Suburban Voters Gave Democrats Their House Majority: Predominantly suburban congressional districts, once closely divided, are now twice as likely to be represented by a Democrat than by a Republican (@DHMONTGOMERY) details: https://t.co/6Apu9SPq7v pic.twitter.com/gdPPxjrtgW
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) November 8, 2018
Election officials and campaign operatives across Florida are gearing up for massive recounts in large part due to one familiar problem: Broward Countyhttps://t.co/wwtaOf8bOA
— POLITICO (@politico) November 8, 2018
.@clairecmc gets at an important part of rural realignment: nationalizing of media sources.
She said she’d see Fox on TV everywhere she went
“It’s time we all quit dancing around what is now a state-owned news channel”
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) November 8, 2018
BREAKING: The Florida Senate election has further narrowed. Bill Nelson now trails by only 17,333 or .21%. It is now in HAND recount territory. More ballots still being counted. I expect that margin to narrow further until recount.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 8, 2018
Déjà vu: Florida's two biggest 2018 races could head to a recount soon https://t.co/ldB48jJbCN pic.twitter.com/ajt3ZQPc1u
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 8, 2018
This is so helpful. A rundown of all the races from a Tuesday night that haven’t been called yet.https://t.co/kmTySQvaHq
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 8, 2018
NBC News now Democrats will have won 31 House seats — the same number they won in the 2006 wave.
A dozen races still yet to be called. could push that number closer to 38. https://t.co/fCizcCMX83
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) November 8, 2018
The two Americas just lurched further apart (@RonBrownstein) https://t.co/XeiTH0Dnz2
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) November 8, 2018
Uh, looking at the Broward County ballot. Who designs this stuff? This is not user-friendly at all. Seems rather easy to miss Senate and House race. https://t.co/KC9KghAGMz
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 8, 2018
I think what it suggests is very very poor ballot design. The Senate race was tucked low and left on the ballot. It's a problem similar to the Palm Beach butterfly ballot from 2000. https://t.co/1nAbC7MgAH
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) November 8, 2018
Veteran Democratic elections attorney Marc Elias: “We believe that at the end of this [recount] process, Sen. Nelson is going to be declared the winner"
Rock Scott's campaign: “Let’s be clear: When Elias says ‘win,’ he means ‘steal.'"https://t.co/rEtik7yWIy
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 8, 2018
The midterms gave voters two opportunities to change America’s course on climate change. Voters took one, but only slightly. https://t.co/cLLgavdoFJ pic.twitter.com/S7ppAamrs4
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) November 8, 2018
.@MaddowBlog: GOP House losses in 2018 are higher than the historical average and the worst for a GOP president since the 1974 midterms in the aftermath of Watergate. https://t.co/mwKyAuFNEJ
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 8, 2018
Virginia and Maryland results: How the ’burbs won the battle https://t.co/jxkhXeT5YA
— Scott Clement (@sfcpoll) November 8, 2018
To get this off the table since ppl are focusing on it: AZ Sinema clearly has a good chance to win. Going off county results you'd give an edge to McSally, but these ballots are probably more Democratic. Could be very close. FL, who knows what lurks in provisionals, etc. https://t.co/Fd72naCMFH
— Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) November 8, 2018
Just worth noting when all ballots are in Democrats almost certainly will win the most House seats they've captured in any mid-term since 1974 and the third most in any mid-term since WW II. More than in the 82 or 06 backlash vs. R presidents. They'd prob take more such warnings https://t.co/qGeNw5ARJW
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 8, 2018
“The defining trend of the night—as throughout the Trump presidency—was the substantial gap between white voters with and without a four-year college education.” https://t.co/2gbjHWxDWI
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 7, 2018
Anyone wondering why one-time presumed GOP superstar Scott Walker appears poised to lose should read this definitive piece by @AlecMacGillis: https://t.co/SF4AKLZgwq
— Christopher Orr (@OrrChris) November 7, 2018
The Green Party continues to be a huge help to the Republican Party.
From Arizona: pic.twitter.com/3ci3j9FdFF
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) November 7, 2018
Remarkable that Tester’s best result in MT comes after the president traveled there four times trying to convince voters to oust the senator https://t.co/wQGQgdGHga
— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) November 8, 2018
Breathtaking: 43 districts are already at or above 90% of their 2016 total prez votes cast, w/ millions more ballots left to count in tons of districts. https://t.co/0pm7oW1pFE
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2018
There are several unresolved issues in Florida, where Bill Nelson currently trails by 21,888 votes (0.26%). One involves the large drop-off between total ballots cast in Broward County from the Gov to Senate race. It's out of whack with every other county in the state: pic.twitter.com/RyeCEhZfa4
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) November 8, 2018
In an apparent first, a Dreamer, @CatalinaCruzNY, was elected to the New York state Assembly https://t.co/tB2r2uS93Z
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 8, 2018
Brian Kemp is acting like he won in Georgia, while Stacey Abrams still sees path toward runoff: https://t.co/9CFou4J7YP pic.twitter.com/Sl2DnrTMpF
— Slate (@Slate) November 8, 2018
NEWS: The Florida Senate race is now in MANUAL recount territory, with Republican Rick Scott ahead of Democrat Bill Nelson by .22%. Threshold is .25%. More: https://t.co/wVcN85QhMQ
— Patricia Mazzei (@PatriciaMazzei) November 8, 2018
After Karen Handel conceded in GA and Dino Rossi conceded in WA, Dems have picked up 31 seats so far.
House breakdown:
Democrats – 225
Republicans – 199
Undecided – 11— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 8, 2018
NEWS: The Florida governor's race is now in recount territory, with Republican Ron DeSantis .47% ahead of Democrat Andrew Gillum. Recount threshold is .5%. That's still 38,515 votes.
— Patricia Mazzei (@PatriciaMazzei) November 8, 2018
We are moving Florida from Likely R to Lean R. The vote count keeps tightening and there's a big, weird issue regarding an undervote in Broward County.https://t.co/IPFgyRNPwT
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 8, 2018
FL Update, 11/8, 2 pm
Ag Comm: DEM +575 (+.006%)
Senate: GOP +17,344 (+.22%)
Governor: GOP +38,515 (+.47%)Unknown number of Broward ballots and statewide provisionals uncounted
Margin for machine recount: .5%
Margin for hand recount: .25%— David Beard 🏳️🌈 (@dwbeard) November 8, 2018
Sad! 