To butcher a quote from Newt Gingrich after 1994, if this isn't a wave, I'd like to know what a wave is. This is this biggest net gain in the House for the Dems in the House since Watergate.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 8, 2018
The midterm elections reinforced a chasm between the two major parties that has been growing in the Age of Trump. https://t.co/obKa3qVObt
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 7, 2018
Voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah approved what their Republican-led legislatures repeatedly would not: Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act https://t.co/A2SnKRnI9r
— NYT National News (@NYTNational) November 7, 2018
But there are a handful of close races where Republicans won but the close margins stung.
At the top of the list: Republican Ron DeSantis’ 1-point victory over Democrat Andrew Gillum in Florida https://t.co/lsxSNu9fGa pic.twitter.com/aNd0lCgdaK
— POLITICO (@politico) November 7, 2018
Democrats flipped seven governorships on Tuesday: Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin victory over Scott Walker might have been the most satisfying for Democrats https://t.co/lsxSNu9fGa pic.twitter.com/X62Y1VdFzi
— POLITICO (@politico) November 7, 2018
Turnout was off the charts in this year's midterm election. In 2014, fewer than 79 million voters cast ballots for the House.
This year, that number is 97 million and counting — and that's just for Dem and GOP candidates https://t.co/lsxSNu9fGa
— POLITICO (@politico) November 7, 2018
Democrats pick up nothing in North Carolina. This one was close. https://t.co/0odLg0c1z5
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 7, 2018
See: Carolina, North.
Cooper, Roy. https://t.co/ZPSG5kgzlC— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 7, 2018
Good, now I don't have to write this piece, or participate in this symphony of cherry-picking spin. Thanks @EricLevitz https://t.co/bJCCOrc7HP
— David Dayen (@ddayen) November 7, 2018
Republicans lost the suburbs: https://t.co/44loIIOPt5 pic.twitter.com/hBfWDrqlfH
— Slate (@Slate) November 7, 2018
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) November 7, 2018
Feels like this is the most likely map, if you imagine last night as a presidential race, yes? It's obviously a lot closer than the House popular vote was. https://t.co/WESGnhTj0s pic.twitter.com/EUp2DNT8Wu
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) November 7, 2018
Heller voted for Kavanaugh and lost.
Bredesen said he would’ve voted for Kavanaugh and lost.
Brown, Baldwin, Casey, and Stabenow all voted against Kavanaugh and won – in Trump states.
This is GOP spin without evidence. https://t.co/f0Gbu7JX3D
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) November 7, 2018
The Georgia governor's race is a banana-republic circus, and in a just world Brian Kemp would be in jail https://t.co/Qip1rnrNBR
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) November 7, 2018
Analysis | The Trailer: It did, in fact, come down to turnout https://t.co/UblKgRyPsj
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 7, 2018
Voter suppression worked: Greg Palast explains why Georgia governor race is headed to a legal battle https://t.co/hFeNOojfM0
— Salon (@Salon) November 7, 2018
The Atlantic: “If the (GA) governor’s race had taken place in another country, the State Department would have questioned its legitimacy” https://t.co/6VbJVAmIum
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 7, 2018
Missouri Dem Claire McCaskill, who lost to Josh Hawley tonight, was the first identified target of the Kremlin’s 2018 election interference, a Daily Beast forensic analysis revealed in July https://t.co/Jq1m0jyrTQ
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 7, 2018
The elections across the U.S. made history:
– The first Native American women were elected to Congress
– The first Muslim women were elected to Congress
– The first openly gay man was elected as governor
– There will be at least 100 women in the Househttps://t.co/IOpL7PUBct— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 7, 2018
Democratic Congressional candidate Amy McGrath got more votes than expected in the district that's home to Kentucky's biggest city. But she fell short in rural areas. https://t.co/yX7nuINxQB
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 7, 2018
Where do you stand on Three Dog Night? https://t.co/V6BlydTpO1
— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) November 7, 2018
The president wanted this midterm to be about him. And in the House, that meant presidential approval was more highly correlated with the result than in any midterm. This in turn led to a rebuke of the GOP, Trump, and his presidency. https://t.co/tGO3gkU9JQ pic.twitter.com/zBOyxAtrCh
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 7, 2018
Most polls had Gillum winning the race, some by as much as seven points. But ultimately, DeSantis’s campaign pledge to govern as a localized version of Trump won the day. He won more than 49 percent of the vote. https://t.co/TOWhCYoqk1
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) November 7, 2018
New: Katie Hill has beaten GOP Congressman Steve Knight in the California 25th Congressional race, giving the Democrats another House seat pick-up.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 7, 2018
Sad! 