re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

so she won…

the grift lottery

I’m looking forward to the DSCC (and DCCC) post-mortems on what went wrong in the downticket races. From afar, Gideon seemed to me to have been a pretty solid candidate running a decent campaign against what should have been the weakest incumbent the GOP had on offer (aside from McSally and Gardner), and yet she got whomped.

I understand how some of the other insurgent Senate candidates lost - I was never a fan of McGrath in Kentucky (who tried too hard to play Republican-lite), and I knew Hegar was a long shot in Texas. And don’t get me started on Cal Cunningham, who should be exiled from politics for life after screwing up a nearly sure thing in NC.

But Harrison in SC? Boillier in Kansas? Bullock in MT? We should have captured at least a few of those tossup races, and we got all but swept. I’m still hopeful that the GA runoffs will go our way - but if not for Georgia’s runoff system, let’s not forget we’d have lost those seats, too. (Assuming that in the absence of a runoff, there’d have been primaries, that Loeffler would have defeated Collins in a GOP primary, and that the votes that went to both Loeffler and Collins in the runoff would have coalesced behind Loeffler on election day to defeat Warnock.)

Perhaps this was just the year that the presidential race was going to suck every molecule of oxygen out of the room. Perhaps the downticket races were the ones that suffered from Democrats being responsible and not holding in-person campaign events. Like I said… I want to see the post-mortems.

But in the meantime, I have no beef with Sara Gideon.