Maybe second or third on the list after Hegseth and Musk?
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h agoMan, y'all know who can be forced to appear before the next House and Senate to testify under oath? Greg Bovino.
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Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h ago
I would say that the largest vote margin since Watergate is a mandate for fundamental change in how Congress operates - and checks a runaway executive. Absolutely let's deal with affordability along the way. But surely the largest protests in US history and this massive vote mean something more.
How extreme was yesterday's wave election? In terms of total votes, the overall count was the second-largest margin ever against the President's party (favoring Democrats by 13.8%). The only larger margin was in 1974, the year of the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation.
A Colom win would put powerful, delicious icing on the poetic justice cake. (On top of MI Senate + GA and TX governor wins)
Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 10h agoAs we celebrate all of last night's victories, there's one outstanding race that's very worthy of our attention. In the notorious battleground state of... Mississippi! We have an excellent Democrat in Scott Colom who is on the verge of flipping a MS Senate seat for the first time in decades.
Hegseth has massive levels of criminal exposure everywhere you look. Impeachment might be the least of his problems by the time this is over. What an incompetent, evil buffoon. Shame on everyone who put this guy in a position of such power.
A new California "civil rights" claim dropped last week, courtesy of San Francisco's Marina residents (median HH income ~$250k): the right to enjoy the "peaceful sounds of seagulls and merriment", threatened by construction of new apartments over a Safeway. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
Raman backers are liking what they're seeing.
bluejose.bsky.social@bluejose.bsky.social · 16h agoAs of right now!
Abdul in May: “I’ll smoke him by 7” Abdul in November: Wins by 7 points
Two of the many narratives that went down in flames last night: Republicans are perpetually undercounted in polls, and Black people some vote for El-Sayed. Political journalism is our media's weakest and least accountable forms: a predictable and insipid echo chamber.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Young, Hispanic, Black voters and other key demographics propelled Democratic gains in 2026: AP Voter Poll.
4. If Dem Party consultants discouraged Dems from trying in any of these states, they need to be asked hard questions. 5. The "popularism" argument has failed. It would never have predicted Dem wins in TX, SC, KS, etc. Leadership matters.
I've seen enough. Tonight is nothing if not a RESOUNDING demand for real enforcement of the 15th Amendment. Black voters know what has been lost. It's time to build it back, better than ever before.
I have vibe coded a quick tracker here: govmodel.fly.dev/legislature. they're one seat away in both chambers, and the margin for the next seat in both chambers is under 3 points
Oregon Legislature Results
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Peltola's leading in Alaska, and by more than the 50% threshold needed to avoid a ranked choice tabulation. #akleg
Democratic candidate Mary Peltola leads in early vote counts for Alaska’s US Senate election | Alaska Beacon
Some national Republican officials, citing New York Times reporting, have vowed to challenge a Peltola victory.
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NYT just dropped the odds that the R candidate wins the MS Senate race by 13 points. Still a longshot for the Black-preferred candidate to pull it off, but holy cow
JUST IN: Democrats have won control of the state government of Wisconsin. For the first time since 2010. They have flipped the state Senate & flipped the state House, and kept the governorship. Among the thingS they're likely to do: repeal Scott Walker's restrictions on collective bargainins.
some Washington state and local ballot measures with economic implications looking good. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Jon Rosenthal, Texas's new Railroad Commissioner: “The dude that posted the online poll last summer asking who’s a bigger threat to America, and the only two choices were Muslims and Jews, tonight this Jewish engineer sends that motherfucker home.” (Texas Tribune)
Decision Desk called Oregon’s gubernatorial race for Tina Kotek 💯 x.com/decisiondesk...
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Decision Desk HQ projects Tina Kotek wins the OR Governor General Election #DecisionMade: 11:08 PM EST Follow live results here: https://t.co/H9lipUJxks
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For the next four years we’re going to have to analyze every thought of the median southern Black voter, the salt of the earth people who swing elections
@npr.org's political experts still acting like the three or four seat margin in the House is in question I really could not believe my ears.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · yesterday55 or 56 seats
It's one of the biggest calls of the night. Democrat Keisha Lee Bottoms has won the governor's race in Georgia, NBC News calls. Georgia Democrats have broken the GOP trifecta, and gotten their first win for governor in this state since 1998.
wasn't going to share this publicly but it seems to be working for now and... looks pretty tsunami-esque chat, don't think you could conclude anything else from these results so far www.gelliottmorris.com/i/223234792/...
The AP Voter Poll shows roughly 7 in 10 voters say Congress is doing “not enough” to provide checks and balances on the presidency. Only about 2 in 10 say it’s doing “about the right amount,” and about 1 in 10 say Congress is doing “too much.” apnews.com/live/midterm...
Midterm election live updates: The economy and the state of democracy are top issues, AP Voter Poll says
The 2026 midterm election results will determine control of Congress for the rest of President Donald Trump's term. Republicans hope to keep Democrats from controlling the Senate and House.
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Built a dashboard for the evening. Starting from a poll-based model priors, it will update and rerun the model as county level returns come in, based on a factor-model for polling error. Also reports updated betting market numbers all under one roof. Link: tinyurl.com/Election2026...
Trump won in ’24 with 49.8% of the popular vote and they called it a realignment.
Axios@axios.com · 2d agoThere's a difference between a blowout and a mandate. Confusing the two could tempt Democrats to overread the results and forget the serious credibility problem they still face heading into 2028.