Re the Maine vote. Maine also has the highest population 65+ (I’m sure this by %, as Maine’s pop is only ~1.5 million). That age demographic turns out, but I’m sure they like the ease of voting by mail.
Wonderful to read about the victories in other states including Mississippi and Georgia. People are horrified and sickened by Trump’s initiatives and the hateful MAGA project to shift even more wealth to the ultra wealthy and decimate health insurance, SNAP and voting rights. Maine needs to get moving to defeat Susan Collins. The GOP has become an extension of Trump’s personally, vicious, irresponsible and cruel. Let’s take out the trash!
Thank you for this article. We do need to hear more about these smaller races, especially since the usual MAGA misinformation sources seem to be going with “Democrats won in Democrat cities, no surprise there” as their election recap. It shouldn’t matter too much what Fox News says, but if the 2025 elections turn out to presage another landslide for Dems in 2026, it takes the air out of claims that there’s something fraudulent about Dems winning big “suddenly” in 2026. We need voters to see that this is a building wave, not a sneaker wave.
This first battle in the war has lit the fuse. Soon, those maps you highlight are going to be more purple, heading toward blue-violet…it’s already happening. I have been talking to my neighbors here in rural Ohio. They are not happy either. I bet they’re wishing they would have passed the commission-drawn maps instead of letting the Ohio Legislature continue to guarantee paychecks for the candidates of their choice. The tide is most definitely turning, and that going to make them more dangerous. It’s going to be a wild year until midterms. Thank, Liz and Joe. 💙🤍❤️ It was worth the wait… (I have been up since four waiting for PN’s morning post ❣️
Thanks for the extra news. Frankly far to much attention has been paid to the least impressive bit of good news for the Democrats: a Democrat candidate winning in strongly Democratic New York. Far more important and heartening news arrived on election day. The decisive move of the Latino vote away from its strong Republican drift in the last 10 years for starters.
Hopefully the viciously anti-Latino conduct of ICE with the active support of the Republicans will be remembered for a very long time.
Also, Monroe County, NY, which includes Rochester, and one of the highest population towns in the country. Greece, flip to blue. The city of Rochester is reliably blue, but the suburbs were a GOP stronghold, until Tuesday. How's this for a flip? Greece, NY, has elected a Democrat, Jeff McCann, as town supervisor, breaking a Republican hold that lasted over a century.
In our city of Kalispell at the heart of a VERY red county, a reasonable guy won the nonpartisan mayor's race over a woman who constantly emphasized how conservative she is and ran a whole campaign about how the eventual winner was a radical commie liberal because he once lived in Portland. If was a great surprise and perhaps a smallish-town indicator that people are sick of the "conservatives."
Thanks for fighting the fight Aaron. Lots of bright spots from Tuesday for a change. Sadly, Nassau County is a bit of a MAGA shitshow like Staten Island and the Jersey Shore area. That being said looks like Blakeman was “only” +8 not the +12 drubbing you low-lighted. Still not great but … All in all the saner side still has lots of great results to raise glasses to. May 2026 be an even stronger Big D wave🙏🙏👍👍✌️
Re the Maine vote. Maine also has the highest population 65+ (I’m sure this by %, as Maine’s pop is only ~1.5 million). That age demographic turns out, but I’m sure they like the ease of voting by mail.
Wonderful to read about the victories in other states including Mississippi and Georgia. People are horrified and sickened by Trump’s initiatives and the hateful MAGA project to shift even more wealth to the ultra wealthy and decimate health insurance, SNAP and voting rights. Maine needs to get moving to defeat Susan Collins. The GOP has become an extension of Trump’s personally, vicious, irresponsible and cruel. Let’s take out the trash!
From political party to vicious cult.
Thank you for this article. We do need to hear more about these smaller races, especially since the usual MAGA misinformation sources seem to be going with “Democrats won in Democrat cities, no surprise there” as their election recap. It shouldn’t matter too much what Fox News says, but if the 2025 elections turn out to presage another landslide for Dems in 2026, it takes the air out of claims that there’s something fraudulent about Dems winning big “suddenly” in 2026. We need voters to see that this is a building wave, not a sneaker wave.
This first battle in the war has lit the fuse. Soon, those maps you highlight are going to be more purple, heading toward blue-violet…it’s already happening. I have been talking to my neighbors here in rural Ohio. They are not happy either. I bet they’re wishing they would have passed the commission-drawn maps instead of letting the Ohio Legislature continue to guarantee paychecks for the candidates of their choice. The tide is most definitely turning, and that going to make them more dangerous. It’s going to be a wild year until midterms. Thank, Liz and Joe. 💙🤍❤️ It was worth the wait… (I have been up since four waiting for PN’s morning post ❣️
Thanks for reading, Lisa!
Your posts are usually the first I read with my morning coffee ❤️
Sorry about my typing… fat fingers and crappy proof reading😂
Sadly, good writing does not equal good typing.
Thanks for the extra news. Frankly far to much attention has been paid to the least impressive bit of good news for the Democrats: a Democrat candidate winning in strongly Democratic New York. Far more important and heartening news arrived on election day. The decisive move of the Latino vote away from its strong Republican drift in the last 10 years for starters.
Hopefully the viciously anti-Latino conduct of ICE with the active support of the Republicans will be remembered for a very long time.
Also, Monroe County, NY, which includes Rochester, and one of the highest population towns in the country. Greece, flip to blue. The city of Rochester is reliably blue, but the suburbs were a GOP stronghold, until Tuesday. How's this for a flip? Greece, NY, has elected a Democrat, Jeff McCann, as town supervisor, breaking a Republican hold that lasted over a century.
In our city of Kalispell at the heart of a VERY red county, a reasonable guy won the nonpartisan mayor's race over a woman who constantly emphasized how conservative she is and ran a whole campaign about how the eventual winner was a radical commie liberal because he once lived in Portland. If was a great surprise and perhaps a smallish-town indicator that people are sick of the "conservatives."
Celebrate now … I’m sure CIC is gaming the institution of martial law.
Thanks for fighting the fight Aaron. Lots of bright spots from Tuesday for a change. Sadly, Nassau County is a bit of a MAGA shitshow like Staten Island and the Jersey Shore area. That being said looks like Blakeman was “only” +8 not the +12 drubbing you low-lighted. Still not great but … All in all the saner side still has lots of great results to raise glasses to. May 2026 be an even stronger Big D wave🙏🙏👍👍✌️
We mapped the BIG BLUE WAVE that swept America
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/11/05/big-blue-wave-map/