SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2026
Let's take a look at the House: As our flailing nation's fleet of airplanes struggle to get back up in the air, we thought you might be interested in a few election notes.
We'll start in the Lone Star State:
It wasn't just Governor-elect Hinojosa and Senator-elect Talarico! This report in the New York Times described a wider sweep:
How Democrats Turned Texas Blue
It wasn’t just that James Talarico won the U.S. Senate race or that Gina Hinojosa defeated Greg Abbott, the three-term governor. Up and down the ballot, Democrats swept Texas, winning all of the top statewide offices. They also flipped the Texas House of Representatives.
Every county in Texas shifted left, voting more Democratic than two years ago when President Trump was on the ballot. Rural counties like Jefferson in the Piney Woods region of deep red East Texas, Lubbock just south of the Panhandle and Midland in the Permian Basin, known as the epicenter of Texas oil and gas, all moved to the left. So did suburban counties outside Houston and Dallas. Even big cities, already centers of Democratic power, saw further gains.
Democrats swept Texas last week! They even "flipped the Texas House of Representatives!"
That has been the standard story—and that story has largely been accurate. Today, though, we direct your attention to last week's races for the state's 38 congressional seats—the 38 seats Texas holds in the United States House of Representatives.
When it comes to those 38 congressional races, Democrats didn't sweep the state at all! Here are the basic facts about the way that part of the cookie crumbled:
Winners of Texas congressional races
Republicans: 24 seats
Democrats: 14 seats
Total vote, statewide, in Texas congressional races
Republican candidates: 4.59 million votes (46.9%)
Democratic candidates: 5.15 million votes (52.6%)
So it went! Even as they were sweeping the state, Democrats were winning only 14 of its 38 seats in the House.
(For a digest of the 38 races, you can just click here.)
Republican candidates won 24 of the 38 seats, despite receiving far fewer votes statewide than their Democratic counterparts. Presumably, gerrymandering played a key role in that outcome, though some other factors may have been involved.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep? Except for the "lovely" part, so are our sprawling nation's complex electoral procedures.
Also today, we'd planned to revisit the Nebraska Senate race, in which Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts held onto his seat by a bit less than six points.
For a reason we don't want to revisit, that race was just too disappointing. For today, we'll agree to be grateful for the widespread pushback which actually did occur.
ReplyDelete"Every county in Texas shifted left"
Dumbocrats are not left, by any stretch of imagination. Their pols serve global finance, the most right-wing force in the world. George Soros & Co.
...I suppose many rank&file Dumbocrats still believe their pols are lefties somehow. You know why? Because they are all retards, that's why.
Oh well...
"George Soros & Co."
DeleteWe've already pointed out to you that Musk gave more to the Republicans in 2026 than Soros gave to Dems in the past 3 election cycles combined.
So you can no longer plead ignorance. You're just stupid.
DeleteJust for the retarded residents of this blog:
- Soros represents global finance and hedge funds. In just one year he gave $18 billion to a Dumbocrat org. And
- Musk represents domestic American industries. He is a good guy, but unfortunately he spends on politics far less than Soros.
Comprende?
If you had told me two years ago, Mao would be perfectly fine with Elon Musk stealing our financial information and selling it to China, in exchange for keeping blacks and women down, I 'd have said, "Of course the shithead is fine with it. He's a typical Right-wing asshole, after all."
DeleteTo be clear, Musk spent more in the midterms than Soros has spent on elections in his entire life.
DeleteMusk and Soros are both foreign born, but there are striking differences: Soros supports Americans while fighting fascism; Musk supports himself and Nazis while harming Americans and he has converted the companies he bought into corporate welfare queens taking American tax dollars to produce snake oil and vaporware.
DeleteIt would be quite ironic, retard, if the guy working, in Budapest, for the actual Nazis for nearly 4 years was "fighting fascism".
Orban worked for more than 4 years with the Nazis and in promoting fascism, and he's been ousted at any rate, get a grip.
DeleteSpecial for trumptard to suck on:
Delete"After Topping 2024’s Donor List, Elon Musk Said He’d Do ‘A lot less.’ Since Then, He’s Given More Than George Soros Has Personally in his Lifetime" - Forbes magazine
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/6219083-midterm-rebuke-trump-gop/
Mao, it’s time for you to get a new schtick.
ReplyDeleteDoctor, heal thyself.
DeleteYou’re such a brave little Non, aren’t you?
DeleteTough guy DG, want to take it outside, you creampuff Hegseth wannabe?
DeleteYou’re just another hit-and-hide Nonny, aren’t you?
DeleteYes.
DeleteI have to admit: Your comment at 2:39 was pretty good. Maybe I should change my nym to Creampuff Hegseth Wannabe.
DeleteYes, you should.
DeleteGerrymandering obviously still works; rather, it has its own inertia. It won't happen immediately. Democrats did flip two house seats. However, another census is not too far off, and with that comes new re-districting. I hope Democrats are there for the long game. In my ways, state governments are more important. After all, another 6 seats that Democrats should've had in TX are not that important, given that they will have close to 260 seats in the house anyway.
ReplyDeleteSomerby ever hopeful this Return of the Dems is short lived and impotent.
DeleteAs the midterms sink in, Somerby is going more mask off.
Soon he’ll go pants off.
DeleteRepublicans lost California for good when Governor Wilson went too far pushing a Republican "Harass immigrants" bill.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope they lose Texas with their support of ICE.
Stay away from girls and young women.
ReplyDeleteTrump knew about the Nvidia guy having an affair with a Chinese spy a year ago yet did nothing about it. Trump continued to allow this compromised person access to some of our most sensitive secrets and dealings.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing Trump did was to sell his Nvidia stock.
This is obvious grounds for impeachment.
Trump is evil and a traitor.
Agreed. He and the crime family should have their illegally acquired insider traded profits frozen. In a just would he would go to jail.
DeleteBut this is not a just would.
DeleteSomerby trying to be a party pooper in the aftermath of historic Dem wins, is very on brand for this sad lost soul running a right wing vanity blog.
ReplyDeleteExplain, please, why a right-wing blog would be “grateful” for the election’s “widespread pushback” against Republicans?
DeleteThis has been explained a million times over, you pretending to not understand is not the flex you think it is.
DeleteWhat is a flex?
DeleteInteresting that a person can pretend not to understand something that makes no sense.
DeleteI’m wondering: How many gullible liberals out there have been saved from being seduced into being a rightwinger through the warnings of the Somerby Haters about his supposed affinity fraud scheme?
Delete4:18 - I’m sorry I stepped on your response. It was extremely well-crafted.
DeleteBig Dem win=BIG MAD SOMERBY.
ReplyDeleteTotally. That's why his post today was basically a celebratory rehash of the Dems' victory, highlighted by Somerby pointing out the unfairness of how Republicans have gerrymandered Texas.
DeleteYou nailed it!
Bob is subtle. You have to read with imagination.
DeleteHegseth is out as SecDef! To be replaced by Kid Rock!
ReplyDeletePsyche!