Mellanårsvalet 2018

Colorado makes history with the first openly gay governor in the U.S.

Freshman Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb ousts 3-term GOP Rep. Keith Rothfus in race between incumbents near Pittsburgh.

@BernieSanders: "We have a president of the #UnitedStates who is a pathological liar"

Problem No. 1 for Democrats is that they don’t have a clear path to a majority. Even if they were to win all of the “toss-up” Senate races, plus all of the races in which they’re favored, they’d wind up stuck at 50 seats, with Republicans also having 50 seats and Vice President Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote to preserve a GOP majority. Instead, Democrats will have to win at least one of the races that our model currently deems as “lean Republican” or “likely Republican” — namely North Dakota, Texas, Tennessee or (less plausibly) the Mississippi special election.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-need-a-systematic-polling-error-to-win-the-senate/

A Native American lesbian Democrat from Kansas is heading to Congress!

Democratic challenger Sharice Davids has defeated Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder for Kansas' 3rd Congressional district.

VA 2 a big pick-up for Dems. That was a Trump +4 district.

@chrislhayes

Wow. Democrat Max Rose pulled it off in Staten Island (and a little Bklyn) in a Trump district. Another big pick-up not quite in the first tier low hanging fruit.