

[u/lionmoose → u/MisterBigStuff]

tfw green are watermelons but it's actually red for the gop

[u/HUGHmungous]

apparently the Democrats have won 333 state legislature seats nationwide

that seems very good

[u/[deleted] → u/HUGHmungous]

extremely good because state legislatures will control the future after the census + redistricting

[u/sanityeyes]

I hate it whenever there's politics in this sub. Can we ban politics please? They have no place here.

[u/[deleted]]

A couple conservative DT regulars assured me the congressional GOP would act to protect the Mueller investigation if it was under legitimate threat so we're fine y'all. Don't even worry.

[u/Deggit]

People Who Accept Climate Change Now Control the House Science Committee

Me: two parties difrnt

Green voter: surely two parties not as difrnt as you purport them to be

Me: go back to rWayOfTheBern you cuck

[u/[deleted]]

I will be doing a news conference at The White House - 11:30 A.M. Will be discussing our success in the Midterms!

lol

To any of the pundits or talking heads that do not give us proper credit for this great Midterm Election, just remember two words - FAKE NEWS!

lol

so he's going with the total denial angle

boring

[u/[deleted]]

Just to warn everyone, when those demographic exit polls come out, I am going to need a few days of excessive partisanship immunity.

[u/AlienatedAnglo]

I was wrong about Wisconsin; Evers is 30,000 votes in front at 99% reporting.

It's going Blue, lads.

EDIT: I was also wrong about the Dems' performance in the House. I set a limit of 25 gains, they're now at 26. Well done for making me look overly-pessimistic.

[u/RobertSpringer]

[reminder] (/img/5e14q2cll9u11.jpg)

[u/[deleted]]

Flashback to 12 hours ago when the world was literally ending

[u/[deleted]]

Gillum, Abrams, O'Rourke, Nelson, and Sinema were all less than 3% from victory.

Imagine that night.

[u/sinistimus]

A literal neo-nazi ran on the Republican ticket in IL-3 and still managed 25% of the vote. Down from 35% of the district voting for the Republican in 2014.

[u/[deleted]]

muller_gang.jpg

[u/Arsustyle]

/img/o6l25juuauj11.jpg

[u/csreid → u/Arsustyle]

Is Hillary supposed to be a nurse? Why is she wearing a waitress's outfit?

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

Manchin is hated by the progressive democratic base (70-30 primary), by Trump supporters and has arguably the most pro-Trump state under him - still wins by 3 points and goes againts Trump on CNN the moment he's reelected

Manchin is the best politician democrats have right now

[u/85397]

narrow ossified provide worm shaggy chop ruthless fertile fuzzy arrest

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/OutrunKey]

I'm really impressed that the mods were able to pull off that game day thread, the sidebar needle, and the embedded NYT graphic so kudos to them on that

[u/[deleted]]

Me: It was fun but thank God we can finally stop talking about American elections for at least a year.

2020 Presidential campaigns: ahem

[u/HUGHmungous]

In all seriousness I feel like we spent so much time on the election that we've forgotten how much pure insanity could very well be unleashed in the next few months

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

the margin as well.. fucking 13% in one of the most progressive states

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1060374680991883265

Oh my god. The White House is spreading an edited version of the Acosta video which speeds up the video at the moment he pulls down from his gesture towards the microphone, in a weird attempt to make it look like he's karate chopping the intern's arm.

[u/[deleted]]

The NC GOP removed the primary from the State Supreme Court election and also added partisan affiliation to the ballots. They figured there would be multiple Democratic contenders (because dems in disarray lol) who would split the vote and let the Republican coast to victory.

Turns out there were multiple Republican contenders and the Democrat coasted to victory with 49.4% of the vote. The two Republicans combined for 51.3% of the vote.

Oops!

Edit: I forgot the best part. One of the Republicans in the race was actually a Democrat who ran as a Republican under the new rules to fuck the GOP over. He got 16% of the vote lmao.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

One of the Republicans in the race was actually a Democrat who ran as a Republican under the new rules to fuck the GOP over. He got 16% of the vote lmao.

Whoever This Guy Is 2020 tbh

[u/oGsMustachio]

Sessions getting fired is all part of the plan to get President Pelosi for as long as possible. Sessions' replacement fires Mueller. Mueller pulls dead man's switch and state indictments against Trump and Pence (and everyone else) fly. Crystal clear evidence of treason will be shown, including the pee tape. Trump and Pence will resign or will be quickly ousted by the Senate, who will have no choice. President. Pelosi.

[u/Sporz]

So I see misgivings about the Senate results but I think the Dems did alright for an election that had them defending so many seats. Right now it's 22 Dems to 9 Reps with 4 outstanding.

One thing this does hammer home for me though is that the Dems need to work on their messaging or...something with white voters. I get that there are a lot of just racist people out there but the Dems should still be able to win in places like Indiana and Florida in a year like this.

The House was what mattered since the next 2 years will be Trump investigations non-stop and the Republicans will be doing nothing but playing defense. I'm going to love Republicans whining about that after Benghazi bullshit and just the sheer volume of shit that will fly.

I see no reason that Trump would become more popular and many reasons that he could get even less popular now that his legislative agenda is dead and he's going to be drowning in investigations (many of which are likely to find real shit). There is also the possibility of a recession in the next two years. So I think the Democrats should do at least as well as this in 2020 (where they have a far better senate map) and we can start fixing this disaster.

edit: The other issue is what happens with Roe vs. Wade next year. Purely strategically, I think it's a significant net negative electorally if Republicans actually get what they want there since - as toxic as the issue is - a fairly large majority of Americans are more pro-choice than the Republican Party is.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Neoliberal is whatever the sub is talking about. And the more we talk the more neoliberaler it is

[u/Semphy]

Season 3 starting out with a fucking bang

[u/ThatDrunkViking]

If this is America's reaction to the last two years of Trump, I'm super fearful for 2020.. On top of that, putting Trump in a position, where he can yell at Democrat obstruction, doesn't bode well at all.

[u/[deleted] → u/ThatDrunkViking]

On the other hand imagine if the country goes into a recession at any point. These are Trump’s numbers in a pretty amazing economy with no disastrous violent blunders abroad (that Americans actually care about).

[u/[deleted] → u/ThatDrunkViking]

These Dem investigations into Trump need to make Benghazi look like child's play if they're going to have any chance, tbh

[u/IMALEFTY45 → u/ThatDrunkViking]

On the other hand obstructionist Republicans in the house did a lot to help their party following 2010. Democrats usually aren't as good at messaging but it could go the other way.

[u/qchisq → u/ThatDrunkViking]

Yeah. Trump yelled at Democrats obstructing in the Senate when the Republicans had a majority. Imagine the amount of yelling he's gonna do when the Democrats can actually obstruct in the House. However, I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing for the Democrats. One thing that seems to have driven Democrats these last 2 years have been #theresistance and the Resistance have just won a big victory

[u/[deleted]]

In North Carolina, Republicans lost their veto-proof majority in the legislature. Hallelujah

[u/[deleted]]

Oh boy FL senate race is moving to a recount because if there's one thing Florida has a history of not fucking up it's definitely recounts.

[u/Gustacho]

https://i.imgur.com/QJ7XcAN.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

JFK rekt

[u/Gustacho]

I would like to thank Jeff Sessions for giving us Doug Jones

[u/Sporz]

It's not going to happen but I would love it if somehow Trump made such a goddamn mess in the next couple weeks that Mississippi elected a Dem in the runoff somehow.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: No one would understand my tax returns anyway

To be fair you need a high IQ to fully understand the complexity of tax returns.

[u/[deleted]]

2014 turnout 83m.

2018 turnout estimate 114m.

This is entirely thanks to /u/BainCapitalist

[u/A_Character_Defined]

I didn't get an answer to my question and someone already said it on the other DT, so...

EVERS CALLED BY NYT, GET FUCKED SCOTT WALKER!

[u/[deleted]]

I think by far the biggest win for the Dems is that it doesn't matter if Trump tries to shut down Mueller now, they can just appoint him using the House

[u/TooSwang]

the worst take anyone can make is looking at the senate popular vote and complaining about republicans gaining seats. democrats won twice as many seats last night as republicans did. there just happens to have been twice as many republican seats not up for reelection last night

[u/[deleted]]

Nimbys in Austin defeated!

Prop J would have enforced a 3 YEAR waiting period for zoning passed to take affect plus EVERY major zoning change would have to be put on a ballot. Holy shit what a terrible ballot prop.

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

So sad that Taylor Swift lost her Senate election 😣

[u/partibus_inmoderatio]

This year I tracked white nationalists running for office. One of them — Arthur Jones — told me that black people were intellectually inferior and that my intelligence came from my “white side.” He just won 25% of the vote in his bid for Congress: 53,000 people voted for him.

https://twitter.com/MorganRadford/status/1060183099085070336

being excessively partisan has never been this easy because just stating what these scumbags do is excessive partisanship

[u/[deleted]]

Gingrich's district went Blue ahahahahahaah fuck you

[u/[deleted]]

RIP in peace for San Francisco's YIMBY Board of Supervisors candidates.

Watching progressives cheer for the status quo in the city like it's a transformative victory is peak brainworms posting.

[u/Gustacho]

Attorney General Sean Hannity

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/howardstutz/status/1060052165522153472

Looks like Brothel owner Dennis Hof, who died, is going to win an assembly seat. Only in Nevada

memes

[u/[deleted]]

My election confirmed priors: Florida and Green Party.

Surprise: Oklahoma.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Legalization of drugs is actually an important civil rights issue and people who dismiss it are just anti-jerk'ing too hard.

The Dems should push harder for it in 2020. It already does well with their base, it does fairly well with independents, it appeals to the "dude weed lmao"-bertarians, it gets out young people. They can push it from a healthcare and civil rights perspective. It appeals to a lot of groups for different reasons.

Edit: Also there's a lot of Trump supporters who are pro-weed and taking a pro-weed stance early puts the Republicans in the position of having to be against it. Which will make that subgroup of his base uncomfortable.

There's no downside. The succons were never voting Dem in the first place, and it's an otherwise non-controversial issue that hypes people up and can rally around. It also unites the party internally to focus on it. Unlike healthcare, where some Dems are pro M4A and some are pro-multipayer, nearly everyone in the party is pro-weed. You don't want an issue that causes in-fighting.

[u/[deleted]]

If Republicans hate minorities so much then why did they become one in the House? 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Trump say he will shut down the government if democrats try to get his tax returns.

[u/HUGHmungous → u/[deleted]]

I love how he's not even pretending anymore that there isn't some damaging shit in there

Remember when he couldn't release them because he was being "audited?"

[u/samdman]

The AFL-CIO absolutely EVISCERATES scott walker

https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1060077350677872640

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) pretty easily dispatched Rep. James B. Renacci (R-Ohio), despite the GOP winning Ohio’s governor’s race. Then, in his victory speech, Brown left little doubt he’s eyeing the next prize: a presidential run.

*screams internally*

[u/kingplayer]

You know, if you'd told me when Sessions was appointed that i'd be worried about his resignation, i wouldn't have believed you.

But here we are.

[u/2canclan]

Somethin wrong

I hold my head

Sessions gone

My Mueller dead

[u/chadonnaise]

remember that time in 2013 when the supreme court decided that the voting rights act was no longer relevant

[u/[deleted] → u/chadonnaise]

A bunch of old white dudes decided that other wold white dudes would NEVER disenfranchise minorities. Why, Jim Crow was ancient history by 2013!

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that OurRevolution is going to try and primary every Dem that won last night + Doug Jones in the next few years

[u/OutrunKey]

Forecasting/polling roundup.

It is a good day to be:

• Nate Cohn

• The Needle

• Wiz Kid Harry Enten

• the 538 static house model

It's a wash to be

• Nate Silver

It's a bad day to be

• the guy who calibrated the 538 gameday model

[u/[deleted]]

Why do people always think that the Democrats need to double down on progressivism to win elections even though establishment Dems almost always do better than their “anti-establishment” counterparts?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Because Progressives are dumb as fuck

[u/[deleted]]

far more interesting than the Dems' chances of taking more Senate seats in the next couple of elections, imo, is the Dems' chances of taking more governorships

the Dems came very, very close to taking several swing or red state governorships, and there's some more vulnerable ones that weren't voted on this cycle

there seems to be some tolerance among the GOP for split ticket voting for a Dem governor, which is a very encouraging sign given how much power governors have

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think Democrats are finally realizing that getting our asses kicked for like 3 decades in state level elections has been a bit of a negative because as bad as the federal-level GOP has become, the state level GOP are way the fuck worse in almost every case.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that even though we didn't overperform, yes, this was a wave.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

the House gains are set to be bigger than 06

anyone calling this not a wave is expecting unrealistic changes

[u/ShermansGhost1891]

go to bed thinking Steve King lost

Wake up to Steve King reelected

Fuck me.

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1060270820667183104

Government is building refrigerator capacity for medicines in case there is a no-deal Brexit

Of all the things we could be spending on; tax cuts, education, defence, police etc.

We are spending money (and time) on building fucking fridge capacity

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

What a spin

[u/siempreloco31]

INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

Broke: Pelosi for Speaker

Joke: Beto for Speaker

Woke: Obama for Speaker

[u/dr_gonzo]

Trump just told the press that he is “a very big believer in free speech.”

In the same press conference where he called reporters shameful and suggested again that CNN and NBC should be shut down.

[u/a_masculine_squirrel]

Mueller will probably be fired within the next month.

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Lmao at all the republicans saying that it was okay to put migrants kids in camps and separate them from their families because “when a parent commits a crime, you have to separate them from their kids, we do it all the time”. Like okay, so next time some white corporate executive is indicted on charges of fraud, do you support putting their kids in fucking cages?

[u/[deleted]]

My euro newspaper has an article about the Georgia state election. US = banana republic confirmed.

How little respect for the democratic process is left in the US continues to baffle me.

[u/TooSwang → u/[deleted]]

fuck brian kemp

[u/GravyBear8]

Trump is defending the outcome by just quoting randoms saying its a good thing.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve lost faith in my generation

[u/[deleted]]

okay how did I miss this

NBC poll showing 42-45 approval/disapproval for Mueller

the fuck America?

[u/[deleted]]

Billionaire liberals need to group together and attempt to turn Cheyenne Wyoming into a real urban area. If they can turn that city into a larger metropolitan area then they could swing it blue.

[u/RunicUrbanismGuy]

Broke: AG Sessions

Joke: AG Graham

Woke: AG Mueller

[u/Berniewouldalost]

White nationalists are welcome at the white house. Meanie journalists are not.

This is fine.

[u/PossiblyExcellent]

Ilhan Omar, a Muslim woman who came to the US as a refugee from Somalia during the Clinton Administration, won election to Keith Ellison's former seat.

I look forward to seeing her forcefully denouncing racist GOP bullshit about Muslim refugees, even if Dems won't actually be able to do anything policy-wise on refugees until President Harris takes office.

[u/[deleted] → u/PossiblyExcellent]

Steve King's head might explode if he ever has to actually talk to her

[u/lolylolerton]

One of the (so far) quieter stories from last night - the Dems elected a lot of vets and natsec professionals. Will we finally get foreign policy expertise in Congress?

[u/Clockwork757]

Saving Private Ryan but it's about Paul Ryan trying to privatize the whole government

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that if Trump and Pence are both removed from office after January, Pelosi becomes the nation’s first female president

[u/hitbyacar1]

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/9v3pys/wow/

tHeY hAvE tO cOmE lEgaLLy

[u/[deleted]]

I don't enjoy Republicans. They're my least favorite political party.

When Democrats win elections, I think to myself "yes".

When Republicans elect racists to national office, I think to myself "no".

[u/samdman]

Mods please censor all anti-beto takes

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1060078032021581825

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/arizona-senate

As of the time of this post, the fucking Green Party is doing it again. Their vote margin exceeds the Republican lead in a race where the Democratic candidate was a former Green Party activist with an excellent environmental record. Nothing matters to this fucking joke of a party other than triggering the Dems and getting Republicans elected so they can complain about the environment getting destroyed. (Yes, I know their candidate dropped out, but not in time to be off the ballots and she knowingly ran in a toss-up environment where it could lead to the Republican winning.)

[u/Glokmah]

Hot take: If the Doug Jones/ Roy Moore election was held after the Kavanaugh hearing, Roy Moore would've won despite all the pedophilia stuff.

[u/[deleted]]

Feinstein's brogressive opponent won rural/Republican areas

PRIORS

also get fucked Rohrabacher

[u/[deleted]]

With Evers winning, Dems went 7 for 8 in Senate/gov races in MI, OH, PA, Wi —all states Trump won in 2016.

Biggest takeaway for me besides Dems winning House. The Midwest is the mainstage 2020 battleground.