Election 2018 Open Thread - Part 1

[IceSpear]

WV-SEN is a heartbreaker.

The margin keeps falling. They need to retract the call.

Remember when I was a troll for predicting a Morrisey upset? LOL

[Umengus]

mccaskill at 36 % so far (41 % in)

[Green Line]

Dems picking up 30-35 seats is not a ~blue wave~, sorry.  Republicans are way over extended in the house right now.  This election is just bringing us back to a more evenly divided Congress.  A blue wave would be pushing the GOP under 200 seats.

[SPQR]

Early numbers in the Minnesota house seats don't seem too great for Democrats.

Menendez seems to have dragged down D House challengers in NJ.

[Doimper]

WV-SEN is a heartbreaker.

It's pretty apparent that Jenkins could've stomped Manchin. Sucks for the WVGOP.

[J. J.]

MO-5 and MN-1 might flip to R.

[Hammy]

Heitkamp, noooooo 

She was the one Dem incumbent that I never at any point expected to win.

[Yank2133]

Dems picking up 30-35 seats is not a ~blue wave~, sorry.  Republicans are way over extended in the house right now.  This election is just bringing us back to a more evenly divided Congress.  A blue wave would be pushing the GOP under 200 seats.

Moving the goalpost I see.

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

If Jenny Wilson wins 40+ of the UT Sen. vote she should consider it a victory.

[Storr]

Dems picking up 30-35 seats is not a ~blue wave~, sorry.  Republicans are way over extended in the house right now.  This election is just bringing us back to a more evenly divided Congress.  A blue wave would be pushing the GOP under 200 seats.

The GOP is over extended with a majority of 23? Whatever you're smoking, stop.

[The Free North]

CNN calls it for Cruz and the senate for the Republicans

[RI]

If Jenny Wilson wins 40+ of the UT Sen. vote she should consider it a victory.

The vote is almost all SLC so far.

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

MO-5 and MN-1 might flip to R.

Uh... based on what?

[OBD]

Wassup with Lee Zeldin losing? He's WINNING.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Scholten up in IA-4 early vote

MO-5 and MN-1 might flip to R.

What

[Nyvin]

Manchin and Doug Jones are going to literally be the only moderate senate dems left...

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

I know I should be excited about the House, but Florida and Indiana really have me blown.

[Roronoa D. Law]

MO-5 and MN-1 might flip to R.

Uh... based on what?

Suprised Democrats doing that well in the district before Jackson county comes in.

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

Dems picking up 30-35 seats is not a ~blue wave~, sorry.  Republicans are way over extended in the house right now.  This election is just bringing us back to a more evenly divided Congress.  A blue wave would be pushing the GOP under 200 seats.

I still believe Democrats pick up 40+ seats, and running better than even 2006 is definitely a ~blue wave~.

Ridiculous.

[Badger]

Wassup with Lee Zeldin losing? He's WINNING.

It was a typo. New York 11 flipped, not New York 1.

[Pyro]

CNN projects Actual Alien Jellyfish Ted Cruz as the winner

[Brittain33]

MO-5 and MN-1 might flip to R.

Uh... based on what?

Cleaver's leading by only 50,000 votes.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Democrats flipping the House is the key.  Taking the Senate would have been fantastic but was always a very unlikely shot.  Now we'll finally get to see some real oversight of the Trump administration.  Say hello to Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, for one.

[J. J.]

My guess is Manchin switches, especially if R's win either or both AZ and NV.   

[Brittain33]

Democrats flipping the House is the key.  Taking the Senate would have been fantastic but was always a very unlikely shot.  Now we'll finally get to see some real oversight of the Trump administration.  Say hello to Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, for one.

It's good, but even if Dems couldn't flip the Senate, we're going to be in a deeper hole for 2020. Not great. But may have been unavoidable given the Senate's bias to rural states and could have been even worse.