...maybe not giddy, but it's a start.

But it really is a good night.

You're at least nearly as old as I.

I loved that cartoon. Still can sing the theme song.

Yup, loved it.

That and this -

"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, and I am as merry as a schoolboy . . . . "

Huzzah, and God bless us all, everyone!

It sure feels good to feel good for a change

Westchester County Executive with 20% precincts reporting:
Latimer (D) 60%
Astorino (R - incumbent) 40%


NY ConCon proposal going down in flames: 80% NO, 20% yes

That makes me giddy! Best night in a year.

I think we all needed this shot in the arm to restore our hope and our resolve to keep on fighting the right-wing plague in this country. I just hope this momentum continues.

I never let me guard down. But this is one less thing to worry about.
I hope the seats hold in VA and NJ.
Census in 2020 followed by redistricting in 2011.

We will win from the bottom up.

I am on cloud 9! Now ready to keep this momentum to 2018 and get Beto elected to kick out Ted Cruz!!! He's already out raised Cruz without any PAC $$$

We even won our local elections!

got the idiots to back off the marijuana re-illegalizing.

Giddy, too. We all needed this. I feel like something has turned; now we just need to keep it going. Come on 2018!!

We will retire you.

Scum.

Winning is awesome, and a lot more has to happen before the work is done! Bring it forward and there'll be lots more nights to feel giddy!

I've felt hope in a couple of years.

I've been eating them since last November.

....

Remember, we democratic voters win without dirty tricks, too. The gop "wins" only by cheating, or with Russian help. I am sure they are busy plotting new ways to prevent this from happening elsewhere.

Still anxious over an important very local race for our district on the county legislature that will be decided by absentee ballots. We did fine in our Town races.

But regarding the national trend? Ecstatic!

We actually voted to fund schools and infrastructure by a significant margin. That's a HUGE shift in the way this city has voted in the past. It's a good day!

YAYAAYAYAYAAY

I live in Henrico County - HD73 - Democratic challenger Debra Rodman defeated a longtime repub incumbent! The VA house of delegates races are astonishing- even the most pie in the sky predictions were for 6-8. So far tonight, Dems have flipped 14! There are 4-5 races that are too close to call & may need recounts- that there's even a possibility of taking the HD is stunning 😀

Next year, we're coming for Dave Brat!

I couldn't believe it when the results were coming in! My polling place is ULTRA red.... R signs everywhere. I was happy last night and today.

If we can boot Brat, man, that would be cause for major celebration!!

Good guys win tonight and it’s about damn time!!

Thankful for the turn towards the left, towards "sanity"

But as a domestic-survivor, I can't see the small wins as an open door to freedom
We still have a freak of nature in charge
we are still in danger on many levels
we still have a loose fucking cannon traveling the world, saying shit like "I can't believe how many countries there are."
campaigns mean enough, but till we KNOW they are un-fucked-with we are just waiting for the other shoe to drop in 2018

don't get complacent
DON'T think we have full control of what they canfuck with on all levels
I'm still nervous

Frankly, I was dreading it. Hid from news all day. I had a lot to do anyway, though. Didn't want to know. Fearful that it was gonna be just more bad news.

And I WAS WRONG!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

NEVER happier to be wrong! I'm so relieved!

Yippee!!!

Good news from everywhere, for the first time in a year, I think we will be just fine.

What WONDERFUL news!

So damn happy. America is ready to shitcan the orange asshole.

I'm starting to feel normal again & that sick, queasy feeling I've had for the longest goddamned year of my life is fading.

What a relief.

I knew it was going well, but DAMN.

Hell yeah, I been giddy since the governorship of Virginia was won by Northam & A LOT of nice Dem wins across the country 😎😎




Can't lose sight of what you said however: "We have a LOT more work to do."

"But for tonight, this is what WINNING looks like."

Feels good, so .......

Back to my giddy dancing now .......

Suddenly it hit me.
A whole lot of people hate maggot
As president as well !!!

to the White House while he's out of town?

All the "nattering nabobs of negativism" are quieter tonight.

Happiest I have been since the nightmare election with the indictments and now tonight!

For the first time since Putin installed his puppet in the white house, I have hope that American voters will throw out these evil racist traitors!

Now, we hold and build on this!

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Well it is great to see these results, but complacency will kill us. This NEEDS to be the beginning.... NOW is the time to really begin the advance. Its great to see these state and local election results, and indeed state and local politics are the mainstay of this country, but we also need to awake the national levels.... keep motivating, keep pushing and WHEN we regain the Senate, and make inroads in the house, we can then again get our citizens the help they need, not cut their lives to the bone.

Republicans have no enthusiasm right now, it's a political vacuum

2018 they won't be so lethargic

Winning is sweet, and with it comes success, fundraising, enthusiasm

The big results were in and great, the down ballot results were coming in and repeating the trend. So i just went to bed and actually slept well. Maybe it was the calming sound of the world exhaling.

People who assumed Hillary would win and didn't bother to vote have learned a lesson.

Poll watcher who kept a poll open past closing thanks to a judge's order.

Every voter voted.

I am stoked.

And kicking every RePutin butt that gets in our way.

That was the biggest election night kick in the ass of my life. I was too stunned to even cry like I did in 2004. So this is a start to reclaim our country. Hooray! 🎉🍾🥂🍾😷🎉

Won in Erie Pa, mayor, county exec and council all won by dems!

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from the first Mueller indictments to the explosive election results last night in VA... I needed SOME kind of reassurance that others were just as pissed off as I am and that some semblance of the legal system still working... Because believe me when I tell you my next course of action was going to be buying a bunch of weapons, moving into the bush off the grid and starting some kind of weirdo leftist sovereign paramilitary militia or something...

Thanks to all my fellow volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this happen, and never lost sight of the goal or wavered when 99% of the punditry could only talk about how fractured and divided Dems are, and how we don't have any ideas and Hillary and Obama are EVUL and how working class white folks will never ever vote for us and all the other silliness... I realize after last November how much of a struggle it was to get back on the campaign volunteering horse, but folks got it done!

A hearty FUCK YOU to the haters, trolls and useful idiots left, right, and middle who even now are either trying to diminish the victories as no big deal, slander Northam before he's even sworn in, or steal all the credit for the victory even though they didn't put in any work... This shit is SO all up in your goddamned ugly faces... (Democracy for America, I'm looking in your direction)

An indirect thank you to the Neo-Confederate/Nazi/Alt-Right/Pepe/White Power little boy's club... Seeing all these out-of-state license plates converge on Charlottesville with their Glocks and Armalites to rain down chaos and violence (twice) got everybody's eyes open, even the non-political people... And Trump's constant pandering/apologia for this bunch of "patriots" was practically gift-wrapped for us. Here's a dime's worth of free advice: You overestimated by a factor of at least 20 how many white folks were willing to stick their necks out to save some crumbling Confederate statues...

Also thank you to the GOP, Fox News and all the other far-right outlets who literally have to manufacture new scandals/conspiracies each day about Obama, Clinton or some other Dem just to have some content, because that just reinforces to me that you're completely out of ideas.


But it is important to remember that LAST NIGHT WAS JUST STEP #1... We have to maintain this kind of intensity in every race from now until 2018, 2020 and beyond... We cannot ease up for even 30 seconds... The GOP aren't that fucking stupid all the time and even they'll realize sooner or later that Obama/Clinton are out of office and that well is dry so they will counterattack in '18 with a re-tooled message and better candidates... Remain vigilant and keep the pressure on!

This morning, I am giddy.

Now we have to keep the momentum going for another year of outrages.

"Grab 'em by the mid-terms!"

Not my creation, but I hope the dems adopt it.

The only thing that bothers me in Virginia is that Republicans got nearly two thirds of the white male vote. We stll have about 1200 seats to go to reach parity.

I'm mildly elated, but I'm keeping my eyes on the prize.

and am hopeful once again. It's more than anti-trump. Voters know that Democrats listen and WILL respond to threats to our prosperity.

I have been despairing about the state of our democracy and our national affairs. We are moving further and further apart.

This gives me some hope that we can and will turn it around.