MOScout: Hawley 49/45, Democrats lead in Auditor's contest

[ContrarianLibertarian]

This is becoming a f**king nightmare

Hawley is the frontrunner, but it's not 7, it's 4

I don’t care. The senate is on a verge of a red wave and be filled with douchebags like Hawley

Well, it’s pretty much a lock that the Dems will win a majority in the House.  Even the lower band of projections there puts them at a net gain of 25 seats...a couple more than they need.  It seems likely they’ll get more than that.

But this Senate map was a very bad one for Dems.  A lot of Red-State Ds up for re-election at a time of increasing polarization.

[ContrarianLibertarian]

Eh, Mccaskill's campaign certainly isn't behaving like it's not behind, she also has trailed in the last 7 public polls of this race

I know, but I prefer to set my expectations low and then perhaps be pleasantly surprised on election day.

I used to allow myself to get emotionally affected by the outcome of elections.  While I still consider myself a Republican, I'm far less of one than I used to be (for various reasons I won't get into here).  I can remember being elated on election nights in 1994, 2000, 2002, and 2004.  Then I got similarly deflated in 2006 and 2008.

I found it did me a world of good to make a concerted effort to detach myself emotionally from politics and elections.  I've had basically the same disposition on every election night since then -- which is probably related to my drift away from my party.