I'm moderately disappointed in several of the results here, but I'm really annoyed with all the people who voted for the independent candidate for governor instead of the democrat! Because I'm sure most of them were actually "no" votes against the democratic candidate. I don't think she's that great either, but I would still rather have a dem governor than the very nice republican!

Ovama's poll numbers dropped a lot after the botched Obamacare rollout and have not recovered since. That still pisses me off, because people in the administration were warning that the webpage was going to have major problems.

Also, and you may not have heard, but he's still black.

(I'm super bitter this morning, and not a little confused that, like in many places, my overwhelmingly Republican county voted in almost all the Republicans, yet voted to fund the public schools, mental health, and the indigent health care issue, and voted to raise the sales tax to keep a local landmark from literally crumbling. So much cognitive dissonance.)

(I'm super bitter this morning, and not a little confused that, like in many places, my overwhelmingly Republican county voted in almost all the Republicans, yet voted to fund the public schools, mental health, and the indigent health care issue, and voted to raise the sales tax to keep a local landmark from literally crumbling. So much cognitive dissonance.)

Not wrong. A tweet from a Fivethirtyeight columnist:

So voters want a higher minimum wage, legal pot, abortion access and GOP representation. Ok then.

Apparently the polls had something like a 6% bias towards the Democrats on average. Hugely disappointing results. I was at least holding onto the thought that the Dems would easily take back control in 2016, when the 2010 wave year Repubs would be in the firing line (and in a Presidential year); but that's less comforting if they might wind up with around 54 seats.

There are silver linings to point to, I suppose; but I find I'm not really up for it right now.

Although -- I said this a few places on FB last night -- there is no way I could ever, EVER feel as bad as I did after the 2004 election, so there's that. (Really. That was my oh-my-god-super-naive election, where I thought the rest of the country agreed about what a horror Bush was, and showed up in overwhelming numbers to throw the bum out. It was like waking up in a different, somewhat hostile, country the next day.) By now -- man, it's been 10 years -- I am totally inured to seeing my fellow citizens voting against their best interests.

Although -- I said this a few places on FB last night -- there is no way I could ever, EVER feel as bad as I did after the 2004 election, so there's that.

Hmmm... I'm not sure which election I felt the worst about. 2004 was definitely very bad, but I've also felt bad about 1988 and 2000.

So every time a Republican wins the presidency, I guess.

The 1994 midterms were bad for me, but I got to blow off steam at a wonderful Cramps show, so that helped.

And that the Democrats were taking victory laps about the economy when lots of people were still out of work, many people in real terms are continuing to see drops in household incomes, and just about nobody has seen a raise in real dollars.

I can't say I've seen victory laps. The closest I've seen to "victory laps" is hearing people say that we've made a lot of progress, but we have a long way to go. I do think it's fair to say that the economy is a lot better today than it was when President Obama took office. But that's like saying it's better to be on crutches than in a full body cast.

As a gay man and a 50-something-year-old federal employee, I feel like Congress is putting a target on my back for the next two years. I'm eligible to retire in 1,407 days. I hope I can hang in that long.

I actually just went and looked at the election day/day after Natter thread from 2004, and it was pretty grim around here. I forgot that the election returns all came down to Ohio, damn my state. Why we gotta DO that?

Also, man, I miss the people who used to post here.

Still not thinking about election results.

My alarm did not go off this morning (because i did not set it, but let's not focus on how this is my fault, okay?) so I didn't wake up until 20 minutes before I was supposed to be here. And I'm not even well-rested, which is a trade-off I would accept.

I think the only position where my candidate won was county tax collector. Oh well, at least I'll like the person I'm handing my money over to so it can be mismanaged by the state legislature.

We elected an absolute snake that's been hungering for the governor's office for decades, a senator who consistently votes against measures that benefit students and the working class, and violated separation of powers by giving the state legislature veto power over rules changes in executive branch agencies.

I feel like the only reason the victory speeches didn't include "Bow down before your Dark Lord!" was fear that it might be mistaken as an endorsement of Obama.