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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.
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=.2be12a7f2825Democratic 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.”