Yes they did….
No wonder Donald Trump stood in front the camera’s for a hour and half yesterday trying to divert attention from the Democratic gains that came despite his campaigning….
It appears that when the counting is done the Democrats may have rode a blue ‘wave’ after all in the House where they are now expected to have picked up to35 seats…..
In the Senate?
Things that looked like they where Republican wins election night may NOT stay that way….
Arizona, Florida and Mississippi US Senate races are NOT done despite media reports of the Republicans claiming victory….
They also made gains in Governor races….(Georgia is now up some close examination)
It appears that Democrats are on their way to netting more than 35 House seats — a bigger pickup than the some 30 seats the party gained in the 2006 midterms and the most for them since the post-Watergate 1974 midterms.
On Wednesday, we wrote that what happened on election night was more of a realignment than a wave, and we were talking about the urban/suburban Dem pickups versus the GOP’s Senate pickups in rural/red areas.
But make no mistake: House Democrats had a very big night on Tuesday…..
Two days after Election Day, three Senate races and 14 House races remain unresolved. A runoff later this month will determine the winner of the Senate race in Mississippi.
House Democrats have already passed the threshold for a majority by winning 225 seats so far, wresting control of a chamber they haven’t held since 2010. Based on current projections, they could obtain as many as 234 seats — good for a 33-seat majority — though it is more likely they’ll land somewhere around 228 seats for a still-significant 21-seat margin.
In the Senate, the GOP not only held the line, but managed to flip Indiana, North Dakota and Missouri, each states that President Donald Trump won by double digits in 2016…..
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Against GOP gerrymander efforts?
Democrats made significant House grab backs….
There was NO ‘Red wave’….
Chicago’s collar counties, which have slowly become more Democratic over several decades, lurched decisively to the left in Tuesday’s election in opposition to the politics of President Donald Trump and Gov. Bruce Rauner.
The election of Democrats Lauren Underwood and Sean Casten to U.S. House seats once thought to be solidly Republican was only the most obvious evidence of the suburban shift.
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There was plenty more, up and down the ballot.
The entire Democratic statewide ticket led by governor candidate J.B. Pritzker carried Lake, Kane, DuPage and Will counties, as well as suburban Cook, leaving the Chicago area without a reliably Republican bastion….
More….
Nate Silver now further predicting Democrats could get as much as 36 to 40 House seats and Republicans only 1 or 2 up on Senate seats….
(Will Dem’s end up with Arizona, Florida Senate seats and maybe even Georgia’s Governorship after all ?)
This IS looking more like the pundits where right and Democrats DO have a ‘Blue Wave’ election….
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
Overall, though, we’ve gone from what looked like what looked like about D +33 House and R +3-4 Senate late Tuesday night to what now could wind up more like D +36-40 House and R +1-2 Senate. Probably enough to merit a reassessment….
Twitter…
((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
It. Was. A. Blue. Wave.
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“Democrats have won at least 33 seats, but they look poised to win closer to 40 — there are 13 races that are either not called or too close to call, and Democrats have a solid chance of winning seven of those,” Axios reports.
James Hohmann: “Democrats picked up more House seats than they have in any midterm election since 1974, three months after Richard Nixon’s resignation, and a dozen races still remain uncalled by the Associated Press. That’s all the more remarkable considering that the economy is booming, unemployment is historically low and wages are growing.”
Politicalwire….