Throw the bums out?

[owlmoose]

Maybe so, but they got the wrong bums. The Republicans are cruising to an easy takeover of the Senate, and seem to have picked up a number of governorships as well. I'm not sure how much this changes anything on a practical level, though. Even if the GOP has a Senate Majority, it's not enough of one to get anything done, any more than the Democratic majority was before. Certainly not enough to override any presidential vetoes. And despite all the hand-wringing I saw on MSNBC about Republican governors in blue states as harbingers for 2016, it's not like New England and the Mountain West haven't had Republican governors before. Remember, it's not so long ago that Mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts.

I really do continue to boggle at the Democratic inability to capitalize on success, though. People like the Affordable Care Act! Why do you keep running from it?

Meanwhile, I did of course vote this morning. California is rather insulated from the national stuff because Jerry Brown was reelected in a walk, and neither of our US Senators were up this year. We also had slightly less of the proposition-related ridiculousness this year, although "less" is not "none". But it looks like almost nothing I voted against is going to pass, and nothing I feel strongly about is going to lose, so that's generally okay.

If only the midterms being over meant that we were done with election nonsense for awhile. But alas, it seems that will be with us always.

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[ex_tklivory319]

I'm glad I live in Cali like you (and my voting generally went the same as yours) but holy moley christ on a pony, why oh why can't people see that the Republicans are riding a few hypocritical litmus issues to a majority?

Godsdammitsomuch, I simply can't fathom the thought process of red voters. I just can't. It's like trying to find a logical reason to oppose marriage equality. You can't.

[owlmoose]

I don't really get it either. But people have long voted against their economic interests to vote Republican. Love them or hate them, they have gotten very, very good at crafting and spinning a message. Democrats, by their very nature as a big tent party, have a harder hill to climb there, but they could do a lot better at it than they do.

As the line goes, I'm a member of no organized political party; I'm a Democrat.