Agree results increasingly point the D direction. But some of the big races that garnered the most attention in GOP column (for now): Govs in FL and GA, TX Senate. GOP kept OH and IA gov, too, even as MI, WI went to Ds. Dems won power, not full Trump repudiation many wanted.https://twitter.com/scottdetrow/status/1060700022969454593 …
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The election was a wave. It was very good for Ds. But it ran into obstacles that foretell potential future D problems (FL, OH) just as the 2010 wave foundered in places that spoke to future R problems (CA, CO, NV)
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that's a good way of looking at it. could argue that the distressing thing for Dems even in areas I think they can consider big-pic successes -- Texas and Georgia -- is they still face a ceiling there that sits below a winning margin
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Yes but those places are icing on the cake. They don’t need those states in their column yet if they win back PA MI WI.
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true, though man, it's hard for me to imagine Dems relying exclusively on winning WI-PA-MI for the presidency. PA, I could see that getting away from Trump. But the other two could be really damn close.
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Yes of course. They can try tx az and ga as well. Just as Trump would be smart to make a run at MN and NH
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I agree in the House this was a wave. How many Clinton-House GOP districts are even left? And Senate map heavily tilted badly for GOP from the get-go. But my broader point is that D hopes that Trumpism would somehow be proved a one-time aberration for the country were squashed.
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did D's really think that? did D's really think racism is gone? It's a wyrm, never killed, just chopped to pieces for a while
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Those weren't the hopes of top party strategists, per se. They knew that was unlikely. But talk to rank and file Dems and activists and it was real. Btw, I don't recall Dems winning big governorships, or much of anything, in 2010 like Rs did in 2018.
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