Still Waiting For the Fat Lady   🌻🌻🌻 💙💙💙

Not a Red Tsunami: Last week MSNBC fired the outspoken Tiffany Cross from her weekend show, The Cross Connection.  Her ouster ruffled quite a few feathers, especially among African Americans and progressives who admire her combativeness and willingness to say out loud those things her more career conscious colleagues refrain from saying on air.  Though it’s unlikely that one remark led to her dismissal, calling Ron “DeStupid” governed Florida, where both Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio cruised to easy victories last night, the “dick of the country” appears to have been the last straw for MSNBC management. Pathetic when you consider the deceitful, hateful trash that the crew at Fox get away with uttering daily but that’s a story for another day. MSNBC has no plans to bring Cross back, but maybe after last night they owe her a bigly apology because who among us disagree with her assessment about the Sunshine State? Not that Texas where Governor Greg Abbott despite the state’s failing power grid, abortion law, and kid killing gun policies easily beat Beto O’Rourke is any better. On a more positive note, that red tsunami that political prognosticators said was inevitable, it didn’t happen, no celebration yet for GQP Leader McCarthy, which isn’t to say that all the news is positive, but even without all the results in, it is fair to say that Democrats outperformed expectations. Turns out that the Dobbs decision mattered and Biden isn’t the loser pundits like to say he is.

No Wizardry: It's still more likely than not that Republicans will eke out enough seats to take over the House, but even that’s not a given as several races across the country, especially out west but also in New York of all places where Governor Kathy Hochul did prevail over challenger Lee Zeldin, are either too early or too close to call.  Likewise, the Senate remains up in the air.  The good news is that Democratic candidate John Fetterman beat Mehmet Oz, giving the Democrats a crucial pick-up, the not so good news is that Nevada incumbent Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is currently trailing Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in an election that remains too close to call.  It’s also too early to call Arizona where a lot of votes are still being counted though incumbent Senator Democrat Mark Kelly looks to be leading his challenger Republican Blake Masters.  Surprisingly, the Wisconsin race between Republican incumbent/Russia friend Ron Johnson, where most of the votes have been counted, also remains too close to call.  Johnson is currently less than 2000 votes ahead of his challenger Mandela Barnes. Then there’s Georgia, right now Senator Raphael Warnock is leading Herschel Walker, who clearly benefited from Republican Governor Kemp’s coat tails and easy victory over Stacey Abrams, by around 30,000 votes (NYT number).  Unfortunately, at 49.4%, Warnock hasn’t met the 50% threshold required in Georgia so an early December runoff is likely.  Déjà vu all over again.  And yes, the Hillbilly guy JD Vance is going to Washington, he too easily fended off Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan.  

BoBo?  It's also too early to call Colorado Congresswoman/wacko gun gal Lauren Boebert’s race, but she’s been trailing her Democratic challenger Adam Frisch all night so hope springs eternal.  In addition to Kathy Hochul, Democratic Governors Whitmer and Evers have held on to their seats in Michigan and Wisconsin, respectively and Josh Shapiro easily won in Pennsylvania, but Democrat Steve Sisolak is likely to lose to Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada. It’s too early to call Arizona where Democratic Governor candidate Katie Hobbs is neck and neck with Former Guy acolyte/TV personality Kari Lake, another one of those people we should fear.  And Alaska is far away and complicated so we still don’t know about Senator Lisa Murkowski or whether Democratic newbe Mary Peltola will beat back Sarah Palin.  Lastly, no surprise but Sarah Huckabee Sanders is now the Governor elect of Arkansas.  Stay tuned election night will go on for days.

Parting note: With the Former Guy threatening to announce next week, Friday could be a good day for a federal indictment.  Okay, maybe that’s just a dream, but at the very least, the FG’s hopes of having a Republican Governor pardon away his NY problems went south last night.  Did I mention that NYS Attorney General Letitia James, the FG’s nemesis, easily won her reelection.