The Blue Wave happened last night, guys.
Democrats won the popular vote in the House last night by about seven points, they will end up with about 35 pickups, maybe a few more. This is 100% unalloyed good news. There were a couple of surprise wins for the Dems like Oklahoma's 5th, South Carolina's 1st and New York's 11th that were long shots, and the Dems basically will end up splitting the 30 tossups evenly while winning all the races they were favored in.
Having Democrats in charge of House committees in January means Donald Trump will be truly investigated. Even if Trump fires Mueller today, Democrats will finally conduct real oversight of Trump and his criminal actions, and Trump knows it.
On the governor's side, Dems picked up seven Governor's seats, unfortunately Florida wasn't one of them, and Stacey Abrams hasn't conceded in Georgia yet, but she has a major legal battle ahead against Brian Kemp's cheating. Still, Kris Kobach went down in flames in Kansas. The Brownback nightmare is over. And Scott Walker lost, finally. The upper Midwest is shifting blue again after 2016.
And that brings us to the Senate. The good news, Dems picked up Nevada as Dean Heller lost. Confederate racist Corey Stewart got 1.3M votes in Virginia and got crushed anyway by Tim Kaine's 1.8M plus. The bad news: Heitkamp, Donnelly, and McCaskill all lost, and Bill Nelson and Jon Tester are both behind in races that could go to recounts, and Arizona is still too close to call this morning, if Kyrsten Sinema does end up losing, it will be because of the Green party candidate, and that really pisses me off.
Still, it could have been worse. Medicaid was expanded in Nebraska, Utah, and Idaho. That's a big win that will help hundreds of thousands. We knew the Senate was going to be long odds, and it was. But Democrats won the House back, guys. We won some big races and seven governor's seats back. This is good, good news. It's not fantastic, but winning the Senate was, well, fantasy.
The reality is still pretty damn awesome.
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