While I'm Waiting for Pennsylvania

• Indiana is amazing to me. Obama carried it in '08. In '20 (with 84% of the vote in) Trump is up by 59-38. It's really become a southern state. More southern than Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina. What makes it even more amazing is how Trump used the state for photo ops about keeping jobs in the state,  and then all those jobs left anyway as soon as Trump was out of sight. He doesn't give a rat's ass about workers, but they are convinced he has their back. Hard to figure.
• With the Democratic majority reduced in the House somewhat in this election, we will have to face the significant probability/possibility that they could lose control of the House in the 2022 off-year elections, if history holds.
• I predicted a long time ago that the centrist Dems were setting up the left to take the blame if things didn't work out as they hoped. Sure enough, there's this story in today's Washington Post describing a meeting of Congressional Dems, where the Blue Dogs and other centrists blame the left for them losing some of the seats they flipped in 2018. This is entirely to expected. The centrists always take credit for successes and blame others for failures. If the only way for Dems to succeed is to appear less committed to justice, antiracism, affordable health care, opposition to police murders, etc., that is not a sustainable or desirable strategy. Apparently these white suburbanites are not reliable coalition partners if they jump ship so easily. Maybe the Dems need to solidify their true base by getting more young people of all colors to come out and vote. Telling people that it is bad to fight for what they believe in is hardly a message I am willing to get on board with.