TURNOUT. IS. EVERYTHING.
Just reading the WaPo 5-Minute Fix newsletter, which reports turnout in all states.
Two stand out, because they are the two that could have meant Democrats would have easily maintained control of the House. (It is looking increasingly unlikely that this outcome will come to pass.)
Both states recorded turnout of 40-45%, both below their 2018 turnout reports.
They are:
New York
and
California
Those four losses in New York were close; better turnout would have produced a different result. So are the losses in California, and what really hurts is the proof that when turnout worked, in 2018, those California seats Democrats will not get back from their 2020 loss were easily taken from Republicans by surging Democrats.
New York and California, the two greatest sources of self-satisfied politically-illiterate left wing bullshit in America.
Surprise surprise.
(Bangs head against wall again since it will feel so good when I stop)
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My head hurts, too. But being the eternal optimist, I fully expect the new Republican House to act like 200 plus beached fish. Flopping around, gasping for oxygen...maybe creating stupid headlines but demonstrating to the American voters that they really have nothing to offer them other than hate and vitriol. It's not a winning strategy. It will just be a pain in the brain for a couple of years.
But we will enjoy the many things President Biden and a Sensible Senate can do. Judges in particular.
And for every investigation into a laptop, the Senate can investigate the members of the House itself while it proposes a series of bills they will reject - and will be reactivated and passed with lightning speed when we accomplish the 2024 Trifecta! How's that for optimism?
The Times ran interviews with Sean Patrick Maloney and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And of course they blamed each other. But I have to say this: if AOC actually had to run in Abigail Spanberger's district, or for Catherine Cortez Masto's Senate seat, AOC would lose so big that it would be amazing.