Gerrymandering doesn't directly impact Senate races because they are state-wide (everyone in the whole state votes for their senators, it isn't district by district), but the Republican gerrymandering in general either backfired or had no real impact more than it helped them this cycle.
A lot of the Republican gerrymandered House districts assumed Latinos who voted for Trump quite a bit in 2024 would continue to do so, but seemingly they did not.
So screwed up that this was flagged. It seems all the election related posts were flagged. You have to wonder why the HN overlords aren't allowing such a major event to reach the front page.
Big collective sigh of relief here in Europe too, I imagine. Our economies have been hurting in no small part because of the unchecked whims of the MAGA inner circle.
I feel quite sorry for the US voters having to pick from two fairly extreme ends of politics. Granted GOP appears significantly worse, however liberals funding things like free pet food etc feels equally non-vote-worthy.
Where in the world do you live with an overton window smaller than the USA's? I think the general stance would be to feel sorry for US citizens having to pick between hardline corrupt right or neo-liberal establishment right, hardly a large gap between them. Even by US standards the current democrats are more right than when someone like Sanders was still in the running.
I went with the title NYTimes gave it on their home page rather than the wordy header on the page itself. That's "Midterm Elections Live Updates: Democrats Seize Control of Congress as Voters Rebuke Trump"
Maybe Trump, a long-term Democrat who turned quasi-Republican, and mutated the GOP from inside, wanted to further the might of the Democratic Party all along? Imagine this: a secret agent pretends to be all he despises, gets to the very top of the enemy ranks, rots them from the inside, and, hated both by his erstwhile party fellows and his disillusioned rabid supporters, thrusts victory after victory into the hands of its formal (and proclaimed) enemy. In a couple of years he steps down, ridiculed, but keeps his true allegiance secret, like a real hero.
Great outcome, though still a little disappointing that so many people had to feel the negative impact of Trump's incompetence on a personal level to get them to wake up, but better late than never.
Shame that the Democrats flubbed it in Florida (at the senate/governor level, they did get some nice House pickups due to the Republican dummymander).
Angie Nixon ran an incredible campaign and probably could have won if she got any significant support from the DNC.
Seems bad for data centers and AI, though the benefit of keeping the deranged president in check likely outweighs lost progress following from anti-tech populism.
> Seems bad for data centers and AI, though the benefit of keeping the deranged president in check
The data centers got rejected on their own basis [0]. While the Texas senator race was more about corruption and a picking a candidate that embodies Texas far more than his Trump hand picked opponent -- the Texas governor race is a clear message vote for data center restriction.
The Mississippi senate race is essentially tied, which is kind of an insane result. As well as the Democrats winning practically everything in Texas.
Dems are currently up 0.2% there, and markets put it at 84% likely a Dem win now. 6 hours ago it was 94% against.
In the senate race there 2 years ago, GOP won by a 26% margin. Different candidates now obviously, but that’s a huge swing. https://votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/2026-11-03/mississipp...
did all that last minute gerrymandering do nothing or did even make this possible?
Gerrymandering does not affect whole-state races like the Senate. Nobody is re-drawing state borders for every election.
And in some areas gerrymandering did backfire as far as I read, though I didn't look at the specifics.
Gerrymandering doesn't directly impact Senate races because they are state-wide (everyone in the whole state votes for their senators, it isn't district by district), but the Republican gerrymandering in general either backfired or had no real impact more than it helped them this cycle.
A lot of the Republican gerrymandered House districts assumed Latinos who voted for Trump quite a bit in 2024 would continue to do so, but seemingly they did not.
So screwed up that this was flagged. It seems all the election related posts were flagged. You have to wonder why the HN overlords aren't allowing such a major event to reach the front page.
As an Australian, I can say we are all very relieved.
Big collective sigh of relief here in Europe too, I imagine. Our economies have been hurting in no small part because of the unchecked whims of the MAGA inner circle.
Yeah me too as a Brit. The whole Trump buddying up with Putin to try to save his invasion was a bit of a worry.
Democracy still has a fighting chance in USA, and that’s good news.
Best wishes from Europe!
It’s a bloodbath for Republicans. Even the guy in charge of leading GOP efforts to win the House lost.
It is hard to be 'anti-establishment' when you are the establishment. That's one of the reasons why Trump won, lost, won the election.
Non-paywall: https://archive.is/laAzx
All I can say is: GOOD.
I feel quite sorry for the US voters having to pick from two fairly extreme ends of politics. Granted GOP appears significantly worse, however liberals funding things like free pet food etc feels equally non-vote-worthy.
Did… did you just say that “ICE murdering civilians” and “free pet food” are… equally extreme?
I don't know who's proposing tax paid pet food but is it that surprising more people would rather spend money on that than on wars in the middle east?
Where in the world do you live with an overton window smaller than the USA's? I think the general stance would be to feel sorry for US citizens having to pick between hardline corrupt right or neo-liberal establishment right, hardly a large gap between them. Even by US standards the current democrats are more right than when someone like Sanders was still in the running.
Extremes? Are you joking? The US "Left wing" is most other countries right-wing.
I think the point is more that there's no middle ground to distribute opinions more evenly.
I went with the title NYTimes gave it on their home page rather than the wordy header on the page itself. That's "Midterm Elections Live Updates: Democrats Seize Control of Congress as Voters Rebuke Trump"
Maybe Trump, a long-term Democrat who turned quasi-Republican, and mutated the GOP from inside, wanted to further the might of the Democratic Party all along? Imagine this: a secret agent pretends to be all he despises, gets to the very top of the enemy ranks, rots them from the inside, and, hated both by his erstwhile party fellows and his disillusioned rabid supporters, thrusts victory after victory into the hands of its formal (and proclaimed) enemy. In a couple of years he steps down, ridiculed, but keeps his true allegiance secret, like a real hero.
What a movie that could be.
I don't think we're gonna get our $5000 checks. LOL
Great outcome, though still a little disappointing that so many people had to feel the negative impact of Trump's incompetence on a personal level to get them to wake up, but better late than never.
Shame that the Democrats flubbed it in Florida (at the senate/governor level, they did get some nice House pickups due to the Republican dummymander).
Angie Nixon ran an incredible campaign and probably could have won if she got any significant support from the DNC.
Seems bad for data centers and AI, though the benefit of keeping the deranged president in check likely outweighs lost progress following from anti-tech populism.
> Seems bad for data centers and AI, though the benefit of keeping the deranged president in check
The data centers got rejected on their own basis [0]. While the Texas senator race was more about corruption and a picking a candidate that embodies Texas far more than his Trump hand picked opponent -- the Texas governor race is a clear message vote for data center restriction.
[0] https://datacentersontheballot.com