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Books Read and Reviewed in October 2024!
Here it is already the end of another month. Where does the time go? I have been busy as usual reading some wonderful books for the month of October of 2024. Here are the 12 books I read and reviewed for October. I might have read even more if I didn’t have a few WIP. But I always seemed to have a WIP! That fact never stops me! I hope you enjoy reading these reviews. I love sharing my eclectic…
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Ramble of the month March 2024: Phase 5 of the Batman Begins-Led DCEU
With April set aside for an autism-centric monthly ramble and February utilised for phase 5 of my 90’s-based alternate MCU, March takes on the role of show-casing phase 5 of my hypothetical Batman Begins-led DC film-verse. As DC is more prone to content reboots than Marvel, this latest phase will actually ramp up to just such a reboot, with “phase 6” actually being phase 1 of a new DC film-verse. Unlike the real DCEU, that reboot will be better planned, but first let’s re-cap the previous four phases.
Phase 1:
2005: Batman Begins
2006: Man of Steel
2007: Wonder Woman
2008: The Dark Knight, Green Lantern
2009: The Flash, Man of Steel 2
2010: Aquaman, Justice League
Phase 2:
2011: Wonder Woman 2, Green Lantern 2, Green Arrow
2012: Hawkman, Batman/Superman, Aquaman 2
2013: John Constantine, The Flash 2, Suicide Squad
2014: Justice League 2, Green Arrow 2, Batman: The Long Crusade
Phase 3:
2015: Shazam, Man of Steel 3, The Atom
2016: Wonder Woman 3, Batgirl, Teen Titans
2017: Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Shazam vs Black Adam, Suicide Squad 2
2018: Justice League: Darkseid Rising, Aquaman 3, Doom Patrol
Phase 4:
2019: Superman: Doomsday, New Gods, Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
2020: Suicide Squad: Arkham, Knightfall, Green Arrow 3
2021: Reign of the Supermen, Green Lantern: Twilight, Knightsend
2022: Justice League: Armageddon, Teen Titans 3, Justice Society
Phase 1, of course, acts as a means of establishing the DC Universe for film fans prior to forming the Justice League. Phase 2 then builds on that foundation while also causing a schism within the Justice League by adapting the “Tower of Babel” story arc into Justice League 2. Green Arrow 2 then proves Batman’s point about safeguarding against rogue heroes, which some films in phase 3 follow up on. Phase 4 then focuses on the falls of many heroes, some of which stay down and some of which return. However, as phase 4 ended, Hal Jordan was revealed to have gone rogue, which phase 5 will pick up from. This is how the phase 5 slate would shape up overall.
Phase 5:
2023: Justice League: World’s Finest, Nightwing, The Killing Joke
2024: Supergirl, Birds of Prey, Flashpoint
Compared to past phases, phase 5 is only half the size, and while the opening film deals with the issue of Hal Jordan becoming Parallax, most of the other films are one-shots or sequels to tell some interesting stories ahead of the Flashpoint film. So, let’s start by taking a look at these various phase 5 films.
Justice League: World’s Finest (2023) Directed by The Russo Brothers
Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent = Brandon Routh
Bruce Wayne/Batman = Christian Bale
Diana/Wonder Woman = Kate Beckinsale
J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter = Chiwetel Ejiofor
Arthur Curry/Aquaman = Chris Pine
Kyle Rayner/Green Lantern II = Taylor Lautner
Wallace "Wally" West/Flash II = Calum Worthy
Green Lantern/Hal Jordan/Parallax = Ben Affleck
John Stewart = Derek Luke
Guy Gardner = Damian Lewis
Fire/Beatriz Bonilla da Costa = Selena Gomez
Ice/Tora Olafsdotter = Kristine Froseth
Dinah Lance/Black Canary = Malin Akerman
John Henry Irons/Steel = Aldis Hodge
Kara Zor-El/Supergirl = Dakota Fanning
Connor Hawke/Green Arrow II = Levon Hawke
Lex Luthor = Kelsey Grammer
Mercy Graves = Scarlett Johannsen
Koriand'r/Starfire = Elle Fanning
Dusk = Ella Balinska
Blackfire/Komand'r = Virginia Gardner
Ferro/Andrew Nolan = Garrett Wareing
Mon-El/Lar Gand = Milo Manheim
Brainiac-5/Querl Dox = Karan Brar
Saturn Girl/Imra Ardeen = Dove Cameron
Lightning Lad/Garth Ranzz = Tye Sheridan
Cosmic Boy/Rokk Kirnn = Dylan Minnette
Starman/Thom Kallor = Ty Simpkins
Dream Girl/Nura Nal = Sabrina Carpenter
Karate Kid/Val Armorr = Aramis Knight
Sensor Girl/Projectra = Angourie Rice
Amanda Waller = Viola Davis
Floyd Lawton/Deadshot = Christian Slater
Jaina Hudson/White Rabbit = Hayley Kiyoko
Eve Eden/Nightshade = Debby Ryan
Dr Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy = April Bowlby
Dr Niles Caulder/The Chief = Pierce Brosnan
Clifford Steele/Robot Man = Johnny Whitworth
Larry Trainor/Negative Man = Alessandro Nivola
Rita Farr/Elasti-Girl = Alyssa Milano
Mento/Steve Dayton = Nathan Fillion
Bumblebee/Karen Beecher = Kyla Pratt
Vox/Malcom Duncan = Donald Glover
This film is based on the events of the Justice League story arc The Final Hour, in which the Justice League and others try to stop an alien being called the Sun Eater from devouring Earth’s sun, only for Hal Jordan to ultimately sacrifice himself to save Earth by absorbing the Sun Eater and reigniting the sun. The film version would be slightly different in numerous details, but by-and-large the main thrust of the story would remain the same. The League would be the main focus, with Luthor, a few members of future super-team the Legion of Superheroes and a couple of others being heavily featured due to the story arc involved. The Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad are also featured to lesser degrees during scenes showing the wider crisis in what is essentially a superhero disaster film.
Direction-wise, I’d put this film in the hands of the Russo brothers based on their work for the MCU, especially Infinity War and Endgame in the Avengers run of films. Indeed, like Infinity War and Endgame, I also gave the Russos direction of Justice League: Armageddon to keep things consistent across both films. In terms of cast, most cast members have appeared on prior films, with only the characters from Dusk down to Sensor Girl being new cast members coming in fresh on this film.
Nightwing (2023) Directed by Guy Ritchie
Richard Grayson/Robin/Nightwing = Patrick Schwarzenegger
Roland Desmond/Blockbuster = Adam Driver
Lady Elaine Marsh-Morton/Lady Vic = Florence Pugh
Talon/William Cobb = Evan Peters
Amy Rohrbach = Elizabeth Olsen
Elise Svoboda = Alexandra Stan
Gannon Malloy = Max Lloyd-Jones
Comissioner Gil Maclean = Michael Ealy
Mr Nice/James Nice = Sam Reid
In the first of our one-shot films, we get a solo outing for Batman’s original protégé Dick Grayson as he tries to clean up the corruption of Bludhaven by working for their local police force. As the film progresses, Nightwing finds himself caught between local crime lord Blockbuster and a plot involving the infamous Court of Owls of Gotham legend. Outside Patrick Schwarzenegger reprising the role of Dick Grayson, the cast is completely new to this DCEU, and in honour of his great work on crime-centric films, I’ve picked Guy Ritchie to serve in the director role.
The Killing Joke (2023) Directed by Christopher Nolan
Bruce Wayne/Batman = Christian Bale
Barbara Gordon/Batgirl = Bella Thorne
Tim Drake/Robin II = David Mazouz
The Joker = Willem Dafoe
Lucius Fox = Morgan Freeman
James "Jim" Gordon = Gary Oldman
Jeannie/Becky Moore = Georgie Henley
Comedian/Young Joker = David Corenswent
Patrolman Robert Moore = Grant Gustin
Mitch = Scott Eastwood
Murray = Drew Powell
Det. Harvey Bullock = Donal Logue
Det. Renee Montoya = Penelope Cruz
When DC and WB did an animated Killing Joke adaptation, they had the right idea in terms of expanding the story beyond the Alan Moore-written graphic novel. However, they expanded it incorrectly by having an unrelated preceding 30 minutes that served more to facilitate Bruce Timm’s shipping of a Bruce-Barbara relationship than to make a well-expanded narrative. This film begins with the Joker being apprehended, hatching his scheme in Arkham, and then a short while later, we get the original Killing Joke plot in the film’s middle.
The end is then expanded, first by taking from a prose novel adaptation I’ve read where Batman laughing with the Joker turns into Batman almost giving in to the temptation to kill Joker. After this, Joker sees a woman who he thinks is the dead wife from his flashbacks and breaks out to “find the truth”. When Batman confronts Joker for a third time, the question is left hanging as to whether the Joker’s past was true or not, and a post-credits scene sets up for Barbara becoming Oracle. Direction-wise, I figure that only Christopher Nolan would do well adapting this material into a live-action narrative. Casting-wise, the film is mostly existing cast reprising past roles, with only the characters linked to Joker’s back-story being fresh castings.
Supergirl (2024) Directed by Reese Witherspoon
Kara Zor-El/Supergirl = Dakota Fanning
Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent = Brandon Routh
Cat Grant = January Jones
Jimmy Olsen = Rider Strong
Winslow Schott Jr. = David Henrie
Lena Luthor = Spencer Grammer
Zor-El = Henry Cavill
Alura Zor-El = Rebecca Hazelwood
Astra In-Ze = Rebecca Hazelwood
Non = Ryan McPartlin
Vartox = James Murray
Indigo/Brainiac-8 = Letitia Wright
Capt. Crispus Allen = Djimon Honsou
Det. Peter Foley = Matt Le Blanc
This film gives us a solo film outing for Supergirl that is partly based on the first season of the character’s Arrowverse TV show. In other words, we see Kara starting out on her own life in another city and having to clash with her villainous aunt and uncle, as well as Indigo, a time-displaced villain in the Brainiac family tree. For direction, I’ve picked Reese Witherspoon as I know in recent years she’s taken up production and is very passionate about female-led stories and story-telling, so I think she’d be a great fit to make a directorial debut on a character like Supergirl.
Birds of Prey (2024) Directed by Patty Jenkins
Dinah Lance/Black Canary = Malin Akerman
Barbara Gordon/Oracle = Bella Thorne
Cassandra Cain/Batgirl = Momona Tamada
Helena Bertinelli/Huntress II = Alexandra Daddario
Zinda Blake/Lady Blackhawk = Rita Ora
Det. Renee Montoya = Penelope Cruz
Noah Kuttler/Calculator = Tom Cavanagh
Scandal Savage = Katie Leung
Knockout = Ireland Baldwin
Thomas Blake/Catman = Luke Grimes
Floyd Lawton/Deadshot = Christian Slater
Bane = Rodrigo Santoro
For the penultimate phase 5 film, we’re giving the Birds of Prey super-team their chance to shine, albeit better than they did in the real DCEU. More comics-accurate castings and character selections, including leaving out Harley Quinn (who, if you remember my phase 4 ramble, is killed off in the last Suicide Squad film). In this film, we see Barbara recruit a number of street-level heroes to tackle a criminal group known as the Secret Six. The film follows up on plot threads from Knightfall, Knightsend and Killing Joke, and also uses Cassandra Cain as Batgirl like in the comics, another elements the real DCEU Birds of Prey got wrong. Patty Jenkins of the real DCEU’s Wonder Woman films helms the project from a directorial standpoint.
Flashpoint (2024) Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Barry Allen/The Flash = Matt Damon
Thomas Wayne/Flashpoint Batman = Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Oliver Queen/Green Arrow = Ethan Hawke
John Constantine = Matt Ryan
Jason Blood/Etrigan = Eddie Redmayne
Victor Stone/Cyborg = Ashton Sanders
Citizen Cold/Leonard Snart = Rob Lowe
Superman/Kal-El = Brandon Routh
Nora Allen = Cybill Shepherd
Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash = Jake Gyllenhaal
Diana/Wonder Woman = Kate Beckinsale
Arthur Curry/Aquaman = Chris Pine
Billy Batson/Shazam = Zachary Gordon/Zachary Levi
Freddy Freeman = Chandler Riggs
Darla Dudley = Quvenzhané Wallis
Mary Bromfield = Halston Sage
Eugene Choi = Hudson Yang
Pedro Peña = Rico Rodriguez
Hal Jordan = Ben Affleck
Martha Wayne/Flashpoint Joker = Marg Helgenberger
Yo-Yo = Margot Robbie
During the events of Justice League: Armageddon, Barry Allen’s Flash became lost in the timestream. When he gets out, he enters an alternate reality where Aquaman and Wonder Woman are at war, and many heroes are missing or dead, including Barry’s speedster alter ego. Thus begins a mission to learn the truth of why events have changed, and the climax will reboot the DCEU. While this film simply uses the title of Flashpoint, it’s based more on the DC animated version from the DCAMU as that’s the main Flashpoint story I’ve seen and recall. Of course, the rest of the alternative DCEU I’ve laid out prior to this film alters some other aspects as well, including how Barry exits the timestream and why history was changed. Direction-wise, I had to pick Robert Zemeckis just because as the guy who directed the Back to the Future trilogy and the 2009 Disney version of A Christmas Carol, he is probably the best director for anything with a time travel component.
This concludes our phase 5 for the alternate DCEU, and this specific version of the DCEU. When I do phase 6 on my 90’s MCU, the first (and for now only) phase of my rebooted hypothetical DCEU will be hot on its heels. So, until next time, ta-ta for now.
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im making a big list of DC’s disabled characters to chronicle how the comics treat them
(already made a list that got some reblogs here (link) a gazillion years ago)
On my list i am NOT including characters who the reader believes/headcanons as disabled, only characters who are in text disabled
send me disabled characters, heroes and villains
(on the heroes side, an astrik * means that they have been written as villains at one point, even if they returned to heroic roles or it was retconned as OOC, because this is to analyze how the characters were treated by the writers. Some characters on this list may have been written as that way but missing the astrik because I did not read that arc with them yet)
so far ive got
Heroes
Barbara Gordon (Oracle) - paralyzed, uses a wheelchair - magicured
Wendy Harris (Proxy) - paralyzed, uses a wheelchair
Victor Stone (Cyborg) - missing large sections of his body, replaced with cybernetics
Joseph Wilson (Jericho) - nonverbal
Thom Kallor (Starboy/man) - schizophrenia
Rose Wilson (Ravager) - missing an eye *
Charles McNider (Dr Mid-Nite) - blind
cliff steel (robot man) - entire body is destroyed except for his brain, interacts through a robot suit
Todd Rice (Obsidian) - schizophrenia *
Niles Caulder (Chief) - paralyzed, uses a wheelchair
Cassandra Cain (Batgirl) - nonverbal for some time, then is semi verbal *
Freddy Freeman (Captain Marvel Jr) - mobility impaired in non superpowered form
Amon Tomaz (Osiris) - mobility impaired in non superpowered form
Rhosyn Forrest (Thorn) - DID - wiki lists her in the heroes categories, I only saw her in birds of prey where she was treated initially as a villain then as like... not the person they had to stop? more sympathetically at least
Roy Harper (Arsenal/Red Arrow) - briefly lost an arm (universe got reset), recovering addict
Garth (Aqualad/Tempest) - partially color blind
Elizabeth Chapel (Dr Mid-Nite) - blind
Bart Allen (Impulse) - unspecified neurodivergent coding - not including headcanons but this seems intentional on part of the writers and coding can count
question mark on alignment
Mace Gardner (militia) - paralyzed, uses cybernetic bodysuit/parts?
Harley Quinn - unspecified mental illness * a hero in more recent years don’t know how hard DC leads into that or if she’s more anti-hero/morally gray
Villains - this is almost CERTAINLY not going to wind up being a complete list, because so many villains are disabled
slade wilson - (if we’re counting rose’s missing an eye here thing we’re counting his too)
Harvey Dent (two face) - DID
Peyton Riley (ventriloquist) - also DID
Arnold Wesker (ventriloquist) -referred to as schizophrenia sometimes in comics sometimes multipersonality disorder (DID)
Rose Canton (Thorn) - schizophrenia
brain (entire body is destroyed except for his brain, interacts through a moveable robot thingie)
Sean Sonus (Discord) - Deaf
Walter Shreeve (Shriek) - Deaf - Batman Beyond Universe
David (black manta) - was autistic in one continuity
Joker - changes between whether the writers want to portray him as ‘evil cuz crazy’ or just like a 4chan person
komandr (blackfire) - interestingly enough not a human disability (she can’t metabolise solar radiation and fly) but she is still portrayed as disabled and ‘crippled’ according to tamaranean society which makes her bitter and evil
Victor Fries (Mr Freeze) - requires usage of assistive tech (his cryo suit) to live
Barbara Minerva (Cheetah) - uses a cane in her non-cheetah form
characters who were disabled or received a disabling injury at one point but have had most of their definitive appearances as able bodied/NT after being magicured or before being disabled
Dick Grayson (Ric) Dick while Ric experiences blackouts and seizures among other symptoms
Bruce Wayne - Paralyzed in the thoracic region, alternated between using a wheelchair and walking with assistive devices like canes and crutches
Damian Wayne - paralyzed, spine replaced almost immediately afterwards - TBH unsure how much this “counts” as magicuring as the audience is never expected to believe Damian will stay paralyzed
Jason Todd - nonverbal and with some type of cognitive disability due to brain damage after being raised from the dead before being lazarus pitted
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How Many Seats Do Republicans Hold In Congress
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How Many Seats Do Republicans Hold In Congress
Republicans Secure Half Of Total Us Senate Seats
WASHINGTON – U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska won reelection Wednesday, assuring Republicans of at least 50 seats in the 100-member Senate for the next two years, while leaving control of the chamber uncertain until two runoff elections are held in Georgia in early January.
After slow vote-counting in the northwestern-most state of the U.S. after the November 3 election, news media concluded that Sullivan had an insurmountable lead over Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon who ran as an independent candidate with Democratic support. The contest was called with Sullivan, a conservative, ahead by 20 percentage points.
With Republicans assured of at least half the Senate seats, attention now turns to the two January 5 runoff elections in the southern state of Georgia.
Two conservative Republican lawmakers Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler now hold the two seats, but both failed in separate contests last week to win a majority, forcing them into the runoffs.
Perdue faces Democrat Jon Ossoff, an investigative journalist who narrowly lost a 2017 race for a seat in the House of Representatives before trying to oust Perdue from the Senate seat he has held since 2015.
Loeffler, who was appointed to her Senate seat in early 2020, is facing Raphael Warnock, a progressive Democrat who is senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Who Are The Winners And Losers
Maine Democrats had high hopes of unseating Susan Collins, the 67-year-old moderate Republican who had been trailing her Democrat rival in the polls for months.
But Sara Gideon, 48, conceded in a call to Ms Collins on Wednesday afternoon.
So far, Democrats have managed a net gain of one seat in the Senate election.
Democratic former governor John Hickenlooper won a key Colorado seat from the Republican incumbent Cory Gardner.
Mr Hickenlooper, who stood for the Democratic nomination for president, was governor of Colorado for two terms from 2011 until last year. His rival was considered particularly vulnerable because of his allegiance to President Trump.
In Arizona, former astronaut Mark Kelly defeated Republican incumbent and former fighter pilot Martha McSally. Mr Kelly earlier said he was “confident that when the votes are counted, we’re going to be successful in this mission”.
However, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump ally Lindsey Graham have both been re-elected in their seats of Kentucky and South Carolina respectively.
And in Alabama, Republican candidate Tommy Tuberville took a seat from the Democratic incumbent Doug Jones.
Democrats Path To Senate Control Narrows As Republicans Hold Onto Critical Seats
Democrats path to seizing the Senate continued to narrow Wednesday as Republicans held onto a cluster of seats in critical states and the two parties continued to fight to control the upper chamber of Congress in close contests across the country.
Democrats won a crucial seat in Arizonaearly Wednesday, with Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, defeating Senator Martha McSally, after former Gov. John Hickenlooper defeated Senator Cory Gardner Tuesday night in the high-profile fight for Colorados Senate seat. Those victories were essential to Democrats push to take the Senate majority.
In Georgia, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, a Democrat, advanced to a runoff election against Senator Kelly Loeffler, the Republican incumbent. The other race in the state, between Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challenger, and Senator David Perdue, a Republican, was too close to call.
And early returns showed Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, with a lead over his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham, in a seat that strategists in both parties identified as a possible tipping point.
There were still several crucial Senate races that were not yet called that Democrats hope to win, including Maine,and Democrats remained bullish on their chances in Georgia.
The 2018 Congressional Retirement Tracker
Here’s a running list of all the lawmakers calling it quits this year.
If you want to see a political wave forming a year before an election, watch the retirements.
Theyre often a leading indicator for which direction a party is headed, and so far, 2018 is shaping up ominously for Republicans, who will be defending 40 open House seats this fall compared with the Democrats 20. By far the biggest and most consequential retirement announcement came in early April, as Speaker Paul Ryan told his colleagues he would not seek reelection to his House seat.
Far more Republicans are leaving Congress voluntarily than Democrats, putting the partys control of the chamber in jeopardy. Several veteran Republican lawmakers in competitive districts are calling it quits, depriving the GOP of the advantage of incumbency in races that could determine control of the House in 2019.
Mcconnell Not Troubled At All By Trump’s Suggestion Of Supreme Court Challenge
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended Mr. Trump for falsely claiming that he won reelection, although he acknowledged that the presidential race had not yet been decided.
“It’s not unusual for people to claim they have won the election. I can think of that happening on numerous occasions,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky. “But, claiming to win the election is different from finishing the counting.”
“Claiming to win the election is different from finishing the counting,” Mitch McConnell says, adding that Americans “should not be shocked” that Democrats and Republicans are both lawyering up for the close races https://t.co/fxHKy8hSEp
CBS News November 4, 2020
He also said he was “not troubled at all” by the president suggesting that the outcome of the election might be determined by the Supreme Court. The president cannot unilaterally bring a case to the Supreme Court, what it’s unclear what case the Trump campaign would have if it challenged the counting of legally cast absentee ballots.
McConnell, who won his own closely watched reelection race on Tuesday evening, expressed measured confidence about Republicans maintaining their majority in the Senate. He said he believed there is a “chance we will know by the end of the day” if Republicans won races in states like Georgia and North Carolina.
Could Flip Under The Right Conditions: Michigan Iowa Montana Kansas And Georgia Special Election
Michigan: Michigan is one of the most hotly contested states in the presidential race, and the reelection bid of Sen. Gary Peters will get caught up in that. Democrats say the fact that the coronavirus has hit Michigan hard makes it more likely Biden can win this state, which was crucial to Trumps 2016 victory. In the Senate race, Republicans have made a big deal out of John James, an Iraq War veteran and conservative media darling. James has outraised Peters for three straight quarters and is close to having as much money as Peters in the bank. Democrats argue Republicans are too bullish on a candidate who also lost a Senate race against a Democrat in 2018. Polls have shown this race close between the two.
Montana: Can a popular Democratic governor who won in Trump country unseat a sitting Republican senator? Term-limited Gov. Steve Bullock , a former 2020 presidential candidate, is running against Sen. Steve Daines . Bullock is the Democrat with the best shot, given hes won three times statewide, including when Trump swept the state in 2016. And in 2018, Sen. Jon Tester won a tough reelection fight. But can Bullock unseat a sitting Republican senator in a state that some strategists estimate could vote for Trump by as many as 20 points?
Its Not All Bad News For Democrats
While it was unquestionably a good night for Republicans, Democrats still held onto most of the seats they won in 2018 and will continue to be the majority party in the House. Thats in part because they retained most of the suburban districts they picked up in 2018.
Of the 233 seats that Democrats held coming into the election, 186 of them were in districts that were predominantly or partly suburban in nature, according to density categorizations by Bloombergs CityLab. Thus far, Democrats have lost seven of those seats, but they captured one GOP-held suburban seat around Atlanta. And thanks to redistricting, theyve also won two formerly Republican seats around Greensboro and Raleigh in North Carolina, which reflect the partys strength in more populous areas.
Because of their relative success in the suburbs, Democrats kept many seats in places President Trump won in 2016. Coming into the election, Democrats held 30 seats in districts Trump carried in 2016, and they wouldve lost their majority if theyd lost more than half of them . But theyve won 18 of them so far and picked up one from the GOP . In fact, more than half of Republicans gains have come in seats representing places that Trump won by a pretty sizable margin in 2016. Well have to wait a bit before data can tell us how congressional districts voted in 2020, but for now it seems many Republican gains were made by picking off the lowest-hanging fruit.
An Incoming Class Of History
Several of the newly elected state representatives are making history.
The Republican Madison Cawthorn, 25, who beat the Democrat Moe Davis to represent North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, will become the youngest member of Congress in modern history.
The Democrat Cori Bush is set to become the first Black congresswoman from Missouri after winning in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
The Democrats Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres will also be the first openly gay Black men to serve in Congress, after winning in New York’s 17th and 15th districts respectively.
And nine out of the eleven Republicans who have so far unseated incumbent Democrats are women wins that will drastically expand the representation of women and especially of women of color in the House Republican caucus.
Currently, there are just 13 voting female Republican representatives in the House and 11 female Republican incumbents who ran for reelection in 2020.
Collins Says Gideon Called To Concede
Senator Susan Collins of Maine told supporters on Wednesday that her Democratic opponent, Sara Gideon, had called her to concede the race. Without taking Collins’ seat, Democrats have little change of claiming the Senate majority.
“I have news for everyone. I just received a very gracious call from Sara Gideon conceding the race,” Collins told supporters on Wednesday afternoon.
Collins, one of the more moderate members of Senate, was considered particularly vulnerable this year. If she had received under 50% of the vote, the race would have proceeded to a runoff, under Maine’s system of ranked-choice voting.
Gideon significantly outraised Collins, and hit the senator repeatedly for voting to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Republicans Are Well Positioned To Take The House In 2022
Although we dont yet know the winners of some House races, we can already look ahead to the 2022 midterms and see a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House. Midterm elections historically go well for the party thats not in the White House, and the out-of-power party is especially likely to do well in the House, since every seat is up for election .
Since the end of World War II, the presidential party has lost an average of 27 House seats in midterm elections, as the chart below shows. No matter how many seats Democrats end up with after 2020s election at this point, they will probably end up somewhere in the low 220s a loss of that magnitude would easily be enough for Republicans to retake the House.
The recent history of midterms in a Democratic presidents first term seems especially promising for the GOP, too. Following Bill Clintons election in 1992, Democrats lost more than 50 seats in 1994, and after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, Democrats lost more than 60 seats.
If Democrats had added five to 10 seats this year, they could have survived a 20-seat loss in the midterms. Instead, Republicans will probably need to win fewer than 10 seats to gain a slender majority in 2022.
The Number Of People Each House Member Represents Will Change
The number of residents represented by each House member will mostly grow in 2022, though it will decrease per representative in some states.
Since Montana gained a representative, its two House members will now split the state’s population currently represented by Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican. The addition of another House seat means Montana’s House members will represent the least amount of people compared to House members in other states.
Delaware’s sole House district, currently held by Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, will be the largest in terms of population.
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New Yorkers Become First Black And Openly Gay Members Of Congress
Tuesday night will be historic in part because of the diversity of candidates elected to the House. Democrats Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones, both of New York, are the first Black and openly gay members of Congress.
Meanwhile, Republican Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is leading in North Carolina’s 11th district, a safe Republican seat. Cawthorn, 25, won the June primary against a Trump-backed candidate for the seat vacated by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows . He has come under fire for visiting Hitler’s retreat and for his campaign launching a website which included a racist broadside against his Democratic opponent.
Maine Senate Race A Toss
With polls closing at 8 p.m., the hotly contested Maine Senate race remains a toss-up. Senator Susan Collins, running for her fifth term, is considered one of the most moderate Republicans in the Senate, but she is facing considerable skepticism from Democrats and independents who previously supported her. State Speaker of the House Sara Gideon is the Democratic candidate, and has posted record fundraising.
CBS News projects that Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware and Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts have both won reelection. Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma also won reelection.
The Alabama Senate race is leaning toward Republican Tommy Tuberville, who is taking on incumbent Senator Doug Jones, the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate.
The Tennessee Senate race is also leaning Republican. The Mississippi Senate race is likely Republican. The Senate races in New Hampshire, Illinois, and Rhode Island are lean Democratic, and New Jersey is likely Democratic.
Cori Bush Becomes Missouri’s First Black Congresswoman Cbs News Projects
Cori Bush, a progressive Democrat and activist, has become Missouri’s first Black congresswoman, according to CBS News projections. With 88% of votes reported, Bush is leading Republican Anthony Rogers 78.9% to 19% to represent the state’s first congressional district, which includes St. Louis and Ferguson.
Bush, 44, claimed victory on Tuesday, promising to bring change to the district. “As the first Black woman and also the first nurse and single mother to have the honor to represent Missouri in the United States Congress, let me say this: To the Black women, the Black girls, the nurses, the essential workers, the single mothers, this is our moment,” she told supporters in St. Louis.
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Republicans Are Expected To Gain Seats In Redrawn 2022 Congressional Maps But Democrats Could Be Worse Off
U.S. Census data released Monday will shift political power in Congress, reapportioning two House seats to Texas and one each to Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, Colorado, and Montana and stripping a seat from California , New York , Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and West Virginia. Florida, Texas, and Arizona each controlled entirely by Republicans had been expecting to pick up an additional seat.
“On balance, I think this reapportionment offers a small boost for Republicans, but the bigger boost is likely to come from how Republicans draw these seats in Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia,” the Cook Political Report‘s Dave Wasserman tells Axios. “Reapportionment itself means little compared to the redistricting fights to come.” It won’t exactly be a level playing field.
“Republicans control the redistricting process in far more states than do Democrats, because of GOP dominance in down-ballot elections,”The New York Times reports. “Democrats, meanwhile, have shifted redistricting decisions in states where they have controlled the government such as California, Colorado, and Virginia to independent commissions intended to create fair maps.”
House seats broken down by final redistricting authority :
– Republican: 187
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What Is The New Balance Of Power In The House
House Democrats held onto their majority but lost seats to Republican challengers.
More than a dozen incumbent Democrats lost re-election bids, despite earlier projections they could gain up to 15 seats.
Democrats took the chamber after they netted 41 seats in the 2018 midterm elections, their largest single-year pickup since the post-Watergate midterms of 1974. But some of those new Democrats were among the partys losers in 2020.
Just How Bad Was The 2018 Election For House Republicans
On Thursday, Democrat Jared Golden beat Maine Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin, marking the 33rd seat pickup for Democrats in the 2018 election.
There are seven races in the House left uncalled all are Republican-held seats; Democrats lead in five of the seven. If they win all the races where their candidates are winning at the moment, Democrats will net 38 seats. If they lose them all which is very unlikely they will hold at a 33-seat gain.
In an interview Wednesday with the conservative Daily Caller website, President Donald Trump insisted that by his aggressive last-minute campaigning across the country he had saved House Republicans from seat losses that could have numbered into the 70s. I think I did very well, he concluded.
So did he? As compared to history?
Not really, is the answer.
Theres no question that Trump did not suffer the massive seat loss that his immediate predecessor Barack Obama did in his first midterm election in 2010. In that election, Republicans netted an astounding 63-seat gain, the largest since Democrats lost 72 House seats in the 1938 midterms.
But more broadly, the 33 seat loss by Republicans in 2018 places this election firmly in the upper echelon of House-seat losses by a presidents party in modern midterms.
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I Do Not Buy That A Social Media Ban Hurts Trumps 2024 Aspirations: Nate Silver
sarah: Yeah, Democrats might not have their worst Senate map in 2022, but it will by no means be easy, and how they fare will have a lot to do with the national environment. And as we touched on earlier, Bidens overall approval rating will also make a big difference in Democrats midterm chances.
nrakich: Yeah, if the national environment is even a bit Republican-leaning, that could be enough to allow solid Republican recruits to flip even Nevada and New Hampshire. And then it wouldnt even matter if Democrats win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
One thing is for sure, though whichever party wins the Senate will have only a narrow majority, so I think were stuck in this era of moderates like Sens. Joe Manchin and Lisa Murkowski controlling every bills fate for at least a while longer.
sarah: Lets talk about big picture strategy, then, and where that leaves us moving forward. Its still early and far too easy to prescribe election narratives that arent grounded in anything, but one gambit the Republican Party seems to be making at this point is that attacking the Democratic Party for being too progressive or woke will help them win.
What do we make of that playbook headed into 2022? Likewise, as the party in charge, what are Democrats planning for?
With that being said, the GOPs strategies could still gin up turnout among its base, in particular, but its hard to separate that from general dissatisfaction with Biden.
Th Congress 2007 And 2008
The 110th Congress is noteworthy because its members were elected by voters frustrated by the protracted war in Iraq and the continued loss of American soldiers. Democrats were swept into power in Congress, leaving Republican President George W. Bush and his party with diminished authority.
University of California political scientist G. William Domhoff wrote:
“The unexpected Democratic victory hobbled the right wing of the power elite and returned moderate conservatives to the central position they had held on policy issues for decades until the Republicans took control of the White House in 2000 and then both houses of Congress in 2002.”
Said Bush after the results became clear in 2006:
“I’m obviously disappointed with the outcome of the election, and as the head of the Republican Party, I share a large part of the responsibility. I told my party’s leaders that it is now our duty to put the elections behind us and work together with the Democrats and independents on the great issues facing this country.”
White House: Republican
House: Democrats held 233 seats, Republicans held 202 seats
Senate: Democrats held 49 seats, Republicans held 49 seats; there was one independent and one independent Democrat
*Notes: U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut was reelected in 2006 as an independent candidate and became an Independent Democrat. U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont was elected in 2006 as an independent.
About The House Of Representatives
The United States is also divided into 435 congressional districts with a population of about 750,000 each. Each district elects a representative to the House of Representatives for a two-year term.
As in the Senate, the day-to-day activities of the House are controlled by the majority party. Here is a count of representatives by party:
How Are The Results Reported
The election results on this page are reported by the Associated Press . AP call the winner in a state when they determine that the trailing candidate has no path to victory. This can happen before 100% of votes in a state have been counted.
Estimates for the total vote in each state are also provided by AP. The numbers update throughout election night, as more data on voter turnout becomes available.
Th Congress 2015 And 2016
The 114th Congress was notable because Republicans won their largest majorities in the House and Senate in decades after voters used the midterm election in 2014 to express dissatisfaction with a Democratic president, Barack Obama. Democrats lost control of the Senate in the 2014 elections.
Said Obama after the results became clear:
“Obviously, Republicans had a good night. And they deserve credit for running good campaigns. Beyond that, I’ll leave it to all of you and the professional pundits to pick through yesterday’s results.”
White House: Democrat
House: Republicans held 246 seats, Democrats held 187 seats; there were two vacancies.
Senate: Republicans held 54 seats, Democrats held 44 seats; there were two independents, both of whom caucused with the Democrats.
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Republicans Secure Half Of Total Us Senate Seats
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska won reelection Wednesday, assuring Republicans of at least 50 seats in the 100-member Senate for the next two years, while leaving control of the chamber uncertain until two runoff elections are held in Georgia in early January.
After slow vote-counting in the northwestern-most state of the U.S. after the November 3 election, news media concluded that Sullivan had an insurmountable lead over Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon who ran as an independent candidate with Democratic support. The contest was called with Sullivan, a conservative, ahead by 20 percentage points.
With Republicans assured of at least half the Senate seats, attention now turns to the two January 5 runoff elections in the southern state of Georgia.
Two conservative Republican lawmakers Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler now hold the two seats, but both failed in separate contests last week to win a majority, forcing them into the runoffs.
Perdue faces Democrat Jon Ossoff, an investigative journalist who narrowly lost a 2017 race for a seat in the House of Representatives before trying to oust Perdue from the Senate seat he has held since 2015.
Loeffler, who was appointed to her Senate seat in early 2020, is facing Raphael Warnock, a progressive Democrat who is senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Who Are The Winners And Losers
Maine Democrats had high hopes of unseating Susan Collins, the 67-year-old moderate Republican who had been trailing her Democrat rival in the polls for months.
But Sara Gideon, 48, conceded in a call to Ms Collins on Wednesday afternoon.
So far, Democrats have managed a net gain of one seat in the Senate election.
Democratic former governor John Hickenlooper won a key Colorado seat from the Republican incumbent Cory Gardner.
Mr Hickenlooper, who stood for the Democratic nomination for president, was governor of Colorado for two terms from 2011 until last year. His rival was considered particularly vulnerable because of his allegiance to President Trump.
In Arizona, former astronaut Mark Kelly defeated Republican incumbent and former fighter pilot Martha McSally. Mr Kelly earlier said he was “confident that when the votes are counted, we’re going to be successful in this mission”.
However, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump ally Lindsey Graham have both been re-elected in their seats of Kentucky and South Carolina respectively.
And in Alabama, Republican candidate Tommy Tuberville took a seat from the Democratic incumbent Doug Jones.
Democrats Path To Senate Control Narrows As Republicans Hold Onto Critical Seats
Democrats path to seizing the Senate continued to narrow Wednesday as Republicans held onto a cluster of seats in critical states and the two parties continued to fight to control the upper chamber of Congress in close contests across the country.
Democrats won a crucial seat in Arizonaearly Wednesday, with Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, defeating Senator Martha McSally, after former Gov. John Hickenlooper defeated Senator Cory Gardner Tuesday night in the high-profile fight for Colorados Senate seat. Those victories were essential to Democrats push to take the Senate majority.
In Georgia, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, a Democrat, advanced to a runoff election against Senator Kelly Loeffler, the Republican incumbent. The other race in the state, between Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challenger, and Senator David Perdue, a Republican, was too close to call.
And early returns showed Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, with a lead over his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham, in a seat that strategists in both parties identified as a possible tipping point.
There were still several crucial Senate races that were not yet called that Democrats hope to win, including Maine,and Democrats remained bullish on their chances in Georgia.
The 2018 Congressional Retirement Tracker
Here’s a running list of all the lawmakers calling it quits this year.
If you want to see a political wave forming a year before an election, watch the retirements.
Theyre often a leading indicator for which direction a party is headed, and so far, 2018 is shaping up ominously for Republicans, who will be defending 40 open House seats this fall compared with the Democrats 20. By far the biggest and most consequential retirement announcement came in early April, as Speaker Paul Ryan told his colleagues he would not seek reelection to his House seat.
Far more Republicans are leaving Congress voluntarily than Democrats, putting the partys control of the chamber in jeopardy. Several veteran Republican lawmakers in competitive districts are calling it quits, depriving the GOP of the advantage of incumbency in races that could determine control of the House in 2019.
Mcconnell Not Troubled At All By Trump’s Suggestion Of Supreme Court Challenge
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended Mr. Trump for falsely claiming that he won reelection, although he acknowledged that the presidential race had not yet been decided.
“It’s not unusual for people to claim they have won the election. I can think of that happening on numerous occasions,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky. “But, claiming to win the election is different from finishing the counting.”
“Claiming to win the election is different from finishing the counting,” Mitch McConnell says, adding that Americans “should not be shocked” that Democrats and Republicans are both lawyering up for the close races https://t.co/fxHKy8hSEp
CBS News November 4, 2020
He also said he was “not troubled at all” by the president suggesting that the outcome of the election might be determined by the Supreme Court. The president cannot unilaterally bring a case to the Supreme Court, what it’s unclear what case the Trump campaign would have if it challenged the counting of legally cast absentee ballots.
McConnell, who won his own closely watched reelection race on Tuesday evening, expressed measured confidence about Republicans maintaining their majority in the Senate. He said he believed there is a “chance we will know by the end of the day” if Republicans won races in states like Georgia and North Carolina.
Could Flip Under The Right Conditions: Michigan Iowa Montana Kansas And Georgia Special Election
Michigan: Michigan is one of the most hotly contested states in the presidential race, and the reelection bid of Sen. Gary Peters will get caught up in that. Democrats say the fact that the coronavirus has hit Michigan hard makes it more likely Biden can win this state, which was crucial to Trumps 2016 victory. In the Senate race, Republicans have made a big deal out of John James, an Iraq War veteran and conservative media darling. James has outraised Peters for three straight quarters and is close to having as much money as Peters in the bank. Democrats argue Republicans are too bullish on a candidate who also lost a Senate race against a Democrat in 2018. Polls have shown this race close between the two.
Montana: Can a popular Democratic governor who won in Trump country unseat a sitting Republican senator? Term-limited Gov. Steve Bullock , a former 2020 presidential candidate, is running against Sen. Steve Daines . Bullock is the Democrat with the best shot, given hes won three times statewide, including when Trump swept the state in 2016. And in 2018, Sen. Jon Tester won a tough reelection fight. But can Bullock unseat a sitting Republican senator in a state that some strategists estimate could vote for Trump by as many as 20 points?
Its Not All Bad News For Democrats
While it was unquestionably a good night for Republicans, Democrats still held onto most of the seats they won in 2018 and will continue to be the majority party in the House. Thats in part because they retained most of the suburban districts they picked up in 2018.
Of the 233 seats that Democrats held coming into the election, 186 of them were in districts that were predominantly or partly suburban in nature, according to density categorizations by Bloombergs CityLab. Thus far, Democrats have lost seven of those seats, but they captured one GOP-held suburban seat around Atlanta. And thanks to redistricting, theyve also won two formerly Republican seats around Greensboro and Raleigh in North Carolina, which reflect the partys strength in more populous areas.
Because of their relative success in the suburbs, Democrats kept many seats in places President Trump won in 2016. Coming into the election, Democrats held 30 seats in districts Trump carried in 2016, and they wouldve lost their majority if theyd lost more than half of them . But theyve won 18 of them so far and picked up one from the GOP . In fact, more than half of Republicans gains have come in seats representing places that Trump won by a pretty sizable margin in 2016. Well have to wait a bit before data can tell us how congressional districts voted in 2020, but for now it seems many Republican gains were made by picking off the lowest-hanging fruit.
An Incoming Class Of History
Several of the newly elected state representatives are making history.
The Republican Madison Cawthorn, 25, who beat the Democrat Moe Davis to represent North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, will become the youngest member of Congress in modern history.
The Democrat Cori Bush is set to become the first Black congresswoman from Missouri after winning in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
The Democrats Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres will also be the first openly gay Black men to serve in Congress, after winning in New York’s 17th and 15th districts respectively.
And nine out of the eleven Republicans who have so far unseated incumbent Democrats are women wins that will drastically expand the representation of women and especially of women of color in the House Republican caucus.
Currently, there are just 13 voting female Republican representatives in the House and 11 female Republican incumbents who ran for reelection in 2020.
Collins Says Gideon Called To Concede
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Senator Susan Collins of Maine told supporters on Wednesday that her Democratic opponent, Sara Gideon, had called her to concede the race. Without taking Collins’ seat, Democrats have little change of claiming the Senate majority.
“I have news for everyone. I just received a very gracious call from Sara Gideon conceding the race,” Collins told supporters on Wednesday afternoon.
Collins, one of the more moderate members of Senate, was considered particularly vulnerable this year. If she had received under 50% of the vote, the race would have proceeded to a runoff, under Maine’s system of ranked-choice voting.
Gideon significantly outraised Collins, and hit the senator repeatedly for voting to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Republicans Are Well Positioned To Take The House In 2022
Although we dont yet know the winners of some House races, we can already look ahead to the 2022 midterms and see a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House. Midterm elections historically go well for the party thats not in the White House, and the out-of-power party is especially likely to do well in the House, since every seat is up for election .
Since the end of World War II, the presidential party has lost an average of 27 House seats in midterm elections, as the chart below shows. No matter how many seats Democrats end up with after 2020s election at this point, they will probably end up somewhere in the low 220s a loss of that magnitude would easily be enough for Republicans to retake the House.
The recent history of midterms in a Democratic presidents first term seems especially promising for the GOP, too. Following Bill Clintons election in 1992, Democrats lost more than 50 seats in 1994, and after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, Democrats lost more than 60 seats.
If Democrats had added five to 10 seats this year, they could have survived a 20-seat loss in the midterms. Instead, Republicans will probably need to win fewer than 10 seats to gain a slender majority in 2022.
The Number Of People Each House Member Represents Will Change
The number of residents represented by each House member will mostly grow in 2022, though it will decrease per representative in some states.
Since Montana gained a representative, its two House members will now split the state’s population currently represented by Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican. The addition of another House seat means Montana’s House members will represent the least amount of people compared to House members in other states.
Delaware’s sole House district, currently held by Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, will be the largest in terms of population.
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New Yorkers Become First Black And Openly Gay Members Of Congress
Tuesday night will be historic in part because of the diversity of candidates elected to the House. Democrats Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones, both of New York, are the first Black and openly gay members of Congress.
Meanwhile, Republican Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is leading in North Carolina’s 11th district, a safe Republican seat. Cawthorn, 25, won the June primary against a Trump-backed candidate for the seat vacated by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows . He has come under fire for visiting Hitler’s retreat and for his campaign launching a website which included a racist broadside against his Democratic opponent.
Maine Senate Race A Toss
With polls closing at 8 p.m., the hotly contested Maine Senate race remains a toss-up. Senator Susan Collins, running for her fifth term, is considered one of the most moderate Republicans in the Senate, but she is facing considerable skepticism from Democrats and independents who previously supported her. State Speaker of the House Sara Gideon is the Democratic candidate, and has posted record fundraising.
CBS News projects that Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware and Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts have both won reelection. Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma also won reelection.
The Alabama Senate race is leaning toward Republican Tommy Tuberville, who is taking on incumbent Senator Doug Jones, the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate.
The Tennessee Senate race is also leaning Republican. The Mississippi Senate race is likely Republican. The Senate races in New Hampshire, Illinois, and Rhode Island are lean Democratic, and New Jersey is likely Democratic.
Cori Bush Becomes Missouri’s First Black Congresswoman Cbs News Projects
Cori Bush, a progressive Democrat and activist, has become Missouri’s first Black congresswoman, according to CBS News projections. With 88% of votes reported, Bush is leading Republican Anthony Rogers 78.9% to 19% to represent the state’s first congressional district, which includes St. Louis and Ferguson.
Bush, 44, claimed victory on Tuesday, promising to bring change to the district. “As the first Black woman and also the first nurse and single mother to have the honor to represent Missouri in the United States Congress, let me say this: To the Black women, the Black girls, the nurses, the essential workers, the single mothers, this is our moment,” she told supporters in St. Louis.
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Republicans Are Expected To Gain Seats In Redrawn 2022 Congressional Maps But Democrats Could Be Worse Off
U.S. Census data released Monday will shift political power in Congress, reapportioning two House seats to Texas and one each to Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, Colorado, and Montana and stripping a seat from California , New York , Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and West Virginia. Florida, Texas, and Arizona each controlled entirely by Republicans had been expecting to pick up an additional seat.
“On balance, I think this reapportionment offers a small boost for Republicans, but the bigger boost is likely to come from how Republicans draw these seats in Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia,” the Cook Political Report‘s Dave Wasserman tells Axios. “Reapportionment itself means little compared to the redistricting fights to come.” It won’t exactly be a level playing field.
“Republicans control the redistricting process in far more states than do Democrats, because of GOP dominance in down-ballot elections,”The New York Times reports. “Democrats, meanwhile, have shifted redistricting decisions in states where they have controlled the government such as California, Colorado, and Virginia to independent commissions intended to create fair maps.”
House seats broken down by final redistricting authority :
– Republican: 187
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What Is The New Balance Of Power In The House
House Democrats held onto their majority but lost seats to Republican challengers.
More than a dozen incumbent Democrats lost re-election bids, despite earlier projections they could gain up to 15 seats.
Democrats took the chamber after they netted 41 seats in the 2018 midterm elections, their largest single-year pickup since the post-Watergate midterms of 1974. But some of those new Democrats were among the partys losers in 2020.
Just How Bad Was The 2018 Election For House Republicans
On Thursday, Democrat Jared Golden beat Maine Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin, marking the 33rd seat pickup for Democrats in the 2018 election.
There are seven races in the House left uncalled all are Republican-held seats; Democrats lead in five of the seven. If they win all the races where their candidates are winning at the moment, Democrats will net 38 seats. If they lose them all which is very unlikely they will hold at a 33-seat gain.
In an interview Wednesday with the conservative Daily Caller website, President Donald Trump insisted that by his aggressive last-minute campaigning across the country he had saved House Republicans from seat losses that could have numbered into the 70s. I think I did very well, he concluded.
So did he? As compared to history?
Not really, is the answer.
Theres no question that Trump did not suffer the massive seat loss that his immediate predecessor Barack Obama did in his first midterm election in 2010. In that election, Republicans netted an astounding 63-seat gain, the largest since Democrats lost 72 House seats in the 1938 midterms.
But more broadly, the 33 seat loss by Republicans in 2018 places this election firmly in the upper echelon of House-seat losses by a presidents party in modern midterms.
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I Do Not Buy That A Social Media Ban Hurts Trumps 2024 Aspirations: Nate Silver
sarah: Yeah, Democrats might not have their worst Senate map in 2022, but it will by no means be easy, and how they fare will have a lot to do with the national environment. And as we touched on earlier, Bidens overall approval rating will also make a big difference in Democrats midterm chances.
nrakich: Yeah, if the national environment is even a bit Republican-leaning, that could be enough to allow solid Republican recruits to flip even Nevada and New Hampshire. And then it wouldnt even matter if Democrats win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
One thing is for sure, though whichever party wins the Senate will have only a narrow majority, so I think were stuck in this era of moderates like Sens. Joe Manchin and Lisa Murkowski controlling every bills fate for at least a while longer.
sarah: Lets talk about big picture strategy, then, and where that leaves us moving forward. Its still early and far too easy to prescribe election narratives that arent grounded in anything, but one gambit the Republican Party seems to be making at this point is that attacking the Democratic Party for being too progressive or woke will help them win.
What do we make of that playbook headed into 2022? Likewise, as the party in charge, what are Democrats planning for?
With that being said, the GOPs strategies could still gin up turnout among its base, in particular, but its hard to separate that from general dissatisfaction with Biden.
Th Congress 2007 And 2008
The 110th Congress is noteworthy because its members were elected by voters frustrated by the protracted war in Iraq and the continued loss of American soldiers. Democrats were swept into power in Congress, leaving Republican President George W. Bush and his party with diminished authority.
University of California political scientist G. William Domhoff wrote:
“The unexpected Democratic victory hobbled the right wing of the power elite and returned moderate conservatives to the central position they had held on policy issues for decades until the Republicans took control of the White House in 2000 and then both houses of Congress in 2002.”
Said Bush after the results became clear in 2006:
“I’m obviously disappointed with the outcome of the election, and as the head of the Republican Party, I share a large part of the responsibility. I told my party’s leaders that it is now our duty to put the elections behind us and work together with the Democrats and independents on the great issues facing this country.”
White House: Republican
House: Democrats held 233 seats, Republicans held 202 seats
Senate: Democrats held 49 seats, Republicans held 49 seats; there was one independent and one independent Democrat
*Notes: U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut was reelected in 2006 as an independent candidate and became an Independent Democrat. U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont was elected in 2006 as an independent.
About The House Of Representatives
The United States is also divided into 435 congressional districts with a population of about 750,000 each. Each district elects a representative to the House of Representatives for a two-year term.
As in the Senate, the day-to-day activities of the House are controlled by the majority party. Here is a count of representatives by party:
How Are The Results Reported
The election results on this page are reported by the Associated Press . AP call the winner in a state when they determine that the trailing candidate has no path to victory. This can happen before 100% of votes in a state have been counted.
Estimates for the total vote in each state are also provided by AP. The numbers update throughout election night, as more data on voter turnout becomes available.
Th Congress 2015 And 2016
The 114th Congress was notable because Republicans won their largest majorities in the House and Senate in decades after voters used the midterm election in 2014 to express dissatisfaction with a Democratic president, Barack Obama. Democrats lost control of the Senate in the 2014 elections.
Said Obama after the results became clear:
“Obviously, Republicans had a good night. And they deserve credit for running good campaigns. Beyond that, I’ll leave it to all of you and the professional pundits to pick through yesterday’s results.”
White House: Democrat
House: Republicans held 246 seats, Democrats held 187 seats; there were two vacancies.
Senate: Republicans held 54 seats, Democrats held 44 seats; there were two independents, both of whom caucused with the Democrats.
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Opposition to Obamacare Becomes Political Liability for GOP Incumbents
In the 2014 elections, Republicans rode a wave of anti-Affordable Care Act sentiment to pick up nine Senate seats, the largest gain for either party since 1980. Newly elected Republicans such as Cory Gardner in Colorado and Steve Daines in Montana had hammered their Democratic opponents over the health care law during the campaign and promised to repeal it.
Six years later, those senators are up for reelection. Not only is the law still around, but it’s gaining in popularity. What was once a winning strategy has become a political liability.
Public sentiment about the ACA, also known as Obamacare, has shifted considerably during the Trump administration after Republicans tried but failed to repeal it. Now, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis, which has led to the loss of jobs and health insurance for millions of people, health care again looks poised to be a key issue for voters this election.
With competitive races in Colorado, Montana, Arizona, North Carolina and Iowa pitting Republican incumbents who voted to repeal the ACA against Democratic challengers promising to protect it, attitudes surrounding the health law could help determine control of the Senate. Republicans hold a slim three-vote majority in the Senate but are defending 23 seats in the Nov. 3 election. Only one Democratic Senate seat — in Alabama, where incumbent Doug Jones is up against former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville — is considered in play for Republicans.
“The fall election will significantly revolve around people’s belief about what [candidates] will do for their health coverage,” said Dr. Daniel Derksen, a professor of public health at the University of Arizona.
The Affordable Care Act has been a wedge issue since it was signed into law in 2010. Because it then took four years to enact, its opponents talked for years about how bad the not-yet-created marketplace for insurance would be, said Joe Hanel, spokesperson for the Colorado Health Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on health policy analysis. And they continued to attack the law as it took full effect in 2014.
Gardner, for example, ran numerous campaign ads that year criticizing the ACA and, in particular, President Barack Obama’s assertion that “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.”
But now, Hanel said, the ACA’s policies have become much more popular in Colorado as the costs of health exchange plans have dropped. Thus, political messaging has changed, too.
“This time it’s the opposite,” Hanel said. “The people bringing up the Affordable Care Act are the Democrats.”
Despite Gardner’s multiple votes to repeal the ACA, he has largely avoided talking about the measure during the 2020 campaign. He even removed his pro-repeal position from his campaign website.
Democratic attack ads in July blasted Gardner for repeatedly dodging questions in an interview with Colorado Public Radio about his stance on a lawsuit challenging the ACA.
His opponent, Democrat John Hickenlooper, fully embraced the law when he was Colorado governor, using the measure to expand Medicaid eligibility to more low-income people and to create a state health insurance exchange. Now, he’s campaigning on that record, with promises to expand health care access even further.
Polling Data
Polling conducted by KFF for the past 10 years shows a shift in public opinion has occurred nationwide. (KHN is an editorially independent program of KFF, the Kaiser Family Foundation.)
“Since Trump won the election in 2016, we now have consistently found that a larger share of the public holds favorable views” of the health law, said Ashley Kirzinger, associate director of public opinion and survey research for the foundation. “This really solidified in 2017 after the failed repeal in the Senate.”
The foundation’s polling found that, in July 2014, 55% of voters opposed the law, while 36% favored it. By July 2020, that had flipped, with 51% favoring the law and 38% opposing it. A shift was seen across all political groups, though 74% of Republicans still viewed it unfavorably in the latest poll.
Public support for individual provisions of the ACA — such as protections for people with preexisting conditions or allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26 — have proved even more popular than the law as a whole. And the provision that consistently polled unfavorably — the mandate that those without insurance must pay a fine — was eliminated in 2017.
“We’re 10 years along and the sky hasn’t caved in,” said Sabrina Corlette, a health policy professor at Georgetown University.
Political Messaging
Following the passage of the ACA, Democrats didn’t reference the law in their campaigns, said Erika Franklin Fowler, a government professor at Wesleyan University and the director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising.
“They ran on any other issue they could find,” Fowler said.
Republicans, she said, kept promising to “repeal and replace” but weren’t able to do so.
Then, in the 2018 election, Democrats seized on the shift in public opinion, touting the effects of the law and criticizing Republicans for their attempts to overturn it.
“In the decade I have been tracking political advertising, there wasn’t a single-issue topic that was as prominent as health care was in 2018,” she said.
As the global health crisis rages, health care concerns again dominate political ads in the 2020 races, Fowler said, although most ads haven’t explicitly focused on the ACA. Many highlight Republicans’ support for the lawsuit challenging preexisting condition protections or specific provisions of the ACA that their votes would have overturned. Republicans say they, too, will protect people with preexisting conditions but otherwise have largely avoided talking about the ACA.
“Cory Gardner has been running a lot on his environmental bills and conservation funding,” Fowler said. “It’s not difficult to figure out why he’s doing that. It’s easier for him to tout that in a state like Colorado than it is to talk about health care.”
Similar dynamics are playing out in other key Senate races. In Arizona, Republican Sen. Martha McSally was one of the more vocal advocates of repealing the ACA while she served in the House of Representatives. She publicly acknowledged those votes may have hurt her 2018 Senate bid.
“I did vote to repeal and replace Obamacare,” McSally said on conservative pundit Sean Hannity’s radio show during the 2018 campaign. “I’m getting my ass kicked for it right now.”
She indeed lost but was appointed to fill the seat of Sen. Jon Kyl after he resigned at the end of 2018. Now McSally is in a tight race with Democratic challenger Mark Kelly, an astronaut and the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords.
“Kelly doesn’t have a track record of voting one way or another, but certainly in his campaign this is one of his top speaking points: what he would do to expand coverage and reassure people that coverage won’t be taken away,” said Derksen, the University of Arizona professor.
The ACA has proved a stumbling block for Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Joni Ernst of Iowa. In Maine, GOP Sen. Susan Collins cast a key vote that prevented the repeal of the law but cast other votes that weakened it. She now also appears vulnerable — but more for her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and for not doing more to oppose President Donald Trump.
In Montana, Daines, who voted to repeal the ACA, is trying to hold on to his seat against Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock, who used the law to expand the state’s Medicaid enrollment in 2015. At its peak, nearly 1 in 10 Montanans were covered through the expansion.
As more Montanans now face the high cost of paying for health care on their own amid pandemic-related job losses, Montana State University political science professor David Parker said he expects Democrats to talk about Daines’ votes to repeal cost-saving provisions of the ACA.
“People are losing jobs, and their jobs bring health care with them,” Parker said. “I don’t think it’s a good space for Daines to be right now.”
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Opposition to Obamacare Becomes Political Liability for GOP Incumbents
In the 2014 elections, Republicans rode a wave of anti-Affordable Care Act sentiment to pick up nine Senate seats, the largest gain for either party since 1980. Newly elected Republicans such as Cory Gardner in Colorado and Steve Daines in Montana had hammered their Democratic opponents over the health care law during the campaign and promised to repeal it.
Six years later, those senators are up for reelection. Not only is the law still around, but it’s gaining in popularity. What was once a winning strategy has become a political liability.
Public sentiment about the ACA, also known as Obamacare, has shifted considerably during the Trump administration after Republicans tried but failed to repeal it. Now, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis, which has led to the loss of jobs and health insurance for millions of people, health care again looks poised to be a key issue for voters this election.
With competitive races in Colorado, Montana, Arizona, North Carolina and Iowa pitting Republican incumbents who voted to repeal the ACA against Democratic challengers promising to protect it, attitudes surrounding the health law could help determine control of the Senate. Republicans hold a slim three-vote majority in the Senate but are defending 23 seats in the Nov. 3 election. Only one Democratic Senate seat — in Alabama, where incumbent Doug Jones is up against former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville — is considered in play for Republicans.
“The fall election will significantly revolve around people’s belief about what [candidates] will do for their health coverage,” said Dr. Daniel Derksen, a professor of public health at the University of Arizona.
The Affordable Care Act has been a wedge issue since it was signed into law in 2010. Because it then took four years to enact, its opponents talked for years about how bad the not-yet-created marketplace for insurance would be, said Joe Hanel, spokesperson for the Colorado Health Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on health policy analysis. And they continued to attack the law as it took full effect in 2014.
Gardner, for example, ran numerous campaign ads that year criticizing the ACA and, in particular, President Barack Obama’s assertion that “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.”
But now, Hanel said, the ACA’s policies have become much more popular in Colorado as the costs of health exchange plans have dropped. Thus, political messaging has changed, too.
“This time it’s the opposite,” Hanel said. “The people bringing up the Affordable Care Act are the Democrats.”
Despite Gardner’s multiple votes to repeal the ACA, he has largely avoided talking about the measure during the 2020 campaign. He even removed his pro-repeal position from his campaign website.
Democratic attack ads in July blasted Gardner for repeatedly dodging questions in an interview with Colorado Public Radio about his stance on a lawsuit challenging the ACA.
His opponent, Democrat John Hickenlooper, fully embraced the law when he was Colorado governor, using the measure to expand Medicaid eligibility to more low-income people and to create a state health insurance exchange. Now, he’s campaigning on that record, with promises to expand health care access even further.
Polling Data
Polling conducted by KFF for the past 10 years shows a shift in public opinion has occurred nationwide. (KHN is an editorially independent program of KFF, the Kaiser Family Foundation.)
“Since Trump won the election in 2016, we now have consistently found that a larger share of the public holds favorable views” of the health law, said Ashley Kirzinger, associate director of public opinion and survey research for the foundation. “This really solidified in 2017 after the failed repeal in the Senate.”
The foundation’s polling found that, in July 2014, 55% of voters opposed the law, while 36% favored it. By July 2020, that had flipped, with 51% favoring the law and 38% opposing it. A shift was seen across all political groups, though 74% of Republicans still viewed it unfavorably in the latest poll.
Public support for individual provisions of the ACA — such as protections for people with preexisting conditions or allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26 — have proved even more popular than the law as a whole. And the provision that consistently polled unfavorably — the mandate that those without insurance must pay a fine — was eliminated in 2017.
“We’re 10 years along and the sky hasn’t caved in,” said Sabrina Corlette, a health policy professor at Georgetown University.
Political Messaging
Following the passage of the ACA, Democrats didn’t reference the law in their campaigns, said Erika Franklin Fowler, a government professor at Wesleyan University and the director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising.
“They ran on any other issue they could find,” Fowler said.
Republicans, she said, kept promising to “repeal and replace” but weren’t able to do so.
Then, in the 2018 election, Democrats seized on the shift in public opinion, touting the effects of the law and criticizing Republicans for their attempts to overturn it.
“In the decade I have been tracking political advertising, there wasn’t a single-issue topic that was as prominent as health care was in 2018,” she said.
As the global health crisis rages, health care concerns again dominate political ads in the 2020 races, Fowler said, although most ads haven’t explicitly focused on the ACA. Many highlight Republicans’ support for the lawsuit challenging preexisting condition protections or specific provisions of the ACA that their votes would have overturned. Republicans say they, too, will protect people with preexisting conditions but otherwise have largely avoided talking about the ACA.
“Cory Gardner has been running a lot on his environmental bills and conservation funding,” Fowler said. “It’s not difficult to figure out why he’s doing that. It’s easier for him to tout that in a state like Colorado than it is to talk about health care.”
Similar dynamics are playing out in other key Senate races. In Arizona, Republican Sen. Martha McSally was one of the more vocal advocates of repealing the ACA while she served in the House of Representatives. She publicly acknowledged those votes may have hurt her 2018 Senate bid.
“I did vote to repeal and replace Obamacare,” McSally said on conservative pundit Sean Hannity’s radio show during the 2018 campaign. “I’m getting my ass kicked for it right now.”
She indeed lost but was appointed to fill the seat of Sen. Jon Kyl after he resigned at the end of 2018. Now McSally is in a tight race with Democratic challenger Mark Kelly, an astronaut and the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords.
“Kelly doesn’t have a track record of voting one way or another, but certainly in his campaign this is one of his top speaking points: what he would do to expand coverage and reassure people that coverage won’t be taken away,” said Derksen, the University of Arizona professor.
The ACA has proved a stumbling block for Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Joni Ernst of Iowa. In Maine, GOP Sen. Susan Collins cast a key vote that prevented the repeal of the law but cast other votes that weakened it. She now also appears vulnerable — but more for her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and for not doing more to oppose President Donald Trump.
In Montana, Daines, who voted to repeal the ACA, is trying to hold on to his seat against Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock, who used the law to expand the state’s Medicaid enrollment in 2015. At its peak, nearly 1 in 10 Montanans were covered through the expansion.
As more Montanans now face the high cost of paying for health care on their own amid pandemic-related job losses, Montana State University political science professor David Parker said he expects Democrats to talk about Daines’ votes to repeal cost-saving provisions of the ACA.
“People are losing jobs, and their jobs bring health care with them,” Parker said. “I don’t think it’s a good space for Daines to be right now.”
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Another Republican defection would doom Senate healthcare bill
President Donald Trump turned up the heat on Friday on fellow Republicans in the US Senate to pass a bill dismantling the Obamacare law, but with their retooled healthcare plan drawing fire within the party even one more defection would doom it.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has planned for a vote next week on revised legislation, unveiled on Thursday, and he has his work cut out for him in the coming days to get the 50 "yes" votes needed for passage. Republicans control the Senate by a 52-48 margin and cannot afford to lose more than two from within their ranks because of united Democratic opposition, but two Republican senators already have declared opposition.
"After all of these years of suffering thru Obamacare, Republican Senators must come through as they have promised," Trump, who made gutting Obamacare one of his central campaign promises last year, wrote on Twitter from Paris, where he attended Bastille Day celebrations.
The top US doctors' group, the American Medical Association, on Friday called the new bill inadequate and said more bipartisan collaboration is needed in the months ahead to improve the delivery and financing of healthcare. Hospital and medical advocacy groups also have criticised the bill.
"The revised bill does not address the key concerns of physicians and patients regarding proposed Medicaid cuts and inadequate subsidies that will result in millions of Americans losing health insurance coverage," AMA president Dr David Barbe said, referring to the government insurance program for the poor and disabled.
A major test for McConnell's legislation expected early next week is an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which last month forecast that the prior version of the bill would have resulted in 22 million Americans losing insurance over the next decade.
A day after that CBO analysis was issued, McConnell postponed a planned vote on the legislation because of a revolt within his own party, including moderates and hard-line conservatives.
While the bill's prospects may look precarious, the same could have been said of health care legislation that ultimately was passed by the House of Representatives. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan called off a vote in March in the face of a rebellion involving the disparate factions of the party but managed to coax enough lawmakers to back it and engineered narrow approval on May 4.
Pence seeks support
Vice president Mike Pence sought to shore up support among the nation's governors at a meeting in Rhode Island, but a key Republican governor, Ohio's John Kasich, came out strongly against the revised bill, saying its Medicaid cuts were too deep and it does too little to stabilise the insurance market.
Kasich's opposition could put pressure on Rob Portman, a Republican senator from Ohio, who has not yet taken a position on the bill.
If the current Senate legislation collapses, some lawmakers have raised the possibility of seeking bipartisan legislation to fix parts of Obamacare but leaving intact the structure of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic former President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement, commonly known as Obamacare.
"There are changes that need to be made to the law," Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told MSNBC, citing "a bipartisan appetite to tackle this issue."
Moderate Susan Collins and conservative Rand Paul already oppose the revised Senate bill. Other Republican senators have either expressed concern or remained noncommittal, including Portman, Mike Lee, Shelley Moore Capito, John McCain, Dean Heller, John Hoeven, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, Ben Sasse, Cory Gardner, Todd Young and Thom Tillis. Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy floated an alternative plan.
The new version was crafted to satisfy the Republican Party's various elements, including moderates worried about Americans who would be left without medical coverage and hard-line conservatives who demand less government regulation of health insurance.
A provision championed by Republican Senator Ted Cruz and aimed at attracting conservatives would let insurers sell cheap, bare-bones insurance policies that would not have to cover broad benefits mandated under Obamacare.
But two major health insurance groups, America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, called on McConnell to drop the Cruz proposal, saying it would undermine protections for pre-existing medical conditions, raise insurance premiums and destabilise the individual insurance market.
The bill retained certain Obamacare taxes on the wealthy that the earlier version would have eliminated, a step moderates could embrace. But it kept the core of the earlier bill, including ending the expansion of Medicaid that was instrumental in enabling Obamacare to expand coverage to 20 million people, and restructuring that social safety-net program.
John Thune, a member of the Senate Republican leadership, said in order to complete work on the bill by the end of next week, Senate leaders would have to try to formally begin debate on Tuesday or Wednesday, a move that requires a majority vote.
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Inspired by Feeling Good On My Weight Loss Determination and Goals Metaphorically Speaking Eating, Intuitive Thoughts and Physical Activity Diary as of and other written musings initiated Wednesday July 5, 2017 until at least Wednesday July 26, 2017
songs for todays entry
Believer by Imagine Dragons
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
Whatever it Takes by Imagine Dragons
Counting Stars by One Republic
Hall of Fame by Script and William of the Black Eyed Peas
Survivor by Destiny’s Child
This is What You Came For by Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna
Iconic by Madonna feat. Chance the Rapper and Mike Tyson
Commander by Kelly Rowland
Diet Log From Wednesday July 5, 2017
Some roast and noodle with gournay garlic and herb cream cheese noodles mix that my husband made for me
Reeses Pieces Cereal with milk
Some orange flavored tang mix drink (close to 32 ounces)
A quaker granola bar, oatmeal brand maybe
Within 15 minutes from this entry I will have finished a 32 ounce Glacier Cherry flavored Gatorade Frost Drink
Some supplements
Mileage walked today
Back to my apartment from Graduate Hills-2 miles
To College Park Maryland metro station from my apartment and back to my apartment-6 miles
8 miles logged today
Tomorrow; aim to drink more liquids and strive to add at least 2 more miles to walk, by Friday improve on my eating somewhat
One thing that I feel blessed about; my husband and I fortunate to always have enough to eat regardless of the money we make. We do not collect foodstamps but are compassionate about women, men, and children who do use them. Last but not least, I feel blessed to have a husband who treats me well and loves me regardless of how much money I make.
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My psychic abilities expand everyday.
I wisely put a moderation on the number of commitments I pursue in order to ensure a greater chance of success (keeping in mind my fitness and udemy course andor other online class commitments year round, planning volunteer activities a max of 3 days out of the week, going to church, and my job search goals applying for college admission for a 2nd bachelors degree program in public relations market andor advertising by october 1, 2017 or sooner with an eye on enrollment by september 2018 andor sooner in online courses)). Smart focused work (what others consider hard work) and consistent effort make a wide difference especially when it comes to my walking fitness goals.
I am creating heaven on earth each day.
My mind is tuned to the higher planes of reality. I deserve abundance in all areas of my life.
Each Day I am building a stronger spiritual and celestial connection with my higher self and spirit ally team of the heaven worlds of divine love and divine happiness. I feel their gift of courage and bravery to me, along with other spiritual blessings to write and channel through celestial/heavenly influences and each day I become more intuitively adept at living my life and all areas of my life in alignment with my divine life purpose and destiny.
My ability to connect to the celestial forces of the heavenly realms are increasing daily. I use the blessing of this connection for greater creativity and wisdom in all areas of my life both present and future
I Call Upon What I Imagine To Be The Influence of Benevolent Spirits From the Heavenly Realms, my higher self, and my celestial spirit ally team for creativity in both my writings and all other areas of my life both present and future
Inspiring Weight Loss Stories For Me To Keep In Mind As a Foundation For Success
I lost weight by walking
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/01/coloma_woman_shares_secret_to.html
Coloma woman shares secret to weight-loss success: 'I walk every day - no excuses'
By Sue Thoms | [email protected] Follow on Twitter on January 24, 2013 at 8:04 AM, updated January 24, 2013 at 8:05 AM
170 Pounds Lost: Dr. Lee Coleman, Jr. Walks the Weight Off — And Sets an Example
By Personal Experience
http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/weight-loss-success-stories/170-pounds-lost-dr-lee-coleman-jr-walks-the-weight-off-and-sets-an-example/
She Walked Off 149 Pounds!
A health scare prompted Taneisha Marks to make herself a priority. Now she's half her former size!
http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-tips/how-one-woman-lost-149-pounds-through-diet-and-walking
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3535562/Andrew-Flinders-Taylor-year-long-potato-diet-lost-32kg-starting-January.html Man embarking on a year-long potato only diet has lost a staggering 32kg in three months and says he's has fewer bouts of anxiety and clinical depression
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inspiring story on Andrew Flinders Taylor inspiring stories on Rachel Frederickson, I find her story motivational even though I know some others may find it shocking http://www.eonline.com/news/507589/check-out-the-biggest-loser-s-most-dramatic-transformations-throughout-the-years
http://www.eonline.com/news/508347/bob-harper-speaks-out-on-rachel-frederickson-s-shocking-biggest-loser-weight-loss-i-was-stunned Bob Harper Speaks Out on Rachel Frederickson's Shocking
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Weight Loss: "I Was Stunned" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2552579/Biggest-Losers-Rachel-Frederickson-sparks-health-fears-155lbs-weight-loss.html Biggest Loser's Rachel Frederickson sparks health fears after dropping to 105lbs... as trainer Jillian Michaels appears shocked by her slim frame
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motivational story by Alasdair Wilkins I lost 100 pounds in a year. My “weight loss secret” is really dumb. http://www.vox.com/2015/7/7/8877041/losing-100-pounds http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2212993/I-lost-100lbs-months-How-man-dropped-body-weight-cutting-white-food.html Uplifting story on Edwin Velez I lost 100lbs in four months: How one man dropped a third of his body weight by cutting out 'white food'
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Inspirational Story on Professor Mark Haub of Kansas State University http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1328160/Nutrition-professor-loses-2-stone-doughnuts-cakes-crisps-diet.html Nutrition expert loses TWO STONE by eating doughnuts, cakes and crisps for ten weeks by David Gardner
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527,female,Vietnamese,Ms.,Chờ,K,Phan,"Praça Teófilo Braga 3",Loures,LI,Lisboa,2670-367,PT,Portugal,[email protected],Cored1939,phie4Ooqu5ae,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","21 217 184 6776",351,Lưu,12/20/1939,77,Sagittarius,MasterCard,5396848877301120,632,7/2022,,"1Z F08 463 23 3990 520 7",1078506088,59743302,Blue,"Boiler operator","Simply Appraisals","2010 Hyundai Grandeur",ScooterCollection.com.pt,O+,167.2,76.0,"5' 5""",165,9703ffcc-8de1-4d08-bfb7-4d7b85553d00,38.959593,-9.135013 528,female,Greenland,Mrs.,Martha,E,Kristiansen,"Anders Sadelmakares Gränd 95",VINDELN,,,"922 00",SE,Sweden,[email protected],Felded,ibae7ahB,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36",0933-4586746,46,Sørensen,10/3/1959,57,Libra,MasterCard,5518423436469884,322,2/2018,591003-3983,"1Z 530 082 06 3553 416 7",4900388251,54760045,Purple,"Farm and home management advisor","Pantry Food Stores","1997 Vector M12",MedicationSheet.se,A+,216.7,98.5,"5' 6""",167,a63af030-197a-4111-9a06-5a063731dab3,64.13363,19.795858 529,female,"Russian (Cyrillic)",Mrs.,Галина,Ф,Матвеева,"Seefeldstrasse 113","Klein Guschelmuth",,,1792,CH,Switzerland,[email protected],Handow,Oovo4vephoo,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36","026 840 93 23",41,,1/13/1982,35,Capricorn,MasterCard,5540824457807526,025,9/2019,,"1Z 740 719 09 1073 984 0",2088951035,55144094,Purple,"Telephone repairer",Multicerv,"2011 Dodge Charger",YouInsane.ch,A+,111.3,50.6,"5' 4""",162,76c0da8d-075c-4ad4-b4a4-4d28a2639ca6,46.909827,7.063382 530,female,Russian,Mrs.,Stella,M,Alekseyeva,"76 boulevard de Prague",NÎMES,LN,Languedoc-Roussillon,30000,FR,France,[email protected],Greftephing,AeF1chooSah,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36",04.81.53.89.83,33,,4/8/1972,44,Aries,Visa,4929580166097155,827,4/2020,"2720470929804 16","1Z 2Y3 823 42 3235 425 5",3389761950,88272965,Red,Longshoremen,"Idea Infinity","1995 Mitsubishi Valley",CasinoBouncer.fr,O+,163.5,74.3,"5' 4""",162,73e7fc5f-5130-46d6-bed4-e5de40c4e84c,43.79924,4.440258 531,male,Polish,Mr.,Wojciech,K,Kalinowski,"C/ Pablo Iglesias 20","Baños de Río Tobía",LO,"La Rioja",26320,ES,Spain,[email protected],Quelly,giej0ooTh,"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.95 Safari/537.36","789 407 883",34,Jasińska,10/3/1966,50,Libra,MasterCard,5163776224984515,547,12/2019,,"1Z E27 41E 20 8158 198 2",9451011186,31897855,Green,"Gaming and sports runner",Macroserve,"2007 Nissan Sentra",BackpackUmbrella.es,B+,246.8,112.2,"5' 8""",172,e946dc33-705b-4ab6-b8ec-a78954789fc8,42.272271,-2.66246 532,female,Finnish,Mrs.,Ella,T,Aaltonen,"Jykintie 69",RUOVESI,PI,Pirkanmaa,34600,FI,Finland,[email protected],Aquat1950,JeeNgei2pai,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko","040 458 5835",358,Kauppinen,4/20/1950,66,Taurus,Visa,4485584038798525,038,1/2018,200450-6843,"1Z 747 444 16 5245 963 7",5160503890,93017717,Blue,"Labor economist",Pointers,"2009 Luxgen Luxgen7",StressShow.fi,A+,201.7,91.7,"5' 4""",162,21c160f6-708f-4e63-ab33-663beafda9c9,61.884509,24.140563 533,male,Hispanic,Mr.,Floreal,Z,Palomino,"Clius 100",Obergerlafingen,,,4564,CH,Switzerland,[email protected],Motosed,mahShei5,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","032 248 85 10",41,Mota,1/30/1964,53,Aquarius,Visa,4716155429413569,630,9/2022,,"1Z E65 862 83 6600 264 7",0183218247,02744969,Orange,"Instructional aide","Thom McAn Store","1994 Skoda Felicia",TechnologyRooms.ch,B+,146.7,66.7,"5' 7""",170,03c01a7e-0357-4766-ab7d-0f2fc5172e78,47.210178,7.528489 534,male,Hobbit,Mr.,Iago,D,Tunnelly,"588 Sandown Rd",Bitterfontein,WC,"Western Cape",8202,ZA,"South Africa",[email protected],Yeard1965,Aimee5Usai,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36","083 199 7121",27,Tunnelly,1/13/1965,52,Capricorn,Visa,4539375586636605,911,4/2018,6501139514088,"1Z A97 805 62 9558 561 4",9534102645,13325918,Blue,"Job service specialist","John M. Smyth's Homemakers","2015 Chevrolet Camaro",CoachingBuilder.co.za,O+,126.3,57.4,"2' 2""",65,9be01726-a298-4814-a6ef-19798c9608e4,-31.096604,18.233797 535,male,Swedish,Mr.,Rami,A,Henriksson,"92 Taylor Street",BAROOGA,NSW,"New South Wales",3644,AU,Australia,[email protected],Shavoind,Fauv7Peeyoh,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36","(02) 9604 0055",61,Forsberg,8/3/1943,73,Leo,MasterCard,5415310979754976,164,5/2021,,"1Z 0E1 798 95 5219 511 9",3101720376,58272710,Blue,"Grinding and polishing worker","Music Den","2003 Volvo V70",StoryPortfolio.com.au,O+,144.1,65.5,"5' 5""",166,c57d263a-bbfa-4ea0-a74f-135036ff28fd,-35.978799,145.689933 536,male,Persian,Mr.,برنا,ش,"خامنه ای","Amerveldstraat 332",Humain,WHT,Hainaut,6900,BE,Belgium,[email protected],Sured1995,haeQueey0xe,"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0","0470 64 02 08",32,خالدی,1/26/1995,22,Aquarius,MasterCard,5239826647299692,605,9/2021,,"1Z 277 167 79 0285 726 9",6977030159,29070678,Black,"Apartment rental agent","Kragen Auto Parts","1997 Marcos Mantis",DownloadListings.be,O+,140.1,63.7,"6' 2""",187,b509da50-ca2a-4d51-a6dd-0b44ed65afbb,50.305305,5.2185 537,female,Norwegian,Mrs.,Sine,M,Johansen,"Postbox 142",Kangilinnguit,SM,Sermersooq,3930,GL,Greenland,[email protected],Rowend,ecaGae7tew,"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0","34 61 54",299,Sekse,2/16/1941,76,Aquarius,MasterCard,5476617243102014,501,3/2018,,"1Z 851 858 87 6606 142 0",2842730823,20645146,Blue,"Clinical social worker","O.K. Fairbanks","1995 Chevrolet Caprice",YardHomes.gl,B+,189.9,86.3,"5' 5""",165,30036756-fb2e-40ea-b822-f4245931109c,61.300921,-48.129826 538,female,Czech,Dr.,Karolína,J,Adamová,"Borgartuni 76",Reykjavík,,,131,IS,Iceland,[email protected],Youndep,Goofing6,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","412 3910",354,Svobodová,1/22/1971,46,Aquarius,MasterCard,5197672291590386,797,9/2022,,"1Z 518 Y62 60 6208 764 1",3024618439,40574119,Orange,"Chief engineer","id Boutiques","1998 Saturn SL",CameraStats.is,B+,191.0,86.8,"5' 1""",155,cbe227bf-86f2-4aa4-8f0c-c4d7923a8ce6,64.048795,-21.950413 539,female,Hobbit,Mrs.,Poppy,A,Gardner,"Brucker Bundesstrasse 58",GAINFARN,NO,"Lower Austria",2540,AT,Austria,[email protected],Neittle,ug3Ienash,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36","0650 744 85 97",43,Tûk,7/13/1944,72,Cancer,MasterCard,5317013381355577,323,12/2018,,"1Z 666 236 18 4164 007 3",7649400234,57638419,Blue,"Human resources recruiter","Monk Home Funding Services","2003 Bristol Blenheim",PetUpdate.at,B+,136.2,61.9,"2' 0""",61,8f496e87-0289-4388-86fd-9ef8b32a7bb9,48.001465,16.297941 540,male,Hobbit,Mr.,Tóbias,A,Diggle,"Huttenstrasse 96",TSCHUTTA,KA,Carinthia,9371,AT,Austria,[email protected],Reaut1947,ietheib5zuGhee,"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/55.0.2883.87 Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36","0664 329 04 89",43,Bolger,5/18/1947,69,Taurus,MasterCard,5170865565706016,331,12/2021,,"1Z 5Y3 625 43 3901 805 2",0763194998,01017095,Green,"Computer software engineer",Gantos,"1994 Mazda 121",PillowSpecialists.at,O+,113.1,51.4,"2' 5""",74,55ac4ccf-dece-4549-b0ed-44db54648a03,46.659561,14.608012 541,female,Swedish,Ms.,Vanessa,R,Abrahamsson,"Søndre Havnekaj 70",Skibby,SJ,"Region Sjælland",4050,DK,Denmark,[email protected],Whicagoers1933,Okaing0t,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36",26-11-76-45,45,Jakobsson,11/12/1933,83,Scorpio,Visa,4916495941965011,900,5/2019,121133-0860,"1Z 388 401 31 1867 095 6",5442458731,21193702,Yellow,"Lathe and turning machine tool tender","One-Up Realty","2002 Vauxhall Vectra",ReunionAgency.dk,B+,169.2,76.9,"5' 4""",163,67508149-7885-4147-8b3a-151044a7d543,55.702035,11.96693 542,female,Swedish,Ms.,Lotta,F,Sjöberg,"129 Zeas Pasalimani","Lakki (Latsi)",PA,Paphos,8840,CY,"Cyprus (Anglicized)",[email protected],Topers,ahx6uth2Qu,"Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 10_2_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.4.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14D27 Safari/602.1","26 993492",357,Engström,9/19/1943,73,Virgo,MasterCard,5392188633853146,706,7/2022,,"1Z 6F2 6Y6 07 3197 271 4",7612641304,05516520,Purple,"Rigging chaser","System Star Solutions","2003 Kia Sorento",ReportingDirect.com.cy,AB+,196.0,89.1,"5' 3""",160,471f8f9d-bcf6-4a4f-85b1-2cb793c812f8,41.417775,-72.922079 543,female,Hobbit,Ms.,Bell,T,Noakes,"2671 Carling Avenue",Ottawa,ON,Ontario,"K1Z 7B5",CA,Canada,[email protected],Therear,Ue5eetei,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36",613-322-6594,1,Roper,11/3/1973,43,Scorpio,MasterCard,5539504599053857,076,1/2022,"518 586 797","1Z V07 934 00 9490 204 8",0061903260,76511705,Purple,"Physical meteorologist","Harmony House","2001 Opel Meriva",Heyville.ca,O+,112.2,51.0,"3' 11""",120,a73396b6-b02a-4857-b2ed-5bacf8ceacc1,45.452519,-75.657203 544,male,England/Wales,Mr.,Andrew,G,Lucas,"152 Montgomery Square","Britannia Heights",,Nelson,7010,NZ,"New Zealand",[email protected],Uperte,Quootee9thoh,"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","(026) 2044-147",64,Russell,6/12/1993,23,Gemini,Visa,4532747741081157,632,7/2019,,"1Z 755 613 02 6058 547 1",6008191141,99525441,Green,"Hand typesetter","Gino's Hamburgers","2010 BMW 120",CodingReport.co.nz,A-,221.3,100.6,"6' 1""",185,8cddb008-45b2-44a6-af82-66ee99bbd0ec,-41.189836,173.362195 545,male,Chinese,Mr.,Yong,X,Han,"62 Rue Moftah Jguirim",Kambout,83,"Governorate Tataouine",3245,TN,Tunisia,[email protected],Culdriatat,Urie2oGh,"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","75 473 827",216,T'ien,5/19/1935,81,Taurus,MasterCard,5593599835656920,524,5/2018,,"1Z 7A6 313 30 4092 281 0",4869512598,36449738,Blue,"General office clerk","Body Toning","1996 Nissan Sentra",PhotoSchedule.tn,AB+,172.9,78.6,"5' 5""",164,b2c43e53-9b60-4d5b-a067-389f071df776,32.942098,10.456082 546,male,Eritrean,Mr.,Michael,S,Gabriel,"ul. Harcerska 94",Bytom,,,41-907,PL,Poland,[email protected],Bourn1985,bi0Bohs9ie,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","67 103 89 34",48,Senay,7/5/1985,31,Cancer,MasterCard,5361534117626481,426,12/2021,85070548993,"1Z 648 944 29 9903 015 4",2190088164,46512852,Blue,"Office machine and cash register technician","Block Distributors","2009 Jaguar X-Type",CampSale.pl,A+,220.0,100.0,"5' 7""",171,4446d346-a40b-4414-a9a8-c7c9eb090b81,50.365381,19.049999 547,female,Thai,Mrs.,ฐิติภัสร์,ก,สวนทอง,"Ørbækvej 88","Frederiksberg C",SJ,"Region Sjælland",1809,DK,Denmark,,Howle1976,ohg2oob9Oh,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36",60-44-56-07,45,แสนสีธัมมา,5/5/1976,40,Taurus,Visa,4716303538385134,947,9/2021,050576-1200,"1Z 164 A23 68 9657 464 7",8169302237,42158231,Blue,"Order processor","Sew-Fro Fabrics","2011 Volkswagen Touran",YogaPoints.dk,O-,196.0,89.1,"5' 5""",165,f4119bdc-513c-4a2c-aa26-6d9892751be7,55.693885,12.596521 548,female,French,Ms.,Orane,G,Clavette,"2654 Court Street",Manchester,MO,Missouri,63011,US,"United States",[email protected],Floore,fooCh3Phai,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36",636-577-8030,1,Roussel,8/4/1986,30,Leo,MasterCard,5370635295596070,164,7/2022,489-64-7262,"1Z 4A5 138 05 5111 669 6",9566418244,94205376,Blue,"Environmental protection officer","Vitamax Health Food Center","2012 Peugeot 3008",bizarrelives.com,O+,176.2,80.1,"5' 5""",165,a233ff98-6c20-4fe7-9d33-4a2097267fb4,39.491134,-90.339558 549,male,Russian,Mr.,Joseph,Z,Kovalev,"Rua João Paulo de Medeiros 334","Rio de Janeiro",RJ,"Rio de Janeiro",23560-110,BR,Brazil,[email protected],Requit,eJ1Neesha,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","(21) 4279-6132",55,,3/16/1941,75,Pisces,Visa,4929955094843534,581,5/2019,510.262.294-30,"1Z 35W 69F 77 4253 862 1",2019823365,64425909,Orange,"Auxiliary equipment operator","Disc Jockey","1994 Lotec Testa de Oro",ThisOrder.com.br,A+,151.1,68.7,"5' 10""",177,3548e66d-5938-4cc1-94e7-f1045ae4a678,-22.916687,-43.405666 550,male,Arabic,Mr.,Munif,T,Shamoun,"Via Varrone 74",Acireale,CT,Catania,95024,IT,Italy,[email protected],Dicable,neeNg0mu8,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36","0370 8491581",39,Shalhoub,4/25/1996,20,Taurus,MasterCard,5364388140248350,891,2/2022,WI77648003,"1Z 068 604 20 7413 690 7",9638236192,25523288,Blue,"Ticket agent","Mr. Steak","2004 Mercedes-Benz CLS",MainPodcast.it,A+,185.7,84.4,"5' 8""",172,af6b00be-0082-4cfb-8e30-ce118686d95f,37.609496,15.134354 551,female,Danish,Mrs.,Rolla,T,Hansen,"Canónigo Valiño 13",Alcácer,V,Valencia,46290,ES,Spain,[email protected],Poself,Jekiech6Ot,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36","778 393 757",34,Karlsen,9/17/1995,21,Virgo,MasterCard,5109824554704082,364,4/2022,,"1Z A84 8Y5 83 6846 437 3",9670547982,09241652,Blue,"Extruding and forming machine setter","Sanitary Grocery Stores","1999 Ford Escort",PCReplacement.es,O+,138.6,63.0,"5' 3""",161,1e7584b8-a24f-4ba7-aa1a-64f6d3d36608,39.340657,-0.524873 552,female,Hungarian,Mrs.,Agoti,T,Gölöncsér,"Olderbakken 35",LAKSEVÅG,,,5163,NO,Norway,[email protected],Grecenive,thuiZohi0x,"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/602.4.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0.3 Safari/602.4.8","944 60 615",47,Erdôs,2/13/1956,61,Aquarius,MasterCard,5262598152236548,266,5/2022,,"1Z 493 66W 29 5413 483 2",6588148702,33060053,Green,"Cost consultant",Monsource,"2006 Tata Safari",Topiczine.no,AB+,156.0,70.9,"5' 6""",168,8e1451cd-54dc-4aa9-b019-e54451cc4c17,60.373791,5.206776 553,male,German,Mr.,Phillipp,K,Schmidt,"52 rue de la République",LYON,RA,Rhône-Alpes,69001,FR,France,[email protected],Bablingdoper,Cah8ahjaiy,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",04.37.02.98.43,33,Klein,4/20/1976,40,Taurus,Visa,4556170647782201,317,12/2018,"1760469396623 63","1Z 534 W51 64 0082 630 0",6470382446,76380635,Blue,"Sewer pipe cleaner","Your Choices","2007 Renault Laguna",HitPatrol.fr,O-,222.0,100.9,"5' 6""",168,c6531aad-3c8c-4ff8-b80e-e725a4a0102b,45.743433,4.770838 554,female,Chinese,Mrs.,Mei,K,Meng,"9 Netherpark Crescent",STENTON,,,"EH42 5AX",GB,"United Kingdom",[email protected],Foophy,ke8Ozeiyo2G,"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/602.4.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0.3 Safari/602.4.8","070 2715 6177",44,Ku,9/28/1936,80,Libra,MasterCard,5517737405253636,314,9/2019,"BX 25 72 97 B","1Z F95 0V0 24 8709 909 3",7219633338,35358326,Blue,"Medicinal chemist","Flipside Records","2002 Saab 9-3",PoliticalFinder.co.uk,O+,106.3,48.3,"5' 0""",153,f36e4aac-9996-4f73-8d6d-df8e3e174fe3,55.880768,-3.479244 555,female,Italian,Ms.,Adalberta,V,Nucci,"Rauhankatu 58",HELSINKI,UU,Uusimaa,00880,FI,Finland,[email protected],Schight,ieB3teith7oh,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","050 746 7006",358,Lorenzo,1/6/1981,36,Capricorn,Visa,4532935395340603,126,7/2021,060181-682K,"1Z 80V Y46 28 7110 988 6",8816100754,67744668,Blue,"Claims representative","Muscle Factory","2009 Toyota Avensis",LoyaltyRebate.fi,B-,220.9,100.4,"5' 9""",174,819fe8d1-97ab-4cc9-95bf-d8a4307d3053,60.25706,24.954404 556,female,Vietnamese,Ms.,Tâm,T,Lưu,"39 Petworth Rd",DYCE,,,"AB2 2YL",GB,"United Kingdom",[email protected],Herad1974,cei3caiWi3,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko","079 0690 5714",44,Bùi,3/9/1974,42,Pisces,MasterCard,5474163297016646,108,5/2018,"CX 41 98 27","1Z Y79 215 57 1514 976 1",4287396222,80987637,Red,"Passenger service agent",Multicerv,"2003 Daihatsu Terios",ChildQuestions.co.uk,O+,118.1,53.7,"5' 5""",164,14708b4e-02b5-4d3b-a786-9b29b580b63a,56.835249,-3.486295 557,female,Japanese,Mrs.,優香,優,守山,"R Padre João A L Ribeiro 74",Almacinha,VI,Viseu,3450-111,PT,Portugal,[email protected],Blead1980,ooyoo8ooHo,"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36","21 232 585 5063",351,安並,4/18/1980,36,Aries,Visa,4716829863453485,759,2/2022,,"1Z 856 511 55 9414 479 7",3283439357,34355440,Red,Pharmacist,"Body Toning","2001 Nissan Altima",InsuranceZap.com.pt,O-,190.5,86.6,"5' 2""",157,171bf297-30f1-42b0-a71e-bd3ae0ddfe04,40.315376,-8.283159
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How Many Republicans In Congress From California
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How Many Republicans In Congress From California
California Locations By Voter Registration
John Cox on the Republican Party’s future in California
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The following is a list of California locations by voter registration.
In October 2020, California had 22,047,448 registered voters, comprising 87.87% of its total eligible voters. Of those registered voters, 10,170,317 were registered , 5,334,323 were and, 5,283,853 were No Party Preference .
The with the highest percentage of registered Republicans was Modoc County, with registered Republicans comprising half of the registered voters. The ten counties with the highest percentage of registered Republicans are relatively small, with an average population of 91,776, and all but one are landlocked.
Similarly, the counties with the ten lowest percentages of registered voters are all relatively small and landlocked, with the exception of Monterey County. Kings County had the lowest percentage of registered voters, with just 34.7 percent of its population registered to vote. The two smallest counties in California by population also had the highest percentage of registered voters; Sierra County had the highest percentage, with 73.1 percent of its population registered to vote.
Number Of Registered Voters By State 2021
Voter registration is the requirement that a person eligible to vote registers on an electoral roll before that person is entitled or permitted to vote. Voter registration may be automatic or may require each eligible person to submit an application. Registration varies between jurisdictions.
Almost 92 million eligible Americans did not vote in the 2016 presidential election. Voter registration and participation are crucial for the nations democracy to function properly and for the US government to provide fair representation.
Low voter registration numbers and low voter turnout can be the result of several factors. To increase voter registration and participation, barriers to registering to vote, and barriers to voting must be eliminated, such as additional restrictions on identification forms and reforms to ensure all eligible ballots will be securely counted. Additionally, those alienated from the democratic process or discouraged from voting must feel that their voice is heard by their leaders and encouraged to participate in elections.
Some pro-voter policies that have shown to increase voter registration and participation are:
Automatic voter registration.
Mcconnell Not Troubled At All By Trumps Suggestion Of Supreme Court Challenge
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended Mr. Trump for falsely claiming that he won reelection, although he acknowledged that the presidential race had not yet been decided.
Its not unusual for people to claim they have won the election. I can think of that happening on numerous occasions, McConnell told reporters in Kentucky. But, claiming to win the election is different from finishing the counting.
Claiming to win the election is different from finishing the counting, Mitch McConnell says, adding that Americans should not be shocked that Democrats and Republicans are both lawyering up for the close races
CBS News
He also said he was not troubled at all by the president suggesting that the outcome of the election might be determined by the Supreme Court. The president cannot unilaterally bring a case to the Supreme Court, what its unclear what case the Trump campaign would have if it challenged the counting of legally cast absentee ballots.
McConnell, who won his own closely watched reelection race on Tuesday evening, expressed measured confidence about Republicans maintaining their majority in the Senate. He said he believed there is a chance we will know by the end of the day if Republicans won races in states like Georgia and North Carolina.
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About The House Of Representatives
The United States is also divided into 435 congressional districts with a population of about 750,000 each. Each district elects a representative to the House of Representatives for a two-year term.
As in the Senate, the day-to-day activities of the House are controlled by the majority party. Here is a count of representatives by party:
List Of Current Members Of The Us Congress
Features of Congress Background United States House of Representatives elections, 2022 Analysis Lifetime voting records Net worth of United States Senators and Representatives Staff salaries of United States Senators and Representatives National Journal vote ratings
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the United States of America’s federal government. It consists of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, with members chosen through direct election.
Congress has 535 voting members. The Senate has 100 voting officials, and the House has 435 voting officials, along with five delegates and one resident commissioner.
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Democrats Path To Senate Control Narrows As Republicans Hold Onto Critical Seats
Democrats path to seizing the Senate continued to narrow Wednesday as Republicans held onto a cluster of seats in critical states and the two parties continued to fight to control the upper chamber of Congress in close contests across the country.
Democrats won a crucial seat in Arizonaearly Wednesday, with , after former Gov. John Hickenlooper defeated Senator Cory Gardner Tuesday night in the high-profile fight for Colorados Senate seat. Those victories were essential to Democrats push to take the Senate majority.
In Georgia, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, a Democrat, advanced to a runoff election against Senator Kelly Loeffler, the Republican incumbent. The other race in the state, between Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challenger, and Senator David Perdue, a Republican, was too close to call.
And early returns showed Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, with a lead over his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham, in a seat that strategists in both parties identified as a possible tipping point.
There were still several crucial Senate races that were not yet called that Democrats hope to win, including Maine,and Democrats remained bullish on their chances in Georgia.
Record High Percentage Of Voters Registered In California
Voter interest continues to grow in California as officials announced Thursday over 83% of the electorate has registered to vote, the highest entering a general election since 1952.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Voter interest continues to grow in California as officials announced Thursday over 83% of the electorate has registered to vote, the highest entering a general election since 1952.
Following a Super Tuesday in which a record 9.6 million Californians voted, Secretary of State Alex Padilla says the registration spike has continued even with the extended coronavirus shutdown.;;
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, California is on track to reach another registration milestone, Padilla said in a statement. California will reach 21 million registered voters before the November General Election-extending our current state record for voter registration.;
After lawmakers bumped the primary up from June to March to encourage participation, California counted a record number of votes and notched its second highest turnout for a primary. Padilla and other officials said the move was a clear success as it forced presidential candidates to campaign in the nations largest state.
In the first registration report since the primary, Padilla says 2.8 million more people have signed up to vote compared to a similar point in the 2016 election cycle. A total of 20.9 million of the states 25 million eligible are slated to participate Nov. 3.
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In October 2020 California Had 22047448 Registered Voters Comprising 8787% Of Its Total Eligible Voters
15 of these are republicans while the other 38 are democrats. How are you touting that a success?” he said. House of representatives, 7 are held by republicans: How many republicans are in office in california? Mike garcia, the new, and perhaps very temporary, congressman from the 25th district of california. It’s been a total failure. Of those registered voters, 10,170,317 were registered democrats, 5,334,323 . Before seeing this map of republicans in california, i was a bit misinformed. There’s still plenty of red on that map, but it’s almost all concentrated in the far north. It is a bicameral body consisting of the lower house, the california state assembly, with 80 members, and the upper house, the california state senate, with 40 members. Last week california republicans got a rare bit of good news: How does california select its electors? The fluid nature of the state’s social, economic, and political lifeshaped so much by immigrantshas for centuries made california a laboratory for testing new modes of living.
Out of the 53 seats california is apportioned in the u.s. Their embrace of the measure is often cited as one of the central reasons for the steep decline of registered republicans in california over several decades. That’s why your rent is ridiculous. Before seeing this map of republicans in california, i was a bit misinformed. California built less than half the housing units it should have in the 2000s.
Cori Bush Becomes Missouris First Black Congresswoman Cbs News Projects
7 Republican districts in California voted Clinton in 2016
Cori Bush, a progressive Democrat and activist, has become Missouris first Black congresswoman, according to CBS News projections. With 88% of votes reported, Bush is leading Republican Anthony Rogers 78.9% to 19% to represent the states first congressional district, which includes St. Louis and Ferguson.
Bush, 44, claimed victory on Tuesday, promising to bring change to the district. As the first Black woman and also the first nurse and single mother to have the honor to represent Missouri in the United States Congress, let me say this: To the Black women, the Black girls, the nurses, the essential workers, the single mothers, this is our moment, she told supporters in St. Louis.
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Figure 2 The Land Area Of The State Is Evenly Balanced Between The Two Parties
NOTE: Shading reflects share of votes cast for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election .
In Figure 2, California appears balanced between red and blue areas. But if we adjust the map so that places with more eligible residents take up more space, the blue places with large Democratic cities dominate the map, as shown in Figure 3. The interior may hold a majority of the states territory, but it accounts for a small fraction of its voting population.
Gradual But Steady Increase In Veteran Representation
Going back to the House of Representatives, there will be 18 new members of the House who have served in the US military. This is up from 14 in 2016 and 12 in 2014 and 2012. Those in the military and veteran community see this as a big deal, and are hoping for more veterans to run for Congress and win in the future.
As far as the Senate goes, there is one non-incumbent veteran who won, Rick Scott in Florida who is a Republican. There will be about 19 veterans serving in the Senate in 2019
Of those 19 new members of Congress, 3 are women veterans, 7 are Democrats, and 12 are Republicans. As we look to these men and women, we hope that they will be able to bring the importance of veteran benefits and the military to Washington, even more so than in the past.
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Incoming Veterans In Congress
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In the November 2018 midterm elections, there were 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats up for grabs. Over 200 veterans ran for office in the 2018 Midterm elections, with 18 veterans winning their first term in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate.
Issues For Which Location Does Not Matter
Despite the spectrum of people and lifestyles across California, there are some issues where opinion is roughly similar everywhere. Many of these issues touch on the general role of government: its size and scope. At least a majority-but never more than two-thirds-in every place in the state believes taxes are too high . More politically liberal places like San Francisco or the East Bay are the least aggrieved, but the difference is small. Likewise, 42 percent think the budget situation is a big problem but the number falls in a relatively narrow range of between 40 and 58 percent in all but 11 of our places.
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Republicans Are Well Positioned To Take The House In 2022
Although we dont yet know the winners of some House races, we can already look ahead to the 2022 midterms and see a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House. Midterm elections historically go well for the party thats not in the White House, and the out-of-power party is especially likely to do well in the House, since every seat is up for election .
Since the end of World War II, the presidential party has lost an average of 27 House seats in midterm elections, as the chart below shows. No matter how many seats Democrats end up with after 2020s election at this point, they will probably end up somewhere in the low 220s a loss of that magnitude would easily be enough for Republicans to retake the House.
The recent history of midterms in a Democratic presidents first term seems especially promising for the GOP, too. Following Bill Clintons election in 1992, Democrats lost more than 50 seats in 1994, and after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, Democrats lost more than 60 seats.
If Democrats had added five to 10 seats this year, they could have survived a 20-seat loss in the midterms. Instead, Republicans will probably need to win fewer than 10 seats to gain a slender majority in 2022.
List Of Candidates Who Ran In Us Congress Elections 2018
The Republican Party held majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress entering the 2018 election. In the U.S. Senate, there were 23 Democratic seats, eight Republican seats, and two seats held by independents up for election in 2018. The Democratic Party needed to pick up two seats in the Senate in order to regain the majority they lost in 2014. All 435 seats in the U.S. House were up for election. In order to win the chamber, the Democratic Party needed to pick up 24 seats in 2018.
for the list of all candidates who ran in the 2018 U.S. Congress elections. For a listing of all candidates who ran in 2016, .
U.S. House Seats held by the Democratic Party 224 Seats held by the Republican Party 212 Open seats currently held by the Democratic Party 17 Open seats currently held by the Republican Party 37 Seats held by the Republican Party and carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016 23 Seats held by the Democratic Party and carried by Donald Trump in 2016 12
Seats held by the Democratic Party 50 Seats held by the Republican Party 50 Open seats currently held by the Democratic Party 0 Open seats currently held by the Republican Party 3 Seats held by the Republican Party and carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016 1 Seats held by the Democratic Party and carried by Donald Trump in 2016 10
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Net Worth Of United States Senators And Representatives
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How much are your senators and representatives worth?After heated budget debates, threats of government shutdowns and multiple votes to raise the debt ceiling, Congress has been dealing with fiscal issues on a regular basis. It is no wonder, then, that when the average citizen has the means to take a peak at each members ability to handle his or her personal finance, intrigue abounds.
The latest data calculated by OpenSecrets.org reports on disclosed information from 2012. The latest batch of numbers shows that the 113th Congress had a median net worth of $1,008,767. This is the first time in history that the majority of members are millionaires.
For information on which members saw the highest change during their tenure, please see Ballotpedia’s page on the Changes in Net Worth of U.S. Senators and Representatives .
List Of United States Representatives From California
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This is a list of members of the members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of California.
For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state, see United States congressional delegations from California.
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Issues For Which Location Plays Some Role
Though taxes and concern about the budget show relatively little geographic variation, one topic that touches on similar issues of government size and scopeopinions of Obamacareshows more . Support is strongestbetween 60 and 70 percentin the Bay Area and central and coastal LA, and weakestless than 40 percentin the rural far north and east of the state. Yet most of our places remain lukewarm toward the law, with support between about 40 and 60 percent. This includes most of the Central Valley and most of the coast outside of central and coastal LA and the Bay Area.
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Republicans Secure Half Of Total Us Senate Seats
WASHINGTON – U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska won reelection Wednesday, assuring Republicans of at least 50 seats in the 100-member Senate for the next two years, while leaving control of the chamber uncertain until two runoff elections are held in Georgia in early January.
After slow vote-counting in the northwestern-most state of the U.S. after the November 3 election, news media concluded that Sullivan had an insurmountable lead over Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon who ran as an independent candidate with Democratic support. The contest was called with Sullivan, a conservative, ahead by 20 percentage points.
With Republicans assured of at least half the Senate seats, attention now turns to the two January 5 runoff elections in the southern state of Georgia.
Two conservative Republican lawmakers Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler now hold the two seats, but both failed in separate contests last week to win a majority, forcing them into the runoffs.
Perdue faces Democrat Jon Ossoff, an investigative journalist who narrowly lost a 2017 race for a seat in the House of Representatives before trying to oust Perdue from the Senate seat he has held since 2015.
Loeffler, who was appointed to her Senate seat in early 2020, is facing Raphael Warnock, a progressive Democrat who is senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Who Are The Winners And Losers
Maine Democrats had high hopes of unseating Susan Collins, the 67-year-old moderate Republican who had been trailing her Democrat rival in the polls for months.
But Sara Gideon, 48, conceded in a call to Ms Collins on Wednesday afternoon.
So far, Democrats have managed a net gain of one seat in the Senate election.
Democratic former governor John Hickenlooper won a key Colorado seat from the Republican incumbent Cory Gardner.
Mr Hickenlooper, who stood for the Democratic nomination for president, was governor of Colorado for two terms from 2011 until last year. His rival was considered particularly vulnerable because of his allegiance to President Trump.
In Arizona, former astronaut Mark Kelly defeated Republican incumbent and former fighter pilot Martha McSally. Mr Kelly earlier said he was “confident that when the votes are counted, we’re going to be successful in this mission”.
However, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump ally Lindsey Graham have both been re-elected in their seats of Kentucky and South Carolina respectively.
And in Alabama, Republican candidate Tommy Tuberville took a seat from the Democratic incumbent Doug Jones.
Democrats Path To Senate Control Narrows As Republicans Hold Onto Critical Seats
Democrats path to seizing the Senate continued to narrow Wednesday as Republicans held onto a cluster of seats in critical states and the two parties continued to fight to control the upper chamber of Congress in close contests across the country.
Democrats won a crucial seat in Arizonaearly Wednesday, with Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, defeating Senator Martha McSally, after former Gov. John Hickenlooper defeated Senator Cory Gardner Tuesday night in the high-profile fight for Colorados Senate seat. Those victories were essential to Democrats push to take the Senate majority.
In Georgia, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, a Democrat, advanced to a runoff election against Senator Kelly Loeffler, the Republican incumbent. The other race in the state, between Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challenger, and Senator David Perdue, a Republican, was too close to call.
And early returns showed Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, with a lead over his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham, in a seat that strategists in both parties identified as a possible tipping point.
There were still several crucial Senate races that were not yet called that Democrats hope to win, including Maine,and Democrats remained bullish on their chances in Georgia.
The 2018 Congressional Retirement Tracker
Here’s a running list of all the lawmakers calling it quits this year.
If you want to see a political wave forming a year before an election, watch the retirements.
Theyre often a leading indicator for which direction a party is headed, and so far, 2018 is shaping up ominously for Republicans, who will be defending 40 open House seats this fall compared with the Democrats 20. By far the biggest and most consequential retirement announcement came in early April, as Speaker Paul Ryan told his colleagues he would not seek reelection to his House seat.
Far more Republicans are leaving Congress voluntarily than Democrats, putting the partys control of the chamber in jeopardy. Several veteran Republican lawmakers in competitive districts are calling it quits, depriving the GOP of the advantage of incumbency in races that could determine control of the House in 2019.
Mcconnell Not Troubled At All By Trump’s Suggestion Of Supreme Court Challenge
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended Mr. Trump for falsely claiming that he won reelection, although he acknowledged that the presidential race had not yet been decided.
“It’s not unusual for people to claim they have won the election. I can think of that happening on numerous occasions,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky. “But, claiming to win the election is different from finishing the counting.”
“Claiming to win the election is different from finishing the counting,” Mitch McConnell says, adding that Americans “should not be shocked” that Democrats and Republicans are both lawyering up for the close races https://t.co/fxHKy8hSEp
CBS News November 4, 2020
He also said he was “not troubled at all” by the president suggesting that the outcome of the election might be determined by the Supreme Court. The president cannot unilaterally bring a case to the Supreme Court, what it’s unclear what case the Trump campaign would have if it challenged the counting of legally cast absentee ballots.
McConnell, who won his own closely watched reelection race on Tuesday evening, expressed measured confidence about Republicans maintaining their majority in the Senate. He said he believed there is a “chance we will know by the end of the day” if Republicans won races in states like Georgia and North Carolina.
Could Flip Under The Right Conditions: Michigan Iowa Montana Kansas And Georgia Special Election
Michigan: Michigan is one of the most hotly contested states in the presidential race, and the reelection bid of Sen. Gary Peters will get caught up in that. Democrats say the fact that the coronavirus has hit Michigan hard makes it more likely Biden can win this state, which was crucial to Trumps 2016 victory. In the Senate race, Republicans have made a big deal out of John James, an Iraq War veteran and conservative media darling. James has outraised Peters for three straight quarters and is close to having as much money as Peters in the bank. Democrats argue Republicans are too bullish on a candidate who also lost a Senate race against a Democrat in 2018. Polls have shown this race close between the two.
Montana: Can a popular Democratic governor who won in Trump country unseat a sitting Republican senator? Term-limited Gov. Steve Bullock , a former 2020 presidential candidate, is running against Sen. Steve Daines . Bullock is the Democrat with the best shot, given hes won three times statewide, including when Trump swept the state in 2016. And in 2018, Sen. Jon Tester won a tough reelection fight. But can Bullock unseat a sitting Republican senator in a state that some strategists estimate could vote for Trump by as many as 20 points?
Its Not All Bad News For Democrats
While it was unquestionably a good night for Republicans, Democrats still held onto most of the seats they won in 2018 and will continue to be the majority party in the House. Thats in part because they retained most of the suburban districts they picked up in 2018.
Of the 233 seats that Democrats held coming into the election, 186 of them were in districts that were predominantly or partly suburban in nature, according to density categorizations by Bloombergs CityLab. Thus far, Democrats have lost seven of those seats, but they captured one GOP-held suburban seat around Atlanta. And thanks to redistricting, theyve also won two formerly Republican seats around Greensboro and Raleigh in North Carolina, which reflect the partys strength in more populous areas.
Because of their relative success in the suburbs, Democrats kept many seats in places President Trump won in 2016. Coming into the election, Democrats held 30 seats in districts Trump carried in 2016, and they wouldve lost their majority if theyd lost more than half of them . But theyve won 18 of them so far and picked up one from the GOP . In fact, more than half of Republicans gains have come in seats representing places that Trump won by a pretty sizable margin in 2016. Well have to wait a bit before data can tell us how congressional districts voted in 2020, but for now it seems many Republican gains were made by picking off the lowest-hanging fruit.
An Incoming Class Of History
Several of the newly elected state representatives are making history.
The Republican Madison Cawthorn, 25, who beat the Democrat Moe Davis to represent North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, will become the youngest member of Congress in modern history.
The Democrat Cori Bush is set to become the first Black congresswoman from Missouri after winning in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
The Democrats Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres will also be the first openly gay Black men to serve in Congress, after winning in New York’s 17th and 15th districts respectively.
And nine out of the eleven Republicans who have so far unseated incumbent Democrats are women wins that will drastically expand the representation of women and especially of women of color in the House Republican caucus.
Currently, there are just 13 voting female Republican representatives in the House and 11 female Republican incumbents who ran for reelection in 2020.
Collins Says Gideon Called To Concede
Senator Susan Collins of Maine told supporters on Wednesday that her Democratic opponent, Sara Gideon, had called her to concede the race. Without taking Collins’ seat, Democrats have little change of claiming the Senate majority.
“I have news for everyone. I just received a very gracious call from Sara Gideon conceding the race,” Collins told supporters on Wednesday afternoon.
Collins, one of the more moderate members of Senate, was considered particularly vulnerable this year. If she had received under 50% of the vote, the race would have proceeded to a runoff, under Maine’s system of ranked-choice voting.
Gideon significantly outraised Collins, and hit the senator repeatedly for voting to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Republicans Are Well Positioned To Take The House In 2022
Although we dont yet know the winners of some House races, we can already look ahead to the 2022 midterms and see a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House. Midterm elections historically go well for the party thats not in the White House, and the out-of-power party is especially likely to do well in the House, since every seat is up for election .
Since the end of World War II, the presidential party has lost an average of 27 House seats in midterm elections, as the chart below shows. No matter how many seats Democrats end up with after 2020s election at this point, they will probably end up somewhere in the low 220s a loss of that magnitude would easily be enough for Republicans to retake the House.
The recent history of midterms in a Democratic presidents first term seems especially promising for the GOP, too. Following Bill Clintons election in 1992, Democrats lost more than 50 seats in 1994, and after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, Democrats lost more than 60 seats.
If Democrats had added five to 10 seats this year, they could have survived a 20-seat loss in the midterms. Instead, Republicans will probably need to win fewer than 10 seats to gain a slender majority in 2022.
The Number Of People Each House Member Represents Will Change
The number of residents represented by each House member will mostly grow in 2022, though it will decrease per representative in some states.
Since Montana gained a representative, its two House members will now split the state’s population currently represented by Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican. The addition of another House seat means Montana’s House members will represent the least amount of people compared to House members in other states.
Delaware’s sole House district, currently held by Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, will be the largest in terms of population.
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New Yorkers Become First Black And Openly Gay Members Of Congress
Tuesday night will be historic in part because of the diversity of candidates elected to the House. Democrats Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones, both of New York, are the first Black and openly gay members of Congress.
Meanwhile, Republican Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is leading in North Carolina’s 11th district, a safe Republican seat. Cawthorn, 25, won the June primary against a Trump-backed candidate for the seat vacated by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows . He has come under fire for visiting Hitler’s retreat and for his campaign launching a website which included a racist broadside against his Democratic opponent.
Maine Senate Race A Toss
With polls closing at 8 p.m., the hotly contested Maine Senate race remains a toss-up. Senator Susan Collins, running for her fifth term, is considered one of the most moderate Republicans in the Senate, but she is facing considerable skepticism from Democrats and independents who previously supported her. State Speaker of the House Sara Gideon is the Democratic candidate, and has posted record fundraising.
CBS News projects that Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware and Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts have both won reelection. Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma also won reelection.
The Alabama Senate race is leaning toward Republican Tommy Tuberville, who is taking on incumbent Senator Doug Jones, the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate.
The Tennessee Senate race is also leaning Republican. The Mississippi Senate race is likely Republican. The Senate races in New Hampshire, Illinois, and Rhode Island are lean Democratic, and New Jersey is likely Democratic.
Cori Bush Becomes Missouri’s First Black Congresswoman Cbs News Projects
Cori Bush, a progressive Democrat and activist, has become Missouri’s first Black congresswoman, according to CBS News projections. With 88% of votes reported, Bush is leading Republican Anthony Rogers 78.9% to 19% to represent the state’s first congressional district, which includes St. Louis and Ferguson.
Bush, 44, claimed victory on Tuesday, promising to bring change to the district. “As the first Black woman and also the first nurse and single mother to have the honor to represent Missouri in the United States Congress, let me say this: To the Black women, the Black girls, the nurses, the essential workers, the single mothers, this is our moment,” she told supporters in St. Louis.
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Republicans Are Expected To Gain Seats In Redrawn 2022 Congressional Maps But Democrats Could Be Worse Off
U.S. Census data released Monday will shift political power in Congress, reapportioning two House seats to Texas and one each to Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, Colorado, and Montana and stripping a seat from California , New York , Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and West Virginia. Florida, Texas, and Arizona each controlled entirely by Republicans had been expecting to pick up an additional seat.
“On balance, I think this reapportionment offers a small boost for Republicans, but the bigger boost is likely to come from how Republicans draw these seats in Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia,” the Cook Political Report‘s Dave Wasserman tells Axios. “Reapportionment itself means little compared to the redistricting fights to come.” It won’t exactly be a level playing field.
“Republicans control the redistricting process in far more states than do Democrats, because of GOP dominance in down-ballot elections,”The New York Times reports. “Democrats, meanwhile, have shifted redistricting decisions in states where they have controlled the government such as California, Colorado, and Virginia to independent commissions intended to create fair maps.”
House seats broken down by final redistricting authority :
– Republican: 187
Dave Wasserman April 26, 2021
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What Is The New Balance Of Power In The House
House Democrats held onto their majority but lost seats to Republican challengers.
More than a dozen incumbent Democrats lost re-election bids, despite earlier projections they could gain up to 15 seats.
Democrats took the chamber after they netted 41 seats in the 2018 midterm elections, their largest single-year pickup since the post-Watergate midterms of 1974. But some of those new Democrats were among the partys losers in 2020.
Just How Bad Was The 2018 Election For House Republicans
On Thursday, Democrat Jared Golden beat Maine Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin, marking the 33rd seat pickup for Democrats in the 2018 election.
There are seven races in the House left uncalled all are Republican-held seats; Democrats lead in five of the seven. If they win all the races where their candidates are winning at the moment, Democrats will net 38 seats. If they lose them all which is very unlikely they will hold at a 33-seat gain.
In an interview Wednesday with the conservative Daily Caller website, President Donald Trump insisted that by his aggressive last-minute campaigning across the country he had saved House Republicans from seat losses that could have numbered into the 70s. I think I did very well, he concluded.
So did he? As compared to history?
Not really, is the answer.
Theres no question that Trump did not suffer the massive seat loss that his immediate predecessor Barack Obama did in his first midterm election in 2010. In that election, Republicans netted an astounding 63-seat gain, the largest since Democrats lost 72 House seats in the 1938 midterms.
But more broadly, the 33 seat loss by Republicans in 2018 places this election firmly in the upper echelon of House-seat losses by a presidents party in modern midterms.
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I Do Not Buy That A Social Media Ban Hurts Trumps 2024 Aspirations: Nate Silver
sarah: Yeah, Democrats might not have their worst Senate map in 2022, but it will by no means be easy, and how they fare will have a lot to do with the national environment. And as we touched on earlier, Bidens overall approval rating will also make a big difference in Democrats midterm chances.
nrakich: Yeah, if the national environment is even a bit Republican-leaning, that could be enough to allow solid Republican recruits to flip even Nevada and New Hampshire. And then it wouldnt even matter if Democrats win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
One thing is for sure, though whichever party wins the Senate will have only a narrow majority, so I think were stuck in this era of moderates like Sens. Joe Manchin and Lisa Murkowski controlling every bills fate for at least a while longer.
sarah: Lets talk about big picture strategy, then, and where that leaves us moving forward. Its still early and far too easy to prescribe election narratives that arent grounded in anything, but one gambit the Republican Party seems to be making at this point is that attacking the Democratic Party for being too progressive or woke will help them win.
What do we make of that playbook headed into 2022? Likewise, as the party in charge, what are Democrats planning for?
With that being said, the GOPs strategies could still gin up turnout among its base, in particular, but its hard to separate that from general dissatisfaction with Biden.
Th Congress 2007 And 2008
The 110th Congress is noteworthy because its members were elected by voters frustrated by the protracted war in Iraq and the continued loss of American soldiers. Democrats were swept into power in Congress, leaving Republican President George W. Bush and his party with diminished authority.
University of California political scientist G. William Domhoff wrote:
“The unexpected Democratic victory hobbled the right wing of the power elite and returned moderate conservatives to the central position they had held on policy issues for decades until the Republicans took control of the White House in 2000 and then both houses of Congress in 2002.”
Said Bush after the results became clear in 2006:
“I’m obviously disappointed with the outcome of the election, and as the head of the Republican Party, I share a large part of the responsibility. I told my party’s leaders that it is now our duty to put the elections behind us and work together with the Democrats and independents on the great issues facing this country.”
White House: Republican
House: Democrats held 233 seats, Republicans held 202 seats
Senate: Democrats held 49 seats, Republicans held 49 seats; there was one independent and one independent Democrat
*Notes: U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut was reelected in 2006 as an independent candidate and became an Independent Democrat. U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont was elected in 2006 as an independent.
About The House Of Representatives
The United States is also divided into 435 congressional districts with a population of about 750,000 each. Each district elects a representative to the House of Representatives for a two-year term.
As in the Senate, the day-to-day activities of the House are controlled by the majority party. Here is a count of representatives by party:
How Are The Results Reported
The election results on this page are reported by the Associated Press . AP call the winner in a state when they determine that the trailing candidate has no path to victory. This can happen before 100% of votes in a state have been counted.
Estimates for the total vote in each state are also provided by AP. The numbers update throughout election night, as more data on voter turnout becomes available.
Th Congress 2015 And 2016
The 114th Congress was notable because Republicans won their largest majorities in the House and Senate in decades after voters used the midterm election in 2014 to express dissatisfaction with a Democratic president, Barack Obama. Democrats lost control of the Senate in the 2014 elections.
Said Obama after the results became clear:
“Obviously, Republicans had a good night. And they deserve credit for running good campaigns. Beyond that, I’ll leave it to all of you and the professional pundits to pick through yesterday’s results.”
White House: Democrat
House: Republicans held 246 seats, Democrats held 187 seats; there were two vacancies.
Senate: Republicans held 54 seats, Democrats held 44 seats; there were two independents, both of whom caucused with the Democrats.
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Opposition to Obamacare Becomes Political Liability for GOP Incumbents
In the 2014 elections, Republicans rode a wave of anti-Affordable Care Act sentiment to pick up nine Senate seats, the largest gain for either party since 1980. Newly elected Republicans such as Cory Gardner in Colorado and Steve Daines in Montana had hammered their Democratic opponents over the health care law during the campaign and promised to repeal it.
Six years later, those senators are up for reelection. Not only is the law still around, but it’s gaining in popularity. What was once a winning strategy has become a political liability.
Public sentiment about the ACA, also known as Obamacare, has shifted considerably during the Trump administration after Republicans tried but failed to repeal it. Now, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis, which has led to the loss of jobs and health insurance for millions of people, health care again looks poised to be a key issue for voters this election.
With competitive races in Colorado, Montana, Arizona, North Carolina and Iowa pitting Republican incumbents who voted to repeal the ACA against Democratic challengers promising to protect it, attitudes surrounding the health law could help determine control of the Senate. Republicans hold a slim three-vote majority in the Senate but are defending 23 seats in the Nov. 3 election. Only one Democratic Senate seat — in Alabama, where incumbent Doug Jones is up against former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville — is considered in play for Republicans.
“The fall election will significantly revolve around people’s belief about what [candidates] will do for their health coverage,” said Dr. Daniel Derksen, a professor of public health at the University of Arizona.
The Affordable Care Act has been a wedge issue since it was signed into law in 2010. Because it then took four years to enact, its opponents talked for years about how bad the not-yet-created marketplace for insurance would be, said Joe Hanel, spokesperson for the Colorado Health Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on health policy analysis. And they continued to attack the law as it took full effect in 2014.
Gardner, for example, ran numerous campaign ads that year criticizing the ACA and, in particular, President Barack Obama’s assertion that “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.”
But now, Hanel said, the ACA’s policies have become much more popular in Colorado as the costs of health exchange plans have dropped. Thus, political messaging has changed, too.
“This time it’s the opposite,” Hanel said. “The people bringing up the Affordable Care Act are the Democrats.”
Despite Gardner’s multiple votes to repeal the ACA, he has largely avoided talking about the measure during the 2020 campaign. He even removed his pro-repeal position from his campaign website.
Democratic attack ads in July blasted Gardner for repeatedly dodging questions in an interview with Colorado Public Radio about his stance on a lawsuit challenging the ACA.
His opponent, Democrat John Hickenlooper, fully embraced the law when he was Colorado governor, using the measure to expand Medicaid eligibility to more low-income people and to create a state health insurance exchange. Now, he’s campaigning on that record, with promises to expand health care access even further.
Polling Data
Polling conducted by KFF for the past 10 years shows a shift in public opinion has occurred nationwide. (KHN is an editorially independent program of KFF, the Kaiser Family Foundation.)
“Since Trump won the election in 2016, we now have consistently found that a larger share of the public holds favorable views” of the health law, said Ashley Kirzinger, associate director of public opinion and survey research for the foundation. “This really solidified in 2017 after the failed repeal in the Senate.”
The foundation’s polling found that, in July 2014, 55% of voters opposed the law, while 36% favored it. By July 2020, that had flipped, with 51% favoring the law and 38% opposing it. A shift was seen across all political groups, though 74% of Republicans still viewed it unfavorably in the latest poll.
Public support for individual provisions of the ACA — such as protections for people with preexisting conditions or allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26 — have proved even more popular than the law as a whole. And the provision that consistently polled unfavorably — the mandate that those without insurance must pay a fine — was eliminated in 2017.
“We’re 10 years along and the sky hasn’t caved in,” said Sabrina Corlette, a health policy professor at Georgetown University.
Political Messaging
Following the passage of the ACA, Democrats didn’t reference the law in their campaigns, said Erika Franklin Fowler, a government professor at Wesleyan University and the director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising.
“They ran on any other issue they could find,” Fowler said.
Republicans, she said, kept promising to “repeal and replace” but weren’t able to do so.
Then, in the 2018 election, Democrats seized on the shift in public opinion, touting the effects of the law and criticizing Republicans for their attempts to overturn it.
“In the decade I have been tracking political advertising, there wasn’t a single-issue topic that was as prominent as health care was in 2018,” she said.
As the global health crisis rages, health care concerns again dominate political ads in the 2020 races, Fowler said, although most ads haven’t explicitly focused on the ACA. Many highlight Republicans’ support for the lawsuit challenging preexisting condition protections or specific provisions of the ACA that their votes would have overturned. Republicans say they, too, will protect people with preexisting conditions but otherwise have largely avoided talking about the ACA.
“Cory Gardner has been running a lot on his environmental bills and conservation funding,” Fowler said. “It’s not difficult to figure out why he’s doing that. It’s easier for him to tout that in a state like Colorado than it is to talk about health care.”
Similar dynamics are playing out in other key Senate races. In Arizona, Republican Sen. Martha McSally was one of the more vocal advocates of repealing the ACA while she served in the House of Representatives. She publicly acknowledged those votes may have hurt her 2018 Senate bid.
“I did vote to repeal and replace Obamacare,” McSally said on conservative pundit Sean Hannity’s radio show during the 2018 campaign. “I’m getting my ass kicked for it right now.”
She indeed lost but was appointed to fill the seat of Sen. Jon Kyl after he resigned at the end of 2018. Now McSally is in a tight race with Democratic challenger Mark Kelly, an astronaut and the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords.
“Kelly doesn’t have a track record of voting one way or another, but certainly in his campaign this is one of his top speaking points: what he would do to expand coverage and reassure people that coverage won’t be taken away,” said Derksen, the University of Arizona professor.
The ACA has proved a stumbling block for Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Joni Ernst of Iowa. In Maine, GOP Sen. Susan Collins cast a key vote that prevented the repeal of the law but cast other votes that weakened it. She now also appears vulnerable — but more for her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and for not doing more to oppose President Donald Trump.
In Montana, Daines, who voted to repeal the ACA, is trying to hold on to his seat against Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock, who used the law to expand the state’s Medicaid enrollment in 2015. At its peak, nearly 1 in 10 Montanans were covered through the expansion.
As more Montanans now face the high cost of paying for health care on their own amid pandemic-related job losses, Montana State University political science professor David Parker said he expects Democrats to talk about Daines’ votes to repeal cost-saving provisions of the ACA.
“People are losing jobs, and their jobs bring health care with them,” Parker said. “I don’t think it’s a good space for Daines to be right now.”
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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