Election 2018 Open Thread v2 - Mia, Mimi, Gil, and T.J.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Both Kims failed. Pearl Kim and Young Kim.

andy kim

Yeah, only Republican Kims fail. Democratic Kims succeed. let that be a lesson to all the Kims out there.

imo Kim Jong-un is fiscally a Democratic Kim but socially a Republican Kim

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Yeah, Utah is the one rock-ribbed Republican state where I don't think distancing yourself from Trump is necessarily fatal in a primary.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Does anyone what was TJ's campaign?
I mean obviously he is a bit of driftwood but he had to do something.

Antonio volunteered for Cox's campaign and told me that it was kind of shoestring but had a strong labor emphasis.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

So are they going to un-call CA-21 after Cox wins?

They should double down and spend the next two years constructing an elaborate alternate universe where David Valadao is still the Congressman for CA-21.

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CNN is refusing to call NY-22 for some reason even though Tenney was mathematically eliminated last week.

I distinctly remember them calling it on election night at the same time as NY-19, no less.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Well, one thing a Democratic president would have going for them in 2022 is that the maps this time will probably be a lot more fair, even before considering any more split governments created from the 2020 elections. So even if they lost the House in 2022, they could quite possibly gain it back in 2024.

Are there any states that are likelier to have fairer maps due to having elected Democratic governors this year? The states that I can think of that were ground zero for the Republican gerrymandering after 2010--Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, possibly others I'm forgetting--have mostly instituted various forms of nonpartisan, bipartisan, or court-ordered redistricting now, with the exception of Wisconsin, where I'm wary of the possibility of the legislature stripping Evers of his power to veto new maps (if they haven't already).

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So, do we think Scott is giving up seniority because he hates Lopez-Cantera for some reason, or because there's something corrupt that he wants to do that he can only do at the very tail end of his term?