Of squishes and not-so-big stars

Drudge is reporting that three of the stars of the "new" Democratic Party, Gillums in Florida, O'Rourke in Texas, and Abrams in Georgia have been defeated. I was happy to see Mike Braun win in Indiana, as I was worried the Libertarian candidate would subtract from his total.

The horrible news of the night is that Nancy Pelosi's Democrats will now have a narrow majority in the House. 14 House seats have flipped from Republican to Democrat, while only 1 flipped from Democrat to Republican. Why do I say horrible? Because the Dems will prevent any further revelations of corruption in the Obama Justice Department and FBI and life won't get any easier for our President.

I was really happy to see Ron DeSantis win the Governor race in Florida.

Glenn Reynolds reports at Instapundit,

Mitt Romney wins in Utah. I expect him to fill the Corker/Flake squish role.

Final forecasts in the races for the House and Senate

For what it is worth here are the final forecasts of the FiveThirtyEight blog in the races for the Senate and the House. They missed the Trump election badly, but are still highly regarded for some reason.

Okay, now I must go find someone else to talk to!

At about the 1:43 mark in this video, the CNN reporter asks a Georgia voter whom she voted for in the governor's race. She tells him, and then says, "I always vote conservative. "I always vote for freedom!" He responds, "freedom! Okay, this is a loyal Republican here," and abruptly does an about-face to find someone else to talk to!

Go For It!

credit Bookworm

One reason to vote Republicans into House seats

Sessions and Rosenstein

Will the Congressional investigations go away if the Democrats win the majority of the House in the midterm elections? Lee Smith, writing in Real Clear Investigations, takes a look at that issue here.

She can't wait!

Will it all backfire?

One of my favorite blogs is Betsy's Page. Today she comments on

controversial decisions and actions that the Democrats have put off for after the election.

She mentions

Obamacare rate increases, Keystone Pipeline, immigration action, and the report on Bowe Bergdahl's desertion.

Then she links to a piece by Tom Bevan, entitled "Is Democrats' Kick-the-Can Strategy Backfiring?" Bevan writes:

The number of significant issues they have attempted to kick down the road and dodge until after the midterms is substantial -- and growing by the day.

The Keystone XL pipeline, having already been punted by the president in two previous elections, remains in limbo, buried deep within the bowels of the State Department.

In April, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would delay issuing a regulation forcing new power plants to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions until after the midterm elections.

In September, President Obama, at the behest of vulnerable Senate Democrats -- and to the chagrin of many Latinos -- decided to delay taking executive action on immigration until after November.

This week we learned that Obama acquiesced to another request by Senate Democrats: to delay naming a new attorney general until after the election for fear that a “controversial nominee” might harm their 2014 midterm chances.

Read more of Betsy here.
Read more of Tom here.