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So, who won the midterms? IYHO

Who "won" Nov 6th 2018 Midterms?


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Democrats pulled out a victory with the control of the House, IMO. Not a major victory, because most of the major Democratic contenders ended up losing their races, but a significant one.

Nowhere close to a "blue wave", but I wasn't expecting that to happen at all.

The Dems gained the most House seats in 40 years and 7 governorships but it wasn't a major victory? The Senate map made it virtually impossible to win there. Then thre is the demographics that show that Democrats are poised to win in the future too.

Democratic strategists have been cheered by exit polls that show the underlying national demographic trends that drove their gains, particularly in the border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Voters under the age of 29 voted for Democrats over Republicans by 67 percent to 32 percent, a margin which beats the previous record in the 2008 presidential election. Latino voters matched their national 11 percent vote share from the higher-turnout 2016 election, with Democrats winning 69 percent of the Latino vote nationwide, slightly more than the 66 percent share when Trump was elected. Asian voters, who make up about 3 percent of the voting population, sided with Democrats by a margin of 77 percent to 23 percent.

The emerging electorate, the one which will dominate U.S. politics for the next generation or two, supported Democrats in record numbers,” said Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist. “Democrats not only won the 2018 election handily, but won it in a way which should worry Republicans about 2020.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-democrats-a-midterm-election-that-keeps-on-giving/2018/11/09/b4075ef2-e456-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2be12a7f2825
 
Democrats won. They took control of the house and did not lose so much ground in the senate that they don't have a realistic chance of taking control of the senate in 2020. The senate map favored Republicans this go round.
In 2020 it will still be a tough battle but a realistic chance for Democrats to hold on to their seats in blue states and flip enough Republican incumbents in swing states to take control of the senate.
 
Dems won in my state. A solid red state put in a dem for senator that was a rep holding, tilted the balance of our federal congressional reps 5-4, put in a new sup of public instruction, and most likely a new secretary of state (#2 after Gov), and increased their amount of seats in the state legislature.

Works for me.

As for the US House...oh, I love that subpoena power, and it is already got the toddler-in-chief in a new mental breakdown...
 
The Dems of course. Owning the House changes everything. Swampy's last 2 years will be hell on earth for him and many of his cronies....as it should be.
 
The media won. They got lots of advertising $$$$ for keeping contest so interesting.
 
The Democrats won. That's an undisputed fact.

Hey, have any of the posters who loved to crow about how Obama lost 1000 seats for the Democrats in 8 years commented on how Trump lost 380 seats in 2 years yet?
 
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