(11-26-2018, 10:46 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: The midterm vote counts are almost all finalized and certified now.  I did not expect the Dems to take the Senate.  The map was against them; elections were largely in Trump country.  

Trump's campaign endorsements and rhetoric were effective in helping the Republicans keep the Senate by a very small margin.  The President deserves credit for that, in my opinion.  And, maintaining control of the Senate is a big deal, primarily when it comes to pushing religious/conservative judges into long-term and lifetime positions.  

But, Trump had the exact opposite effect, on a much broader scale, when it comes to the House.  The Dems wiped the floor with Republicans.  

Democrats picked up large numbers of women, Independents, millenials, and suburban voters as compared to 2016.; they way exceeded my expectations.   

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(11-26-2018, 10:49 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: 9,000,000 more citizens voted for Democrats over Republicans in the 2018 midterms. That's historically huge, a record.

By comparison.........Hillary Clinton beat Trump in the 2016 popular vote by only ¹⁄₃ that amount and 35 states in the union have populations less than 9,000,000.

It's a much bigger vote lead than the Republicans enjoyed when the Tea Party protests helped the Republicans take control back in 2010.

I really don't care how biased people choose to label or position the results, "blue wave", "blue puddle", "split verdict".......whatever. Facts are facts and numbers aren't subjective. The Dems needed 23 seats to take control of the House. They will have taken between 38 and 40 when all is said and done, plus they picked up 7 governorships and flipped two senate seats.

Anyway, as an Independent who's currently way more aligned with Democratic priorities and values than with Republicans (it's been the other way around in the past), I think it's a very good thing for the country and I'm looking forward to more balance and significant corrections in 2019 and 2020.

The (Trump) Republicans lost me altogether when they cut government revenue tremendously by offering tax cuts to corporations and certain individuals while simultaneously increasing government spending significantly, thus driving the national deficit through the roof -- short-term and politically/personally self-serving idiocy that only leads to mid and long-term economic pain.

(11-26-2018, 10:53 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi special election tomorrow.  She's a royal dipshit, in my opinion.  I hope he manages an upset.

(11-27-2018, 06:49 AM)Duchess Wrote:

(11-26-2018, 10:53 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi special election tomorrow.  She's a royal dipshit, in my opinion.  I hope he manages an upset.

That toothless old bat is a POS and Mississippi has got to be the crappiest state in the country to elect her for any goddamn thing.

(11-28-2018, 11:46 AM)BigMark Wrote: Trump is a major douche and I can understand if you don't like his policies how entirely deranged he would make you.

(11-28-2018, 10:35 PM)BigMark Wrote: (primarily rural, white, non-college districts) 

Yes, that is completely awesome to get people who wave at each other going down the road, who look after your unlocked house and are the salt of the earth, AWESOME!

(11-28-2018, 09:30 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote:

(11-28-2018, 11:46 AM)BigMark Wrote: Trump is a major douche and I can understand if you don't like his policies how entirely deranged he would make you.

Well Bigs, whether Trump is a douche or not is wholly irrelevant when it comes to considering facts and stats/results objectively.  He could be the most honest and altruistic angel on earth.............and the facts and stats/results wouldn't change.

What's deranged is denying facts and stats/results because they don't align with one's preferences, worships, and loyalties.  

Trump's campaign rallies and rhetoric quite likely kept the Senate under Republican control and gained the Republicans a couple of Senate seats (primarily rural, white, non-college districts).  As I said, that's a win for Trump and company.

In the process of doing so, Trump helped the Democrats realize a record number of votes and pick up a whole lot of seats in previously Republican-held House districts ( ie more diverse, college-educated, female and suburban); districts wherein in the record number of midterm voters strongly opposed Trump's midterm rally rhetoric and policy proposals.

That's the reality of what happened as evidenced by the vote count breakdown. Denying verifiable reality is what's 'deranged', dude.

(12-01-2018, 07:29 PM)Duchess Wrote: It's beginning to look like there was some fuckery going down in North Carolina in regards to voting. Apparently there is some evidence that republicans may have stole a Congressional seat by destroying, falsifying and manipulating absentee ballots.

(12-05-2018, 05:48 PM)Duchess Wrote: In Wisconsin, the outgoing Republican party has passed a sweeping measure taking power away from the incoming Democratic governor & AG. How 'bout that shit. Those power hungry bastards were voted out because the people of Wisconsin didn't want them.

...and then there's that bullshit down in North Carolina. Fuckin' republicans.

(12-06-2018, 04:09 AM)Fry Guy Wrote: ....and the bullshit in California, Florida, Arizona, Georgia and Michigan....fucking Democrats