Election 2018 Open Thread - Part 1

[Cashew]

Well Dems, I hope you're happy about nominating the worst possible candidate possible in 2016 and essentially costing the Senate for the next several cycles in the process

Let's be real here, today would have been far worse had she won.

[Cashew]

Senate is gone until 2024.

Wow.

Btw... anyone still wanna laugh at my Nevada Lean R?

Wow? The only people surprised by the senate results are polarization deniers.

[Cashew]

Trump calling for a new election in Arizona?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060993836984324096

He has no idea what he's talking about, but he's only making things worse and setting the groundwork for him to dispute his own election in 2020.

He knows exactly what he's doing.

[Cashew]

Weird that Hobbs did so much better in the Pima dump than Sinema did. Unless it was McSally’s old district in that dump

https://twitter.com/DrRyanLove/status/1062114273567170565

Hobbs didn't have a Green candidate peeling off a bit of votes.

[Cashew]

Even if McSally is only being nice because she wants to run again... we could do with more Republicans behaving responsibly toward Democracy even if it’s only out of self interest, because our system needs people to accept a loss gracefully because they are confident they will get their turn in the future.

That's all well and good, but that runs the risk of the media labeling her a "moderate" because of what she does or doesn't say while glossing over her voting record.