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- 7 days
As a non American, I’m confused by these graphs. What is the middle grey section?
It says “gained 7, lost 7” but there’s a 60 seat difference…
Does that mean the dems were already 40 odd ahead before this election?
- zarkony@lemmy.zipEnglish7 days
The ballots are still being counted. The middle grey areas are races that are still too close to call or don’t have enough ballots counted to say definitively.
7 gained means so far the democrats have flipped 7 seats previously held by republicans.
7 daysIt’s a little complicated. ALL House seats are up for election every two years. Senate seats are up every six. Governor seats are up to individual state rules.
So some seats are always up for grabs, others not.
- 7 days
Yay it happened. Now we sit here and watch nothing of substance change in any meaningful way for a majority of the citizens.
- Wataba@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 days
Yay it happened. Now there isnt a freefall into murdering people on the streets and openly collaborating with invasive pigs.
Shut up already.
- superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish7 days
They really need the presidency next if they want to start enacting real change. But this is a start, and it will allow them to start checking Trump’s power.
- 7 days
You don’t know what the future holds.
Perhaps some things will change for the better.
At the very least, Donald doesn’t have as much power as before.
- 6 days
I don’t know the future. I can hope that things will actually get better than they currently are, but the past has taught me whenever this happens and there’s a majority control of each branch, not a whole lot goes on.
There are a couple folks actually trying to move things forward, though it seems like the majority are fine with maintaining the status quo, even if that status quo keeps shifting right every time they don’t have majority control. I wonder if Bernie’s 32 hour work week bill was already shot down or if it’s still in play.
As for the oranges power, the only thing that changed for him is thankfully a significant decrease in making any lasting changes in the law. He’s still going to do whatever the hell he wants without any fucks given for the proper forms, laws, or protocols followed. Overreaching executive orders, Supreme Court complicity, and him just eroding nearly every single foreign relationship are still his main methods of operation.
- 6 days
The foreign relations are already fkd. Other countries aren’t sitting on their hands, waiting for Donald to throw another fit. Democrats have to decide if they’ll do something about the concerns of the workers.
Poor, pissed off voters who felt like nothing ever changes were successfully duped by orange. They didn’t all gravitate towards the worst aspects of maga. It’s easier to write it all off as racism than to listen to their grievances.
Is the Right going to help move things towards the Left? No. Of course no. The Left isn’t doing much other than neoliberal “free-market” crony-capitalism either. Their feet need to be held to fire and reminded they have a lot to lose as well if another Trump is elected again.
- 6 days
I read how people on here said that public executions are a part of fascism.
Do you think these republicans are intentionally fascist or just of fascist “nature”?
- 7 days
I love that all the campaigns to keep people from voting/voting blue failed. ❤️
And the money and the gerrymandering and the lies and the … Yeah, I feel ya.
- 7 days
News agencies are calling this a historic blowout, but from an external onlookers perspective, isn’t this really close?
Here’s a more updated version:
It’s no supermajority, but it is a blowout
- Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish6 days
Blowout? There is like a 5% difference, or am I reading it wrong?
It’s still too close, but that’s just how our (shitty) system works. Most seats aren’t going to flip. Alabama will always vote Republican and California will always vote Democrat, so our focus is really only on the close races.
We gained 25 seats in the House, seven in the Senate and five governors. That’s a huge swing.
- 6 days
Just want to point out that they used to say that Texas would always vote Republican. Now look at it.
- 7 days
What about when CA was red mere decades ago? Always? Things flip and change and come and go.
- 7 days
If Dems don’t cater to the working class, angry disenfranchised people will continue voting out of frustration.
- 7 days
I dunno man union workers tend to get a lot of benefit from the Dems and half of them still vote republican.
We don’t need catering to we need education.
- 6 days
Education is a factor but don’t boil it down to blue collar dudes all being uneducated oafs either
- sit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish7 days
As a German laymans pov:
- ~50% higher
- ~25% higher
- 100% higher
In my pov These are significant differences
- NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgEnglish7 days
Red had a thin majority in house and senate
Now blue has a slightly larger senate majority and landslide house. It would not take that much red cooperation to make overruling a veto be possible.
- kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish7 days
It would not take that much red cooperation to make overruling a veto be possible.
Theoretically, yes.
But I’m not optimistic that it will actually happen.
Me either, although him being a lame duck that has been repudiated by voters countrywide might make Republicans hesitate to continue following him in lockstep. He’s incredibly unpopular and will be gone in two years.
And hopefully can skip the conservative Dem divas threatening to trash the majority, as we had under Biden.
- NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgEnglish7 days
Yeah I don’t have faith in the Dems. Very happy maga movement is dead obviously but Dems are owned opposition, I’m expecting a whole lot of nothing over the next 2 years followed by campaigns centered on the lack of action from Dems.
