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If the Democrats can hold this to R+2 in the Senate I'll be... well, not happy, but I'll be mostly okay with calling this a good night. If it's R+3 (probably the most likely) I'll be kinda grumpy but that doesn't diminish what was accomplished in the House and Governors' races (even if some of the losses there also hurt). If MT does a heel-turn and we end at R+4 I'll hate life. Well, even more.

The thing about the popular vote is that while yeah, Democrats are crushing it, it's no surprise that they are - they're the party that enjoys the support of the majority, but the political system here is atrocious and it simply doesn't matter between gerrymandering and the Senate being anti-democratic as f***.

For comparison, the Democrats here are winning the popular vote more now than the Republicans did in 2010.. and in that election Republicans won 60+ House Seats and 6 Senate seats. The Democrats win by even more than that and it's ~35 House Seats and losing ~3 Senate Seats. It's a farce and anti-democratic as all hell and there's no simple solution to it.

Winning governor races is big because they're the ones who will draw the new House districts for the next decade but the Senate itself is just a problem that can't be easily solved because like hell will the Republicans give up their built-in advantage regardless of how anti-democratic it is. Abolishing it would be the ideal solution but lmao that's not happening. A short term band-aid would be granting statehood to places like DC, Puerto Rico, Guam but... you need the Senate to do that.

The US has some real anti-democratic systems built deep into it, and it was all done intentionally by design and I'm not sure how sustainable it is in the long run.
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