10 observations on the failed blue wave

Republicans lost five governorships last night, but some of that was due to bad candidate recruitment and overexposure in blue states.

Ultimately, the red areas got redder, the blue ones got bluer, and Republicans were on the short end of the battle for swing voters in a midterm.

Once Trump's personality became a problem with certain suburban voters and Republicans failed to enact an agenda to inspire them back into the fold, they lost those voters.

7) Democrats have a very tenuous majority, their worst outcome headed into 2020: If the goal of maintaining the House is to impeach Trump, then control of the House might have been worthwhile for Democrats.

In many ways, coming just short of flipping the House would have been the best result for Democrats to win the White House, because Republicans would be even more impotent but still have the liability of being in full control.

If McConnell forces issues past the Senate, it will embolden conservatives in the House to drive a wedge between the radical 90 percent of the House Democrat caucus and the 10 percent they need to keep the majority but who don't want to appear as off-the-wall crazy.

9) We need a new leader in the House: Are we going to continue with the same failed House leadership under Kevin McCarthy? We need Jim Jordan as minority leader for two reasons.


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