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Last edited Tue Jan 1, 2019, 08:45 PM - Edit history (1)
It looks like 40 seats flipping from the GOP to the Democrats in the House.
It looks like Democrats making large gains on the state level.
It looks like Democrats picking up Governors s eats.
It looks like 49% voting versus 37% in 2014. And this higher turnout came in the face of increased GOP obstruction and suppression designed to weaken the Democrats.
It looks like a wave of schoolteachers rising up, many in reliably red states.
It looks like Beto ORourke falling short, but showing that Texas is slowly turning from red to purple on the way to, one hopes, blue.
It looks like 19 new women in the House.
It looks like younger voters starting to vote.
And all of these things represent bad news for the GOP.
It looks like Robert Mueller doing his work, and drawing every closer to the Trump crime family with each indictment, each conviction, each plea agreement.
Feel free to add more reasons, and more hope.
Guill
edited to add: 2 years of intense House investigations of the Trump crime cabal.
malaise
(269,352 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
Happy New Year
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)marble falls
(57,616 posts)malaise
(269,352 posts)Lots of good things happened in 2018
marble falls
(57,616 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 2, 2019, 02:20 PM - Edit history (1)
It looks like a strong Democratic field for 2020
It looks like more people running for office for the first time, and winning
It looks like Nancy Pelosi licking her chops at the thought of bringing legislation that will actually help the country
It looks like House Committee Chairs running substantive investigations of Trump, his family, his administration, and his businesses.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Thank you.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Happy New Year!
marble falls
(57,616 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Corrected, thanks.
marble falls
(57,616 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)lpbk2713
(42,777 posts)Hooda guessed it?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Trump did reveal the GOP as the party of racists.
Laffy Kat
(16,396 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Focus on the positive, but be aware of all we still need to do.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)It looks like we will get a new referendum and stop this Brexit bollocks
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And the capitalization was deliberate.
Amazing how uninformed voting can lead to unintended results.
Amaryllis
(9,527 posts)marble falls
(57,616 posts)can be derailed. Take note cheetolini!
pecosbob
(7,550 posts)and in my home state both Dean Heller and Joe Heck were eighty-sixed.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)crushed on all fronts.
It looks like the orange asshole, going to prison, for life.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And it looks like 2 years of intense House investigations.
marble falls
(57,616 posts)croup of capable Democratic POTUS possibilities gets to the WH. Everyone knowing cheetolini is going down might suppress the vote, we need our national convention to be about more than choosing who going to be the next President. We'll need it to support other national and state races. Some of our new Reps won with very narrow margins. We need to go to the polls in record number for the next four years. There are a couple of other SCOTUS seats to be considered, too.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Your posts usually make me smile though, guillaumeb.
Have to add a little pun: cannabis is gaining ground. (Now if only the repukes would start using it we might vastly multiply the USAs progress.)
Happy 2019!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I agree that cannabis is gaining ground, and about time.
Happy 2019 to you also.
Guill
FM123
(10,054 posts)pecosbob
(7,550 posts)Rumor/speculation. Dozens of Senators/Reps and evangelical groups linked to Butina
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Very interesting how much the GOP is caught in their own web of corruption.
pecosbob
(7,550 posts)and unfortunately I expect a few blue dogs as well...
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)With the approval of the GOP controlled SCOTUS.