Cenk and Ana tells us about Vlad Putin and his pals acting pretty brazenly in the matter of interfering in our elections, making some kind of reference to “liver” and “kidneys,” which sounds pretty “old world,” I have to admit (and also, to be honest, it's not like we haven't done the same thing ourselves to other countries in the past).
And by the way (speaking of elections), congratulations to all of the winning Dems, including Josh Shapiro; of all of the candidates, his is the race that we ABSOLUTELY had to win, and Shapiro was called as the winner pretty early last night (happily, it was a bad night for “Christian nationalist” nut job Doug Mastriano and other election-denying Repugs, including Kari Lake...Update 11/10: I know the Lake/Hobbs race hasn't been called yet). Kudos also go to John Fetterman; we'll see about the Senate, though of course that and the House are still in play...and yes, it’s pretty damn unbelievable that the Georgia contest between Herschel Walker and Dem incumbent Raphael Warnock looks like it’s headed to a runoff, but that probably should not have been that surprising. To me, the lesson of the Fetterman win is to build your ground game, which Fetterman did in every county of this commonwealth. How the national Democratic Party somehow either forgot to learn that lesson or de-prioritized it at the expense of massive TV ad blitzes is something I cannot understand, and since Chuck Schumer and Jaime Harrison were basically incommunicado in the cycle for some strange reason, all we can do is guess at whatever their logic was. And of course, we’ll learn more about the cycle that just ended over the coming days, but normally the mid-terms would be awful for the party in power, but it wasn’t I believe for 2 reasons. The first is the repercussions on the SCOTUS Dobbs decision, and the second is the engagement of younger voters.
And on that subject, I think congratulations are in order to Ashley Ehasz. Even though she lost, she got a lot of younger engagement and built a coalition that Bucks County Democrats would do well to sustain and try to add onto in the ensuing years, to say nothing of the state and national party trying to do that also. Ehasz came flying out of the gate (unlike, say, Scott Wallace a few years ago with that bizarre video segment with Diane Marseglia with the two of them wondering why Wallace was running, or whatever that was) and made it clear what she was trying to accomplish with her campaign, and she did a great job on social media (unlike the rest of the party generally, and I know I’ve already expounded on that). To be fair, PA-01 is rough sledding for ANY Democrat, partly because of this centrist mythology created around Brian Fitzpatrick by our media, as well as Fitzpatrick’s occasionally middle-of-the-road votes. Also, a Dem running in this district absolutely has to find a way to peel away enough votes from, say, Quakertown, Wrightstown, Perkasie, Warrington...places that are Republican strongholds with McMansion communities. The Dobbs SCOTUS ruling resonated all over the country, but not enough in the suburbs to make a difference when it came to voting out Republicans. However, I have a feeling that it DID pretty much kill any potential for a “red wave,” which is definitely a victory of sorts.
Still, though (and I'm sorry if I sound like a bit of a wet blanket), it's unbelievable to me that truly obscene amounts of money keep getting spent in our elections, especially on the national level, and the candidates we elect are pretty much the same over and over (yes, there are notable victories to be sure, but not many overall).
Anyway, here’s the TYT clip...
...and David Doel gives us his take on the election, noting that AIPAC spent $4 million against Summer Lee, though they might as well have set that $$ on fire...that’s nothing compared to Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao dumping $41 million for Mehmet (“CALL ME DOCTOR, DAMMIT!”) Oz...and yeah, it’s gratifying to know that that money went for nothing also, but it’s sickening to think of all of the better ways that that money could have been spent (and yeah, it’s likely that NO Democrat would have won in Ron #DeathSantis-stan, but when Val Demings and Charlie Crist were basically mute during that voting purge stunt pulled by the FLA guv, I had a feeling they were going to be toast anyway...I didn’t know about the Cortez-Masto/Laxalt race, but God, talk about “not reading the room” – ugh!...to do something to help, click here...very mildly NSFW/H)...
...and I probably shouldn’t spend a millisecond on Our Ochre Abomination, but I guess I have to revel a bit in yet another of his unending hissy fits over the vote, as Jesse Dollemore tells us (though, as noted, Walker is still in the running, unfortunately)...
...and Lawrence O’Donnell (in a clip before the vote) gives us two confessions related to Trump and misinformation (including that nut Tim Michels, running for WI governor – Michels lost, fortunately...and I would respectfully disagree with Lawrence’s assessment that “millions of Trump supporters” are smarter than Our Ochre Abomination...their actions certainly don’t indicate that)...
...and Adrienne Lawrence tells us about GOP state rep Janel Brandtjen trying to keep military ballots from being counted...yeah, I’m remembering all of the wingnuts yelling “SUPPORT THE TROOPS, YOU DUMB LIB!” during Dubya’s Iraq War...and of course, EVERYBODY had those yellow car decals too (and Brandtjen won her election, which, to me, puts the lie even more to the notion that the Republican Party overall gives a damn about our military)...
...and I need something to help me chill out a bit from the events of the last day or so; I hope this does the trick for you also.
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