JUDGMENT DAY: The 2022 Midterms

Hate to do this, but I've been at this for eight hours straight and without any real updates in over an hour.

So I'm calling it quits for the night and will try to get at least some sleep before picking back up in the morning.

Thanks for being here. As always, it's a real pleasure doing this for you.

I didn't have to stay up this late to get results from Brazil.

Nevada remains stalled at 35% reporting, and that's just not enough to know a damn thing. 

It looks likely that we got rolled by the wokesters. 

I'll have more on this later in the week.

RCP confirming my R+4 math from a short while ago. 

Gooder and harder: Murray fends off GOP challenge in Washington Senate race.

I have no counter to this.

Lots of thinking to do starting tomorrow. 

Still holding out for more House races and numbers out of Nevada...

Another flip, and it's the feel-good event of the evening.

DCCC chair Sean Patrick Maloney (NY17) has lost to Michael Lawler.

I think we're at R+4.

Not looking good here: Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert is trailing with most votes counted in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.

Boebert is kind of a kook, and I mean that as praise. Besides, our Congress has always been a welcome place for kooks, halfwits, criminals, passionate fools, and other folks who could never get elected in those "better" countries.

But Congress should look like America, and we're a big, messy country.

Anyway, I like Boebert -- a down-home gun nut who got elected to our crazy Congress. Maybe she'll make a comeback. America is like that, too.

I saw this a couple of hours ago but hesitated sharing it.

Edit: I have to expand on this.

Primaries are like in The Godfather when the Five Families went "to the mattresses." It has to happen, we're told, every few years to "get the bad blood out."

We can rip and shred each other all we need or want during the primaries.

During the general election, however, the infighting has to stop.

Get behind the candidate, even if they weren't your choice. Because one of your worst guys is still better than one of their best guys when it comes to crafting, moving, and voting on legislation.

We can't have a de facto party leader who isn't a party man.

NBC calls PA Senate for Fetterman.

We still have hope in Nevada, but I also wrote this in August: Yeah, Trump's Dr. Oz Endorsement Probably Cost Us the Senate.

It's time to switch to brandy.

Not a wave, but yeah, the GOP will still likely squeak by in the House.

77 House races to go.

NY03 looks like a pickup for Santos, who will be the first openly gay GOP congressman.

R+3, if I'm doing my math right.

RCP doesn't show it yet, but that ought to be R+2 now.

From Rogue Rose in the comments:

We need to reevaluate if we can't overwhelmingly defeat a barely functioning deadbeat in PA and a slumlord in GA. Take tomorrow off, then we need to get back to it. Organize, organize, organize. At the precinct level up.

That's right. We believe in things worth fighting for, things a bit more noble than raiding the treasury and enabling petty woke tyrants. 

Mike Lee holds off the egghead in Utah, no thanks to Mittens and McConnell. 

Dems picked off two more seats in CA to the GOP flipping just one. 

R+1 nationwide. 

As my friend Kruiser likes to remind you, school board races are the breeding grounds for future candidates to higher office.