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He won’t change sides, he gets committee power from being in the majority party. He would have switched in a 50/50 split but not now.

I shat myself on purpose!

Ok, whatever, bye.

If we can get the votes to remove him for crimes against the People, we should do so regardless of political expedience. If the office of the President is to ever have legitimacy again a criminal cannot be allowed to remain there if removal is an option.

An excellent point which brings up the other issue with exit polling is that it only tells us what people who vote think and not people who didn’t vote. Democrats turned out in similar numbers to 2024 (which is huge for a midterm), but Republicans just didn’t show up. Why did they not turn out? Personally, I think it was the gas prices and grocery prices (and the Iran War for causing the former). But that data won’t show up in the exit polls.

Exit polling is always a bit fun to interpret, but it’s a lot along the lines of “Oh I hate all politicians. Not my candidate though, he’s great! Just all the other ones.”

Individual candidates were absolutely supported. The perception of the Democratic party by the people voting for them is bad. Myself included. Rank and file Democrats do not like the leadership of the party. One can only hope some of the new Senators and Representatives can push for better leadership.

At least the measure that would have forced schools to out LGBT+ students to their parents failed. Small comfort, I suppose.

Lol, exit polls show democrats underwater by 8 points with voters. People hate the Democrats, they just hate the Republicans more. Imagine if one of the parties actually listened to voters for once in my lifetime.

Yes. Not all Americans, but a lot of them can only see what is affecting them in the most direct way, they literally lack the ability to conclude that a politician is picking their pocket when they engage in brazen corruption and self-dealing the way that the Trump family has the last two years. It is an indictment of our education system. I’ve known college graduates who literally cannot define the word ‘hypocrisy’ - this is not hyperbole, I have in my conversations with conservatives asked someone to define the word (that they were misusing) and got deer in headlights as a response. It’s that bad. Americans are stupid, really really stupid. Not all of us, but many.

“Gas price bad!” is a message that all Americans understand “Trump is taking bribes and stealing tax money” gets “Well, it doesn’t affect me” as a response. Stupid. So fucking stupid.

A completely fair point.

They need a commission to redraw the maps or Texas will flip again in two years. I hope they know that they only have power because gerrymanders are weak to wave elections.

So many of these bigotry laws will end up hurting cis girls too (and in larger numbers). People are really stupid.

They would need a veto-proof majority anyway. They just needed a Fetterman-proof majority in the Senate.

The thing is, they are mostly correct. A corrupt Trump government was not a problem most voters care about, but when he skyrocketed gas prices he guaranteed that Republican voters would stay home in droves. It was a massive own-goal after getting elected on lowering prices.

Edit: And then he went on TV and bragged how much money he was making on the high gas prices, like even conservatives aren’t that stupid.

I don’t have high hopes for Josh “Throw the trans community under the bus” Turek either.

Exit polls show that 50% of all voters think that the US provides too much support to Israel. Schumer is for sure doing that Principal Skinner meme right now.

Florida stayed quite red, the only good news was the the Republican off-year gerrymander of their district map did not win them any seats. The margins were tight but it was the only state the GOP really performed well in. Alabama nothing really changed, the red seats stayed red and the few blue seats stayed blue.

There were some really surprising results in other states though. Texas went from all Republican-held state legislature, governor, Lt. governor and supreme court to Democrats winning or claiming majorities in all those positions. It’s hard to describe how massive this is, because the Republicans have been suppressing metropolitan voters in that state for 30 years, which means that Texas might be a swing state in 2028.

Another one-off result is in Tennessee, which mostly went well for Republicans, but House District 04 in that state is currently too close to call with the Democratic candidate ahead by (currently) 280 votes. Trump won this district two years ago with +24%.

It’s hard to describe how much an an historic wave tonight has been. I’ve not seen a midterm this one-sided since '94, when the GOP flipped 54 seats during Clinton’s administration.

Just want to say one last time that Greg Abbot is a piss baby.

Was her brow furrowed when she conceded?

An upset in the sense that if you heard that two years ago that SC would elect a Democrat senator in 2026 people would have laughed at you. A 17+ point shift in two years is insane.