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Democrats Rout GOP

38 points gcanyon 1 hour ago 18 comments

gcanyon 1 hour ago | parent

I went with the title NYTimes gave it on their home page rather than the wordy header on the page itself. That's "Midterm Elections Live Updates: Democrats Seize Control of Congress as Voters Rebuke Trump"

jimt1234 56 minutes ago | parent

I don't think we're gonna get our $5000 checks. LOL

abrookewood 47 minutes ago | parent

As an Australian, I can say we are all very relieved.

lemontheme 23 minutes ago | parent

Big collective sigh of relief here in Europe too, I imagine. Our economies have been hurting in no small part because of the unchecked whims of the MAGA inner circle.

nine_k 44 minutes ago | parent

Non-paywall: https://archive.is/laAzx

fabian2k 40 minutes ago | parent

The Mississippi senate race is essentially tied, which is kind of an insane result. As well as the Democrats winning practically everything in Texas.

ngruhn 32 minutes ago | parent

did all that last minute gerrymandering do nothing or did even make this possible?

georgemcbay 27 minutes ago | parent

Gerrymandering doesn't directly impact Senate races because they are state-wide (everyone in the whole state votes for their senators, it isn't district by district), but the Republican gerrymandering in general either backfired or had no real impact more than it helped them this cycle.

A lot of the Republican gerrymandered House districts assumed Latinos who voted for Trump quite a bit in 2024 would continue to do so, but seemingly they did not.

fabian2k 24 minutes ago | parent

Gerrymandering does not affect whole-state races like the Senate. Nobody is re-drawing state borders for every election.

And in some areas gerrymandering did backfire as far as I read, though I didn't look at the specifics.

no-name-here 31 minutes ago | parent

Dems are currently up 0.2% there, and markets put it at 84% likely a Dem win now. 6 hours ago it was 94% against.

In the senate race there 2 years ago, GOP won by a 26% margin. Different candidates now obviously, but that’s a huge swing. https://votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/2026-11-03/mississipp...

uni_baconcat 40 minutes ago | parent

All I can say is: GOOD.

Y-bar 38 minutes ago | parent

Democracy still has a fighting chance in USA, and that’s good news.

Best wishes from Europe!

georgemcbay 33 minutes ago | parent

Great outcome, though still a little disappointing that so many people had to feel the negative impact of Trump's incompetence on a personal level to get them to wake up, but better late than never.

Shame that the Democrats flubbed it in Florida (at the senate/governor level, they did get some nice House pickups due to the Republican dummymander).

Angie Nixon ran an incredible campaign and probably could have won if she got any significant support from the DNC.

nine_k 28 minutes ago | parent

Maybe Trump, a long-term Democrat who turned quasi-Republican, and mutated the GOP from inside, wanted to further the might of the Democratic Party all along? Imagine this: a secret agent pretends to be all he despises, gets to the very top of the enemy ranks, rots them from the inside, and, hated both by his erstwhile party fellows and his disillusioned rabid supporters, thrusts victory after victory into the hands of its formal (and proclaimed) enemy. In a couple of years he steps down, ridiculed, but keeps his true allegiance secret, like a real hero.

What a movie that could be.

cocacola1 28 minutes ago | parent

It’s a bloodbath for Republicans. Even the guy in charge of leading GOP efforts to win the House lost.

throwaway384034 26 minutes ago | parent

It is hard to be 'anti-establishment' when you are the establishment. That's one of the reasons why Trump won, lost, won the election.

Sol- 21 minutes ago | parent

Seems bad for data centers and AI, though the benefit of keeping the deranged president in check likely outweighs lost progress following from anti-tech populism.

1659447091 3 minutes ago | parent

> Seems bad for data centers and AI, though the benefit of keeping the deranged president in check

The data centers got rejected on their own basis [0]. While the Texas senator race was more about corruption and a picking a candidate that embodies Texas far more than his Trump hand picked opponent -- the Texas governor race is a clear message vote for data center restriction.

[0] https://datacentersontheballot.com