Mitch will be nicer when he tells Joe no to anything slightly liberal, since Joe will be happy to go with a R cabinet and mostly R policies.
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But we flipped no state legislatures, we’re a dog to pick up 3 senate seats, we lost house seats. People have had 5 years of Trump and more than 70M said “yes please more”. We didn’t win.
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Trump will end up losing the popular vote by twice what he did in 2016. Sure, we didn’t kick their ass as badly as we need to to override R’s massive structural advantages but don’t give in to their rhetoric.
Rs are the ones overriding the clear will of the people, and if they don’t wake up to that fact then we will just keep kicking their asses. Stop being terrified of your shadow, and act like a goddamn winner!
We lost house seats and flipped 0 state legislatures. We didn’t kick any ass, well except for one historically unfit one.
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Yeah that’s when you really have to start worrying about faithless electors and rogue judges and stuff. Rs basically got their Romney or McCain - first-choice Dem opponent for them - in this one.
Rs rolled back the tide slightly on a MASSIVE blue wave in 2018 to get back some seats that they gerrymandered the fuck out of in 2010. We still got way more votes than them in the aggregate in those races too.
Yes, it sucks that Rs are able to hold onto their grossly disproportionate power and stymie our agenda but DO NOT give into their flat out lie that popular will is with them.
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It’s 71.2M vs 69.2M in the House right now.
NYT House 2020
I’m 100% with you on the will of the people thought. Maybe the polls got my hopes up, but it’s going to be such a slog to get progressive priorities enacted. Decades not years.
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Right, so it’s already ~2mm and NY and CA count super slow, so will get much higher. I agree it sucks from a practical perspective but imperative to push back against chuds like Mitt Romney who I saw on CNN today basically saying this election was a mandate for non-Trump conservatism.
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I know you’re trying to be clever by pointing out hypocrisy, but I’m fine with divisiveness when it comes to pricks and nut jobs, Besides, they’re hopefully a minority
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I need more data because I’m not so sure. It’s been pointed out to me that Bernie never would’ve brought home the never Trump and/or just decent Republicans who saw Trump for the petty unfit person he was. But I did say, and still think, Sanders’s fatal flaw was branding himself a socialist when he’s not really a socialist as I understand it. I consider myself a social Democrat who’s also pro capitalism and agrees with 99% of Bernie’s policies
I don’t think this is a fluke
pretty sure there’s another column to that chart.
Someone sent it to me and I trusted the source. What column do you think is missing?
It’s all just so immensely depressing.
You have AOC giving out the cheat codes for free and a bunch of 80 year olds who are inexplicably in charge of everything not only refuse to listen but actively go about destroying her and her allies. Absolute scum.
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The R or D lean of their district.
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Even the complete chart is missing what I would say is the relevant column, which is how did the House Democrats perform versus Biden. If anybody knows where I can get (US House) district level numbers for the presidential election, I would greatly appreciate it. Right now I can only find county level numbers.
Intuitively, I would guess everybody ran pretty close to Biden, because hardly anyone is paying attention to House candidate policies during a Presidential election.
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Yeah, that’s also very relevant. I can’t give you ours yet because CA is glacial at counting mail in ballots, but I’ll gladly share the numbers when we’re done. Every count so far has Ammar actually outperforming Biden here, and he did all the “wrong” things according to AOC and this forum.
I lasted 30 seconds of Jake Tapper grilling AOC about socialism today.
Peeve—CNN running the chyron that Kamala Harris to become highest-ranking woman in USA history. I think Speaker outranks VP. Not as bad as calling PA a mid-western state, though.
And how did that turn out for him?