Why does it take so long to count?
FWIW :
White men as a share of House Democrats is set to decline from 41% to 38% as a result of this election.
Meanwhile, the percentage of white men as a share of House Republicans is on track to rise from 86% to 90%
Non white-women have already seen the light and vote for Ds in droves.
One of these days, white American women shall too see the light....
Results keep coming in....after the latest win by Cisneros, Orange County (aka Reagan County) is red no more.
Now that we are almost all done, its time to look and see - yup, it was a record:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...ctions-turnout
Pond Ripple
Thats cute - it was a term being thrown around on the election night but now the results are pretty much solidified, the consensus is : yup, it was a big blue wave.
One of the interesting bit of numbers from the night :
Trump won with around 63 million votes in 2016
Dems mustered around 60 million votes in 2018
Thats yuge for a mid term election
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-wave-was-real