If I were to travel back in time to before the election...

[Tekken_Guy]

And tell you the following people all won their races:
-Susan Collins
-Thom Tillis
-Carlos Gimenez
-David Valadao
-Mike Garcia
-Young Kim
-Michelle Steel
-Nancy Mace
-Ashley Hinson
-Mariannette Miller-Meeks
-Tony Gonzales
-Beth Van Duyne
-Victoria Spartz
-Jeff Van Drew
-Claudia Tenney

What would your expectations be for the election?

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

1996 me would be asking who any of those people are and why I should care.


Hey, all you said was "before the election" 

[Flyersfan232]

And tell you the following people all won their races:
-Susan Collins
-Thom Tillis
-Carlos Gimenez
-David Valadao
-Mike Garcia
-Young Kim
-Michelle Steel
-Nancy Mace
-Ashley Hinson
-Mariannette Miller-Meeks
-Tony Gonzales
-Beth Van Duyne
-Victoria Spartz
-Jeff Van Drew
-Claudia Tenney

What would your expectations be for the election?

trump second term

[PAK Man]

And tell you the following people all won their races:
-Susan Collins
-Thom Tillis
-Carlos Gimenez
-David Valadao
-Mike Garcia
-Young Kim
-Michelle Steel
-Victoria Spartz
-Jeff Van Drew
-Claudia Tenney

None of these would have surprised me since they're swingy seats/had weak Democratic challengers/incumbents (I will always maintain that Susan Collins is unbeatable). The Iowa results genuinely surprised me since there really was no indication that Finkenauer was in trouble and MMM is a perennial loser that I wasn't expecting to even come close to winning.

[ProgressiveModerate]

And tell you the following people all won their races:
-Susan Collins
-Thom Tillis
-Carlos Gimenez
-David Valadao
-Mike Garcia
-Young Kim
-Michelle Steel
-Nancy Mace
-Ashley Hinson
-Mariannette Miller-Meeks
-Tony Gonzales
-Beth Van Duyne
-Victoria Spartz
-Jeff Van Drew
-Claudia Tenney

What would your expectations be for the election?

At first I would've been  yikes

But then I would've realized you're probably only telling me D's lowest points, meaning they prolly held onto ME-2, picked up GA-6, ect, so while I would be dissapointed it wasn't a landslide, I don't think it was a bad night for Democrats either. ME and NC-Sen would be really dissapointing me and I would've thought the Senate would be pretty much an R lock barring an upset in GA (lol)