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[Megathread]Election Results and future prognostication
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As the title suggests, please post all your questions here until further notice.

Yeah, I'm a little slow on the uptake tonight - we went out and had a nice dinner and drinks since there wasn't much left to do except... drink.

Remember our rules and remember something more important - no more political ads! (Right? Please say I'm right...)

Edit: So my thoughts on last night since, well, I have a post here and I can edit.

First, contrary to what we've seen on reddit, this isn't a blue or red wave. Politics seemed to regress toward the norm with the Democrats taking the House but not by the 50 or more swing that many suggested. The Senate looks to be easily controlled by the Republicans (53 or 54 votes depending on how Arizona and Montana go).

The bigger news is that "out of place" victories and poll misses (again) - a Democrat won a seat in Oklahoma which I don't think anyone expected and the Georgia governor race was badly off and it looks like Abrams is going to lose. If we end up with the results as they stand per the NYT this morning, its going to leave some political insiders with a while to look. (Oh, and as an aside, how are we to use exit polls when so many people vote early/vote by mail? They didn't look too predictive at first glance)

I think the big picture going forward is that we'll have a lot of theater in the next two years (Democrats will investigate the President's tax, emoluments, mirror Mueller) but really nothing much happens outside of the Senate's confirmations of Trump's appointments. It will be a big test to see if Trump really is a masterful dealmaker - Democrats will be a reflexive "no" to most anything at first but with a more comfortable lead in the Senate, Republicans might not want bipartisanship.

Oh, and it also means more "legislation" by executive action. Yay.

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