Elections results (and possible recounts) are still coming in thick and fast, and political events in Washington have exploded anew — Constitutional crisis, here we come. But darn it, we cats are going to give you a round-up of our impressions from last night. Just try and stop us.
There was a lot of ugly stuff going on yesterday, and we don't just mean losing McCaskill, Heitcamp and Donnelly. (Nelson's waiting for the recount.) Nope, the Republicans' cheating and skullduggery, all in the name of voter suppression, were insidious and rampant — the story of the night. But we have a message for all those Democratic challengers who ran good races against entrenched or reprehensible incumbents and who came up short: Don't stop. Sometimes, as the GOP has shown time and again, it takes more than one run to flip a seat.
The 2018 midterms showed that any Democrat with 2020 ambitions must spend 2019 looking beyond the same old, tired Iowa-New Hampshire-South Carolina-Nevada contests — and focus on a run-everywhere strategy instead. Just sayin'.
We're going to send condolences to our Congresswoman, Republican Elise Stefanik. Not because she lost her race — she didn't — but because she's going to be mighty lonely in her caucus next year. Back in June, Elise was boasting about the female Republicans she was recruiting to run. But nearly 90 percent of the women elected to the House yesterday were Democrats. SAD!
Finally, on a more serious note: The gubernatorial results in Florida were a total bummer. Not just because Andrew Gillum was a terrific candidate and would have made a wonderful governor — and not just because it's inconceivable that Floridians, drowning in Red Tide, would continue voting Republican — but because it was so clearly a vote against Gillum as a black man. We admit it: We had no idea back in 2008 how much white resentment and fury had been unleashed by the election of Barack Obama. It's showing its ugly face now. We cats HISS.
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