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

!!! https://t.co/enavrkWkVl

— 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

For anyone who doubted the post-Labor Day consolidation of the Trump base: Dems didn't flip a single GOP House seat where Trump broke 55% of the vote.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 7, 2018

Democrats faced big structural disadvantages, unlike any in recent memory. Take those into account, and 2018 looks like a wave election. https://t.co/CTATN1qdEF

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 7, 2018

Per Florida's constitution, measure restoring voting rights to people who complete sentences for felonies will be effective January 8, 2019 https://t.co/YXlVMayZbA

— Sam Levine (@srl) November 7, 2018

Another big victory for voting rights: voting rights lawyer Anita Earls elected to NC Supreme Court. She successfully challenged NC voting restrictions court struck down for targeting black voters "with almost surgical precision"

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 7, 2018

This is holding up:
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher just unseated Rep. John Culberson
Colin Allred unseated Rep. Pete Sessions
And Democrats are doing well in the competitive Texas state Senate seats. https://t.co/Uf2G0MDCOf

— Tara Golshan (@taragolshan) November 7, 2018

ask @SherrodBrown who won easily https://t.co/jIg0S8sWPE

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 7, 2018

By the time we know the winners in some of these races, someone will have declared and then dropped out of the 2020 campaign. https://t.co/NvYvlbM7gC

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 7, 2018

Think about this: two Republicans indicted on serious criminal charges reelected. One convicted of assaulting a reporter, praised by Trump for doing so, reelected. Overt racist Steve King reelected. Overt racist Ron DeSantis elected as FL governor. Overt racist Brian Kemp leading

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) November 7, 2018

With the midterms over and a return to divided government in January, a few thoughts on the implications for foreign policy and national security:

— Richard Fontaine (@RHFontaine) November 7, 2018

Ohio’s Franklin County Board debunked a viral tweet falsely claiming voter fraud happened in their district. The platform has yet to take it down. https://t.co/92btJ7lbje

— PEN America (@PENamerican) November 7, 2018

Democratic US senator eyes recount in battleground Fla. race https://t.co/n8K7bumOV7 pic.twitter.com/iE30SnrCZ4

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 7, 2018

Ballot initiatives passed in a half-dozen states to make it easier to vote and crack down on gerrymandering. https://t.co/aYpnkP2bvl

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) November 7, 2018

Trump's political rise was so stunning that the media is scared to say about him what we would say about any other president polling this badly, and who lost the House, amidst this economy.

He's failing politically. He's an anchor on his party. https://t.co/GXWJxsFw1O

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 7, 2018

Georgia Secretary of State @BrianKempGA may not only have voter-purged his way into a lead and possibly the governor’s mansion. He also openly stated to his supporters that he needed fewer Georgians to vote. Don’t forget that. https://t.co/FHtnVBjkCL

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) November 7, 2018

Having learned that 76% of white women voted for Kemp over Stacey Abrams, I am looking for a new demographic to join.

— Barbara Ehrenreich (@B_Ehrenreich) November 7, 2018

Asians are more heavily Democratic than Latinos. https://t.co/dpFIMy0Mj5

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 7, 2018

This is basically the consensus view of the left of Democratic political acvitiat class. https://t.co/as6fBrd6Mf

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 7, 2018

The QAnon crowd has been really shaken up by Dems taking the House. Lots of disillusionment on their forums, accusations that Q is, in fact, totally made up.

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 7, 2018

This map is an exact match of the 2012 presidential election in 49 states (except for Ohio), which would seem to put a bit of a dent into the "2016/2018 is a realignment" story making the rounds. We are in an era of historic geographic electoral stability.https://t.co/ki0VJODP7o

— David A. Hopkins (@DaveAHopkins) November 7, 2018

Democrats have an extremely serious rural voter problem. https://t.co/aCd93yog82

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 7, 2018

Kendra Horn just flipped a seat that’s been red since 1975. Nineteen Seventy Five! https://t.co/vk1OAloRmL

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) November 7, 2018

Democrats have *flipped* 7 state legislative chambers and 333 seats, adding 6 more trifectas (gov+both chambers), per DLCC.

Few ever pay attention to these races, but they’re important for redistributing and waves can be leveraged for major gains.

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) November 7, 2018

To be more specific: The political science models, the poll-based models, and the seat-by-seat expert reporting projections all…said this would happen, and it happened. https://t.co/MuDZxxE5Zv

— Jonathan Bernstein (@jbview) November 7, 2018

While of a different political party, congratulations to @Ocasio2018 on becoming the newest youngest women ever elected to Congress. As Elizabeth Holtzman did to me, I proudly hand off that mantle to you. Work hard to encourage the next generation of women who follow! 💫

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) November 7, 2018

Democratic candidates for the House lost the popular vote in Texas by 3.5 points, as compared to 5.5 points in Florida. They're pretty similar states, in some ways. Are we sure that Florida is a swing state and Texas isn't?

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 7, 2018

Still think Midwest results are a slightly undercovered story https://t.co/iXs4PWgMNQ

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) November 7, 2018

The Trumpers successfully primaried Mark Sanford because he didn’t sell his soul. Then the Trumpy candidate proceeded to lose a seat that has been Republican since 1981. https://t.co/wKbQJE4wVp

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) November 7, 2018

Still fascinates me after the nonstop media attention, billions of dollars spent in voter contact, etc etc that 50% of folks don't vote. https://t.co/Y1XxZ29U70

— Anton Vuljaj (@anton) November 7, 2018

One (very minor) effect of the elections: Wisconsin's new Dem governor and AG are gonna yank the state out of the ACA lawsuit. Dems probably end the year with a majority of state AGs.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 7, 2018

Sure feels like the white rural/exurban south really held for Republicans, and maybe not so much elsewhere

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 7, 2018

Despite record spending, 2018 midterms highlighted limits of campaign cash, from @myhlee @anu_narayan https://t.co/Wq5bmkWiuP

— Matea Gold (@mateagold) November 7, 2018

Beto, Gillum, and Abrams ran progressive statewide campaigns and outperformed Clinton. https://t.co/ToxXFzt1vP

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 7, 2018

Most of the results from the U.S. midterm elections have been reported. What happens next?@bpmckeon64 and Caroline Tess write that, with a chamber of Congress controlled by the opposition party, Trump no longer has free rein in foreign policy:https://t.co/kkIFKW8lc4

— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) November 7, 2018

Left out of these figures is the majority black population of DC, which outnumbers Wyoming and Vermont but is deprived of the constitutional right to vote for members of Congress. Taxation without representation. https://t.co/OdyQAGWh4D

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) November 7, 2018

The new class includes the first Muslim and Native American women ever elected to Congress, the first female African American representative from New England, and the first Latina representatives from Texas. https://t.co/wtsbbjBCWp

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 7, 2018

Women and LGBTQ candidates among the winners this election, with at least 113 women winning seats Tuesday and Jared Polis becoming the first openly gay man to win a governor's racehttps://t.co/zuaXPaVLe4 pic.twitter.com/rDwbPd1FHA

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 7, 2018

Meet the Republican Party’s newest rising star: A Nevada brothel owner who’s been dead for three weeks: https://t.co/uuXdrPOPEU pic.twitter.com/ztaHAdW8EG

— Slate (@Slate) November 7, 2018

In the past seven days, @AndrewKragie attended Trump rallies in Florida, Indiana, and Tennessee—and watched many more hours of rallies in Missouri, West Virginia, Montana, Georgia, and beyond. This is what he saw: https://t.co/FF6qzhYKYa

— Adrienne LaFrance (@AdrienneLaF) November 6, 2018

Detroit MLK Jr. High School: voters arrived shortly after polls opened, but precinct had no voting machines. Some voters were turned away while others were unable to vote for 1.5 hours… https://t.co/eDCfEtAaTH https://t.co/gE0Stf4Jon

— Josh Levs (@JoshLevs) November 6, 2018

We answer PolitiFact readers questions about #Midterm2018 https://t.co/QhjPsxsPJw pic.twitter.com/DJMi2R53kt

— Angie Drobnic Holan (@AngieHolan) November 6, 2018

This is really shameful. And of course the problems especially afflict minority voters — it's a mix of incompetence and sheer electoral theft https://t.co/wr0aEcJJ7g

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 6, 2018

Whoa Gallup actually published a likely voter generic ballot poll (D +11). https://t.co/w5Z6YzJ2IT

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 6, 2018

"In my 25 years of election coverage at CNN, we have never seen interest in a midterm election in the way we are seeing it this year" —@SamFeistCNN https://t.co/bJUHkSvsyV

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 6, 2018

U.S. voters targeted with limited 'misinformation': security official https://t.co/oPgwrAI6Kg

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 6, 2018

Two years later, Trump isn't different. We are. https://t.co/4tylQy07Bd

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) November 6, 2018

Okay so it's like 2ish eastern so I'm gonna re-up this one more time.

House: 228 Ds, w/R hold, D landslide still on table
Senate: 52 Rs, 85% chance Rs keep chamber, wide range
Govs: 7ish net seat gain for Ds. maybe more, maybe less

Full explanation here: https://t.co/laT9HI6eu6

— David Byler (@databyler) November 6, 2018

I’m at Annistown Elementary School in Snellville, GA, where hundreds of voters have waited 4.5 hours to vote today because electronic voting machines weren’t working pic.twitter.com/4BJLYVtiEL

— Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) November 6, 2018

Those long lines to vote in NY are a disgrace and a testament to some of the worst voting laws in the nation. My @NewYorker column.

— Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) November 6, 2018

We've also frozen our generic ballot average, and our running our final model run now!

The generic ballot average wound up at D +8.7. That's *not* a good number for Republicans. The D lead ticked up from 8-ish to 9-ish on the last set of polls to come in. https://t.co/nSPeKmmioC pic.twitter.com/OSzxievNok

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 6, 2018

An Arlington, Texas voting location didn't have enough paper ballots: A voter tells CNN that the electronic voting machines were not working and she was told they did not have any ballots. "Once that info was shared, most of the people in line decided to leave."

— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) November 6, 2018

Something Sen. Stebanow just told me: Though Dem ticket in Michigan is overwhelmingly women, it was a conscious choice to not do a collective, all-women event. They wanted each to be seen as an individual uniquely suited for their position, not just one of a national "pink wave."

— Astead (@AsteadWesley) November 6, 2018

Election monitors in Georgia reporting that voters are having to wait up to 3 hours to cast their ballots, per @CommonCause.

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) November 6, 2018

Hey election watchers – here's @edokeefe's excellent an hour-by-hour look at the races that could flip control of the House, or reinforce GOP control of the chamber https://t.co/UT8EOVBmlp

— Ellen Uchimiya (@EllenUchimiya) November 6, 2018

Beyond all the problems with measurement (which are serious), exit polls simply can't tell you *why* people voted the way they did – my @UpshotNYT explainer https://t.co/qWxqpap1UJ

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) November 6, 2018

The AP reports that people have been waiting in line for hours in certain counties due to problems with voting machines. #ElectionDay https://t.co/FJlwIBVO5t pic.twitter.com/U2qVHzaj0A

— Slate (@Slate) November 6, 2018

Brad Schlozman — a former Bush appointee at DOJ, who was found to have lied to congress about purging and politicizing DOJ's civil rights division — rides again. https://t.co/xKC0FJsoVz https://t.co/PtOW92BlXE

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) November 6, 2018

Very hard to evaluate reports of long lines/logistical problems on the fly but we know from past elections that pattern is real and systematic – access to voting is systematically worse in poor/minority areas https://t.co/WXi8OdMNge Unsconscionable – should offend every American.

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) November 6, 2018

The Senate forecast is almost the polar opposite. Republicans are 5 in 6 favorites, per our Deluxe forecast, and 4 in 5 favorites according to our Lite and Classic versions. The 80 percent range of most likely outcomes runs from D's gaining 2 seats, to R's gaining 3-4. pic.twitter.com/wmFtxlVs92

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 6, 2018

My best guess at what's going to happen in House, Senate, Gov elections plus *how much* uncertainty to bake into things: https://t.co/laT9HI6eu6 pic.twitter.com/3QtB7SmCvp

— David Byler (@databyler) November 6, 2018

The Latest: Long lines and technical problems in Georgiahttps://t.co/LZg1Tbcnak

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) November 6, 2018

Looks like Texas voting line issues are widespread. https://t.co/MvFajkCsb5

— Benchmark Politics (@benchmarkpol) November 6, 2018

That is, the distribution is asymmetrical… There's a better chance of a BIG miss in which the Dems benefits than a BIG miss in which the GOP benefits. (Most of the GOP misses are ones in which they do a little better than thought.)

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 6, 2018

Could Democrats take the Senate? Read @elainaplott on their narrow path to victory: https://t.co/k8qgdStHnb

— Olivia Paschal (@oliviacpaschal) November 6, 2018

Ratify or reject? The midterm elections offer a referendum on the Trump presidency https://t.co/f9fYROGqVK Analysis via @rickklein pic.twitter.com/68FgfV4qCU

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 6, 2018

Dispatch from my mom in Connecticut who says the lines at her polling place were longer than even in 2016. So many people that she had to find parking elsewhere.

— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 6, 2018

6 key, early races that will foretell Democrats' 2018 election fate tonighthttps://t.co/B7o4VZZ0W9 pic.twitter.com/ElxJFu3USQ

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 6, 2018

Is voting too inconvenient for you? Tell that to civil rights leader @repjohnlewis, who was arrested and beaten for the right to vote. pic.twitter.com/Oyaprr7PLv

— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) November 5, 2018

No one could have predicted humidity in North Carolina. https://t.co/e8g8OHzSv3

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 6, 2018

The third graph here, particularly in the context of last night, is critical to understanding politics in 2018. https://t.co/cPJCV7541W

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 6, 2018

Early personal #ElectionDay2018 anecdote: Biggest lines I’ve ever seen, by far, including presidential elections, at my polling station in the swing NJ-11 district

— David W. Chen (@davidwchen) November 6, 2018

Hour-plus wait to vote in Windsor Terrace BK less about robust turnout than the fact that 3 of the 4 scanners are broken. Poll worker slapping the side of one machine like she’s the Fonz.

— Michael Wilson (@MWilsonNYT) November 6, 2018

Numerous national security officials I’ve talked to in recent days said they were going to polls today with one purpose – to counter Trump. Current and former. Worked for Republicans and identified as Rs. To them, Never Trump now a ballot wide mandate.

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) November 6, 2018

Looking for first signs of a blue wave? Here are five early races that should tell the story https://t.co/7RAu7y51Tr

— Salon (@Salon) November 6, 2018

Texas election judge resigns after a video emerged of her threatening to call the cops on a black voter https://t.co/wXYfb2g5BV

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 6, 2018

"I voted because I'm a voter. I vote in every election, because that's how my parents raised me to be." -StatisticalAstronaut https://t.co/kFPPj7AgPZ #ElectionDay

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 6, 2018

If you're a politics nerd, or an aspiring one, this glorious Google doc tracking all results is your election night bible https://t.co/DAkgAjS7Da pic.twitter.com/4VdW1sZOLG

— Paste Magazine (@PasteMagazine) November 6, 2018

ELECTION DAY WEATHER: Severe storms knock out power to some polling stations, as others are plagued by humidity. https://t.co/lc46chLCoe pic.twitter.com/Cj7IfaNwQx

— ABC News (@ABC) November 6, 2018

Brian Kemp’s office quietly patched security holes in Georgia’s elections system they denied existed https://t.co/PWC8AMaTnN

— Salon (@Salon) November 6, 2018

Mysterious anti-Ted Cruz super PAC spends $2.3 million in final stretch — via @anu_narayan & me: https://t.co/KBfIEoFHnf

— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) November 6, 2018

#ElectionDay THREAD:

We’re breaking down the criminal justice measures on today’s ballot.

Here’s an explainer for everyone hitting the polls today. 1/ https://t.co/TfvJWyMKXN

— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) November 6, 2018

NBC News has confirmed that the issue at Anderson Livsey Elementary in Snellville, GA was indeed a lack of power cords. Gwinnett County Director of Communications Joe Sorenson tells @NBCNews “the machine was not supplied power and was running on battery & the battery ran out” 🤔 https://t.co/YFa45nihXs

— Ayman Mohyeldin (@AymanM) November 6, 2018