oh, thanks.

I’d rather he stay a Senator.

Unless the Republicans remove the filibuster for SCOTUS then they can’t bring it to a vote.

I would be surprised if she did. She’d be almost 90. I think she’s smarter than that. But I have to believe that after the successes of DSA-aligned primary candidates winning the nominations and then in the general election, voters will turn out strong in the 2028 primaries to vote for a more left-leaning nominee.

The people who would suddenly want to vote after an election turns out close need to learn to just fucking vote when they’re supposed to like the rest of us did.

Not everyplace is the same

My dude that is my fucking point. Ohio and Kansas are not Alabama! The elections in those states booted at least one statewide Republican last night, which did not happen in Alabama. So perhaps you could recognize that it’s not delusional to think that the surviving statewide Republicans in Ohio and Kansas, neither of which are Alabama, might respond differently to the staunch and safe Republicans in Alabama, perhaps even to the point of voting less staunchly Republican in the next two years so as to bring back some of the formerly Republican voters who broke Democratic last night.

Yes, they vote in January after the new Congress is sworn in. What they’re saying here is when they try to agree ahead of time that nobody else will run for the position in that vote, by making deals for committee assignments and shit.

Yes, continue citing a state that did not flip any statewide seats as a rebuttal to the possible future actions of statewide office holders in other states where other statewide offices were flipped. perhaps you’d also like to convince me that my friend in Arizona won’t like switching from English breakfast tea to Irish breakfast tea because you only have coffee in Louisiana.

I’m from Texas and have lived here for 30+ years.

None of those states flipped a Senate seat yesterday. Both the Carolinas, Kansas, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, and Texas all flipped a seat, with 5-20 point victories. Nevada didn’t have a Senator on the ballot but the governor’s office flipped. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that some of the incumbents from those states will shift some of their votes in the wake of yesterday’s results.

You don’t think some R Senators who just saw their counterpart get trounced last night will be thinking about their own reelection when casting a vote?

Psst …

Pelosi is going. She announced in Nov 2025 she’s retiring at the end of this term.

But if you scroll through all the undecided races, the margins are generally pretty small. They’re almost all under 1 point difference, some even just a tenth of a point. I can’t imagine they don’t end up with at least one recount and some law suits. I can understand not wanting to call those races yet.

Most of those Democratic governor’s were the conservatives of the day, though. They saw the state through slavery, the Confederacy, Jim Crow and the Klan, and became Republicans after the the Civil Rights Act and Southern Strategy.

Also the influx of conservatives fleeing Democratic states over the last decade. The native Texan vote went to Beto in 2018 but the transplants tipped it for Cruz.

As of this comment the Texas Tribune is tracking the state house at 68 to 56, with 26 still undecided.

https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2026/texas-general-election-live-results-2026/#texas-house

AP has it at 53 to 41, with the remaining 6 split evenly. Even if all 6 went Democratic there not enough to beat the filibuster.

It’s strange to me that they called the Governor’s race and not the Lt. Governor’s. The numbers are similar.

If we can un-fuck the district maps and then flip the legislature we can get some real progress!

This is just so incredible.