Election thoughts.

[nwhiker]

Time: 17:39

I'm listening and reading.

At this point, it doesn't look too good. :(


Time: 17:49

And it's looking worse. Two seats for the Dems, but we're losing both big races in Florida and Donelly is getting slaughtered in Indiana.


Time: 18:27.

Paul Krugman has tweeted that he's not feeling good about this, and I'm heading "well, we never said it was going to be easy" from people on NPR.

Good news in Florida is that voter rights were restored to felons.


Time: 19:16

Why does NPR interview consistently more Rs than Dems?

Things are still not looking good.


Time: 19:33

Fuck. Ted Cruz.


Time: 19:38

I've never thought much of Texas, and it's now confirmed. The state is scum.

Also, it's time to let stupid America be its own country. Tired of this shit.

Excited about Sharice Davids. About time a Native American woman was in Congress.

In the end Rapey-K is the gift that keeps on giving for the Republicans. We had to fight him, he is pure scum, worse than the rest of the right-wing filth on the Supreme Court... but in the end, we didn't stop him, and the fight energized the deplorables.

I have nothing but contempt for a good portion of this country.


Time: 20:13

More stupid scum in Alabama gave full person rights to fertilized eggs. Filth.



The morning after recap.

Well. We took the House, which is great, and there were loads of women -never enough! but many!- elected. We didn't get the Senate, but that wasn't expected. Texas still breaks my heart and I expect that Alabama's prop 2 will go all the way to Supreme Court, and that it will, there, be used to turn women into incubators.

The candidate my niece has been working for these past... what, nine months? lost, and I'm heartbroken for her. They worked so hard, and a poll showed the race to have the Dem slightly ahead. In Alaska. In the end it was an easy victory for the Republican.

I do notice that when polls are "neck and neck" the Republican always seems to pull out a win with plenty of margin.

What happened/is happening in Georgia is unconscionable. Brian Kemp needs to end up in court, not in the governor's mansion.

And fingers crossed, it looks like we might have finally flipped Washington's 8th district. It had been trending blue for years, as the suburbs have become more diverse (than Seattle....) and much more liberal. I suspect it would have flipped years ago, only the "bipartisan" commission that redistricted it in 2010 massaged into one where there was plenty of rural red to balance out high-tech, diverse, liberal suburbs. It was tenable also in part because the R elected there was a true R moderate, that rare now pretty much extinct creature. This time the Rs put up a local boy, Dino Rossi. Who is anything but moderate, but... this was his home town, where he'd been known for decades. He's also well known because he ran for governor (at least once), senate, something else etc. In the end, it's looking like -and I hope hope hope this holds- a local pediatrician is going to take the seat. I hope so, because Rossi is a Republican in the model of Rick Santorum.

Ah well. I still have to finish reading news to see what more heartbreakers are in there. But... The House. Oversight on the malignant mango.

I'm not impressed with this country. Too many mean, racist people, who don't think anyone but white men deserve to get ahead and succeed. White women have, yet again, broken my heart.