Election Results

[Bob Schroeck]

Checking the national news now -- several different outlets, all parts of the political spectrum and that aren't drinking the Trumpade, are calling this a massive Democratic surge.  The Washington Post called it "the best day for Democrats politically since Barack Obama won reelection in 2012" and added "The results across the country represent nothing less than a stinging repudiation of Trump on the first anniversary of his election."

Even members of the GOP are acknowledging this.  Rep. Scott Taylor from Virginia said: 

“I don't know how you get around that this wasn't a referendum on the administration, I just don't."  

John Weaver, an aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had a really wonderful analogy in a tweet he sent out:  

"I'm not gleeful about GOP losing elections. But if you have gangrene in your leg (Trump), chop the sucker off. But 2018 is looming & that is a big chop. #WakeUpGOP." 

He also tweeted:

Another thing GOP candidates: to thine own self be true. Don't go down the path of these nationalist loons and lose both the election & your honor. #TwoPaths

And it looks like just about everywhere positions and offices that have long been safely Republican, sometimes for decades, have gone to Democrats.  And preserving Obamacare seems to have been a motivating issue behind the voter turnout.

Even more interesting, first-time unknown Democratic candidates have unseated well-established Republicans everywhere I've looked so far. Downballot in Virginia, at least 11. Here in NJ, a Republican asshole who reposted a meme about a women's march ending in time for its participants "to get home and make dinner", got bounced out of his seat by a woman who was upset by that and decided out of the blue to run against him. Nonwhite candidates have also been ousting white incumbents everywhere. Hoboken got a Sikh mayor. Seattle just elected an openly lesbian mayor who's also the first woman elected to that position since the 1920s. St. Paul got its first black mayor. Minneapolis got its first transgender council member. The new Lieutenant Governor of Virginia is the first black person elected to a state office in decades.

“This is a tidal wave. It’s hard to … conclude anything other than that Democrats are the current favorite for control of the House in 2018," says David Wasserman, who tracks U.S. House races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

Can one even get a Twitter feed in China?

White House: Trump intends to tweet in China even though Twitter is banned