!!!Total VICTORY!!!

This is an extinction-level event for the racist, sadistic, fascist GOPKKK on the West Coast.

The proud trans candidate in VA who beat the nasty, hateful Republinazi is an especially gratifying case of poetic justice.

Happy dance!!!

Maybe cities (or Democrats) should starts running pro-urban ads in rural area. Imagine 30-second spots running in eastern Washington showing how Seattle's prosperity helps the rest of the state and how it welcomes them would really throw a wrench into the fear-mongering ads.

Yay Manka! Now lets hope dems actually legislate for their constituents instead of shill for moneyed interests or we'll be back where we started next year.

Twitler on Gillespie: I don’t know her.

(snickers!)

Oh yeah, and Dan does Morning News!

Sorry to be the communist wet blanket here, but: "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them." Karl Marx

Adorable doggy there in Australia but Dan should have chosen this armpit (actual armpit not seen)

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@7 every victory a defeat, eh?

Democrats won some minor victories. Yawn.

I predict the republicans will win big in the midterms, and then win big again at the next presidential election.

Republicans go out and vote R every. fucking. election. Doesn't matter who's running either, they just go vote straight R.

Democrats only vote AFTER they've just gotten their asses kicked. If they win, they go back to playing video games and arguing about how none of the democratic politicians measures up to their personal standards of excellence, so they skip voting altogether or vote for someone who couldn't win even if a genie wished it for them.

Republicans are destroying the country, and MIGHT be destroying their party, but it doesn't matter. Democrats are too stubborn to learn from their mistakes.

listen to people who sound the alarm on voter suppression efforts

So, why so little discussion of how Trump probably won thanks to voter suppression. Voter suppression likely was more important than Russian meddling but it doesn't fit the Clintonite narrative of how they lost the election.

@10,

I dunno. Maybe I'm naive (actually, I'm pretty sure I am) but 2016 was a Democrat "mistake" as you note, but it was a mistake of a scale and magnitude completely unprecedented in modern American history, and so I don't think you can credibly say we won't learn from it. I obviously didn't think that shit-brained idiot had any chance whatsoever of winning, and yet I somehow feel like he's got even less a chance of being re-elected. I also feel like the Dems have some genuinely intriguing up and comers to throw out there (Julian Castro from San Antonio seems particularly dreamy, IMHO) and I also stand by my assertion that a 70+ year old fat fuck who eats a shit diet, openly eschews exercise and works arguably the most stressful job on the planet could well keel over prior to it's becoming an issue.

(obviously that wall of text @13 doesn't address national legislatures where I think R's have a degree of comfort and control that's pretty impenetrable for the foreseeable future. Though if we at least get the White House back, that'd give us SC appointments and veto power over particularly odious legislation, which I feel is as much as we could hope for in the short term.)

@13: Perhaps the magnitude of the Trump victory will change things, but I have seen this movie a bunch of times now, and #10 clearly has as well. It's like clockwork.

VA has been getting progressively bluer for some time now, so I am unsure how much you can point to that as a barometer for the nation, despite the crazy 14 seat swing.

Ah ha, there he is.

The only reason we’re suffering under the jackboot of the GOPKKK in the first place is because of the legacy of our racist, white supremacist system of government, as exemplified by the (s)Electoral College, which has delivered national disaster in both 2000 and 2016.

@ 13, Re: Uneven keel over

From your keyboard to the Flying Spaghetti Monster's noodly appendages--praise! A massive stroke is the best possible outcome here.

Any day in which my biggest complaint is an armpitless Armpit of the Day is a pretty good day.

@12 I think the overwhelmingly disproportionate attention paid to Russian meddling shows what I am talking about despite your ability to find a few articles discussing voter suppression. Voter suppression could be said to be beyond the control of Clintonites if they had actually bothered doing something about it for the last 20 odd years.

Y'all, let us enjoy just one day. We can get back to cynicism and pessimism tomorrow. We need today, or we'll all be dead from stress and shame before next year!

@ 10 got to disagree Dems will win big in 18 and 20 this is just the start of the wave. As 538 points out the fundamentals are on our side. I don't get why the left is so morose.

@17,

Haha, yeah, I've also figured he's probably gotta be one of the riper targets for assassination since... well, since his predecessor, so maybe that's less likely to be an outcome. But given the possibility of that, in addition to a fatal or at least seriously debilitating heart attack, stroke, whatever, I'd not be surprised if he didn't last till 2020, and would probably be pretty genuinely shocked if he hung on thru '24.

And assuming his polls stays in the toilet, I also wonder (crazy I know, but what isn't anymore) if the GOP party chairs would actually consider nominating someone else entirely come 2020, forcing him to either run on a third party platform or come to terms with one termer status, which would be a pretty entertaining circus to behold.

Sorry to rain on your parade but unless we keep growing a huge movement based on dealing with the disaster economy that only serves the rich and screws everyone else we are back at the status quo again.

@19 targeted vote suppression is bigger than Russian meddling, and gerrymandering is even bigger impact. But there are clear political reason the big bads don't get talked about as much.

First, talking about Russia throws attention on Trump campaign coordination.

Second, it's painfully hard to get most people to care about gerrymandering and vote suppression. So less short-term payoff from talking about that. But I know, somebody's got to raise awareness. We need a late-night comedian or somebody to own this as their personal thing.

@22 I didn't mention Hillary Clinton, you did. As for clintonites, they are still in control of the party refusing to acknowledge that their neoliberal policies are the main reason why their candidate lost. I know you don't want to have that discussion but until you have it, your party will go nowhere and may well keep bleeding elected representatives.

For people you claim are into exposing voter suppression, you'd think clintonites would have supported a vote recount and secured the vote ONCE, but no, like many times before they went awol once again. Saying there is "more" coverage of the Russian meddling than of voter suppression does not convey the huge discrepancy in coverage of these issues even though only voter suppression had a clear effect on the election

@26:

Ironic, given those same people still control the Party - and yet somehow managed to pull off some stunning upset victories across-the-board last evening.

@21,
I can't speak for the moroseness of the entire left, but I'm simply tired of seeing the same thing play out over and over, like @15 said. Maybe the dem voters will turn out. If the republicans do something really repulsive to dems, something like making abortion illegal, then maybe the dems will turn out. But I don't think repubs will do anything like that. They'll just give tax cuts to corporations and the rich. That won't enrage the left enough to bother showing up. Add to that that massive tax cuts for the rich don't start to affect the middle class and poor for months or even years after enacted. In that time span the right can blame the left for the problems the right caused and the left will, once again, not know how to defend themselves effectively. I mean, jesus christ, most people still believe that republicans are the party of being fiscally conservative.

The republicans have played that scenario time and time again. No reason to believe they won't simply make the same play this time.

YES! YEEEESSSS!!! YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!! Hooray for all Democratic victories! Wow about Virginia and elsewhere nationally! I am especially pleased with Manka Dhingra's Senate win in the 45th District, flipping senate majority back to the Dems. Let's get progressive legislature rolling again, and without pigheaded RepubliKKKan obstruction. Roast in grifter hell, Doug Ericksen-R, Ferndale.
@Dan the Man, thank you and all who voted in this critical election for making my week, along with my beloved car back from the shop!
@10 Ugurtha Forka: I disagree. From this point, everything can (hopefully!) only get better!
@17 Original Andrew: Agreed. Totally spot on. I will happily raise a glass to the massive stroke of Trumpzilla. May the Evil Empire fall heavily and as severely painful for RepuliKKKans as they have been inflicting on the rest of 99.999%ers.
@21 Seattle14 (re Ugurtha Forka @10): I fully agree: the wave is just starting, and we only need to work even harder now to ensure that we regain our democracy back from the corporate elites, their sellouts, and dupes. ITMFA!
@24: Sorry to disappoint you, but I like rain. The wave has begun. Let the Revolution begin, and for RepubliKKKans, may it be bloody as hell.

The green tea party is still just as obsessed with Hillary as the president they helped get into office.