To quote Aaron Blake, columnist in The Washington Post (thank you, Jeff B.):
Should Republicans fail to pick up one seat in the Senate (the gain they need to flip it), it would be just the seventh time the opposition party has failed to do so in a midterm over the past 100 years. And the average gain for the opposition party in House races over the past 100 years is 29 seats, which Republicans won’t match.
Analyst Blake is talking about a CENTURY of precedent. This was a hundred-year political storm. Not because the Dems were so right ... but because, IMO, the GOP Trumpstarts were so wrong.
In other words (one more IMO): this was NOT a referendum on the White House, the party in power, the sloshing economy. This, IMO, was a referendum on the crazy shit ... and Republican extremist-manipulators were told NO! Go back to your caves.
You can't govern 330 million people without intense respect for diversity and change and compromise. Not true: maybe you CAN govern VAST #s ... if you're a totalitarian regime. I've consulted since with a couple of successful international political operatives. They agreed: about 35% of the voting populace always PREFERs an authoritarian, dictatorial, beggar-off Jews. Hitting back???<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>?;
8-ummm or less????
[translated into Icelandish] judt er=tell me ehrtr to csrtpkeom or dohot, sf err y=to bury my fhifrem.
Well, we'll see.