Okay, show me where the article says the Dems didn't pick up several governorships or state seats. Either that or go on about how I'm being intentionally obtuse again.
Okay, I see what you're doing. That's what you said. Are you know trying to suggest you accidentally forgot to mention the House? Because they would have needed to take that too.
I agree that it was, on paper at least, a typical midterm, but the way you worded it, it looked like you weren't aware that the Dems took several governorships and state seats...which they did in fact take.
Based on the current incomplete results: Dems are likely to have gained 39 House seats - outside shot at one or two more. They are headed for +7 in the aggregate vote, which is directly in line with the margin in every previous year historically defined as a wave, and that's a larger seat-loss for the GOP than at any time since Watergate -- in spite of well documented extreme gerrymandering (for example, the NC popular vote total was almost exactly evenly split but the congressional delegation is 10-3 Republican) - that's a wave by any definition. In the Senate their were 35 available seats... Democrats: 21 Independents who caucus with Dems: 2 Republicans: 10 Will be Republican in 3 weeks: 1 Too close to call: 1 How people keep arguing that winning (effectively) 2/3 of available races was a fail is beyond reason. They have no control over the way the map fell, so the pick-up/lost figure is subjective. They were defending a horrible field and yet netted only -1 or -2. In 2016 it was assumed they would lose a net 5 and possibly as many as 7 (8 if you count the assumption Menedez's trial would lead to his defeat) That was a very successful outcome given the field. They flipped seven governors races, going from being down 33-16-1 to 26-23 and if Abrams pulls it out it would be eight, and a ninth less than .5% away. What else do you want? They also flipped 333 (as of last report I saw) state legislative seats, flipped seven legislative chambers creating 6 trifectas (including in NY state which hasn't happened in... a hundred years? Something like that. Plus a majority of state AGs. Plus electing over a hundred women, a record number of young people, a record number of minorities (I think, not counting reconstruction), and a record number of LGB/T persons. Anyone who doesn't see a huge wave is in deep denial or was too busy watching Pawn Stars to notice.
Every non-partisan election observer who's in the business of evaluating these things as a career has state "OF COURSE it was a wave dumbass. Stop saying stupid things" (paraphrased)
If the Dems manage to hold Florida in the end, the Senate balance will be right where it was after 2016 (before the pedophile lost Alabama's seat in the special election). Given what was expected, that is quite a storm to have weathered.
It's looking like Dem's will be + 39 or 40 in the House by the time this is over. And only net lost 1 or 2 Senate seats... I think they flipped 1 or 2?
@Captain X you marked this "fantasy world", can you help me figure out which part I am misunderstanding? These are the current House numbers I see: Popular vote56,875,237[1]49,344,730[2] Percentage52.6%45.7% And these are the senate numbers I see: 48,905,018 votes(57.8%) to 34,375,396 votes(40.6%). How exactly does that not show a majority supporting Democrats over Republicans?
Popular vote isn't real / this isn't a democracy / founding slave holders were geniuses / libtards. Saved you some reading.
Typical for reps trying to deny math. The environment is not changing because less than one percent of scientists say it is not. They won the presidency with the popular vote despite losing by over three million votes. common core sucks because they don't want to understand simple math. donald trump is a great businessman despite going bankrupt and losing millions or perhaps billions and failing at casino ownership of all things. It is all the same old thing. I am pretty sure I heard them claim the Obama presidency was a win for them because they didn't want to be president anyway. numbers do not matter to failures like the republicans.
