Tuesday Night Sucked. Now, Get Over It.
Kurt Schlichter
I've been watching elections since 1972 – yeah, I was that second-grader who cared that Richard Nixon won, even though Justin Poe assured me it was because Nixon voted for himself 20 times. I've had great nights – Reagan 1980, the 1994 midterms, Trump 2016, and Trump 2024 – and bad nights. This was a bad night, really bad, bleak without a single ray of light through the clouds, an electoral abortion of Roe v. Wade levels. But here's a hard truth about elections from a lot of these nights. Some election nights are good, some nights are meh, and some nights suck. Tuesday night sucked.
But it didn't super suck. While we lost everything, the end result was not a disaster of Obama 2012 proportions. Well, except for NYC, but they can live with that. The election was the equivalent of walking down a Scat Francisco sidewalk barefoot after a hobo chili cook-off, but it did not illustrate any great new truths that doom us in one year in the midterms. It illustrated old truths. It just sucked, and it's important that we learn what we can from it and get ready for 2026.
I predicted it, as did most observers. In Virginia, New Jersey, California, and New York, Democrat jurisdictions voted for … wait for it … you're not gonna believe this … the Democrats. I'm a great believer in Occam's Razor – the simplest explanation is probably the explanation. And the most likely explanation for Democrats winning in Democrat jurisdictions is that they were Democrats.
But it still sucks.
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