Guys, OF F[inks]ING COURSE THEY WEREN’T GOING TO KEEP OVDRPERFORMING. That’s generally what happens after you have a successful election. Trend currently is concerning but we’ll see how it goes with time. Worth noting that presidentials do have different dynamics than midterms due to the fact that everything in pretty much every race is swayed by how the national candidates so far.
Also we’ve been sliding in CT for a while; especially considering the margin in the gov race vs national environment.
I’m not entirely relaxed about it; it’s worrisome. But not time for panic mode just yet either.
2018 was not a successful election by any stretch of the imagination for Democrats. They missed the mark on all the parameters that measure Democratic success tooled for the 2018 elections:
Success in House: Do Democrats have 243 or more seats in the House? No, failure of a cycle.
Success in Senate: Do Democrats have 51 or more seats in the Senate? No, failure of a cycle.
Success in Governorships: Do Democrats have 30 or more total Governorships? No, failure of a cycle.
2018 was a complete failure for the Democrats on every level.
ok no
the benchmarks for 2018 was controlling the house which we do and holding down the senate and gaining governorships the only one that was a slight failure was the senate where we net lost a seat but we also won the popular vote in the senate 53%-38% and we picked up 7 governorships 2018 was a success .
