"The red tsunami looks more like being a red trickle."
"It's too close to call."
"Democracy has been saved from the Republicans"
Yada yada yada
Mrs Walt told me it was going to be a long night. She was wrong. (Lifetime pct .004.) I was able to turn off the idiot's lantern before midnight, and enjoyed an untroubled sleep knowing that there will be weeks of wrangling before we arrive back at where we were two years ago, with a Congress just about evenly divided.
The difference this time... let us pray... is that the GOP may have enough seats to maintain control of the House of Representatives, if the Speaker and other House leaders can keep them together, which will be like herding cats. [No more clichés, please! Ed.]
As I write, awaiting the crack of dawn (after which I will seal up the crack and go back to bed), it looks like the Senate could be split 50-50, as before. That means a potential deadlock on almost every contentious issue. That can't be good for America.
My analysis of how all this came to pass will have to wait until the waters are a little less muddy.
Further reading: "Five early takeaways from the midterms", by Niall Stanage, on The Hill, 9/11/22. Discouraging, but looks pretty accurate to me.
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