{"id":34255,"date":"2018-11-07T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34255"},"modified":"2018-11-07T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:02:56","slug":"it-could-have-been-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/it-could-have-been-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"It Could Have Been Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I tend to be a perfectionist, so there are a lot of things about the 2018 elections that I would change, if I could.  I really hoped Beto and Gillum would win.  The worst of it is the big Republican success in the Senate.  It looks like we will have a couple years in which to RESIST will be more important than ever.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Democrats harnessed voter fury toward President Trump to win control of the House and capture pivotal governorships Tuesday night as liberals and moderates banded together to deliver a forceful rebuke of Mr. Trump, even as Republicans held on to their Senate majority by claiming a handful of conservative-leaning seats.<\/p>\n

The two parties each had some big successes in the states. Republican governors were elected in Ohio and Florida, two important battlegrounds in Mr. Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign calculations. Democrats beat Gov. Scott Walker, the Wisconsin Republican and a top target, and captured the governor\u2019s office in Michigan \u2014 two states that Mr. Trump carried in 2016 and where the left was looking<\/a> to rebound<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Propelled by an unusually high turnout that illustrated the intensity of the backlash against Mr. Trump, Democrats claimed at least 26 House seats<\/a> on the strength of their support in suburban and metropolitan districts that were once bulwarks of Republican power but where voters have recoiled from the president\u2019s demagoguery on race.<\/p>\n

Early Wednesday morning Democrats clinched the 218 House seats needed to take control. There were at least 15 additional tossup seats that had yet to be called…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is a very long article with a ton of information.  Click through to get it.<\/font><\/p>\n

The current count in the Senate is 45 – 51 with probable Republican wins in the other four.  With 45 – 55 split, the Senate will be a Republican judge factory for two years.<\/font><\/p>\n

On the plus side, we flipped six statehouses.<\/font><\/p>\n

I’m exhausted.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tend to be a perfectionist, so there are a lot of things about the 2018 elections that I would change, if I could.  I really hoped Beto and Gillum would win.  The worst of it is the big Republican success in the Senate.  It looks like we will have a couple years in which […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}