Some musings while I wait for the final count in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona.
- Exit polls have proven to be pretty iffy in the past. With such a high percentage of votes by mail, how can exit polls have any validity this year?
- Still pretty disappointed at the moderate Dems who want to blame everything on the lefties in the party. I am in favor of a broad big tent, and once again I voted for a candidate way the to right of me, and I did so gladly. We even gave money to all those moderate Senate candidates who lost. But it seems like too many in the party want our votes but not our voice. Telling people they are welcome in the party as long as they shut up is hardly a way to build a broad and lasting coalition.
- This article from Jacobin offers an alternative take to the mostly fawning image of the Lincoln Project. If they helped beat Trump, that's great. But if it means that these Republicans are setting the policy agenda, it's not good. According to this piece, Trump got a higher percentage of white women than he did against Hillary did in '16 (but as I said above, not sure how much stock to put into exit polls this year). And if it sucked oxygen out of the economic message that was needed in the House races, it also might have hurt.
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