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The Speakership has been rumored to be a lock for Valerie Longhurst for months now.  Paul Baumbach is regarded as a possible alternative but a long shot.  Anyway, Pete is almost certainly out. I don't know much about the mechanics of it, so I'll leave that to El Som. Leftist podcaster and journalist RE Vanilla had an interesting and possibly revealing take on how a Speakership vote for Longhurst could come about with the progressive changes in the Dem caucus. 

Val is a politician. What if her potential ascent to Speaker depended upon, say, a new influx of progressive women Reps? And hypothetically Val knew her ability to lead the House and leapfrog Pete in leadership was orchestrated by a coalition that she’ll need to maintain that power? She could be expected to have a different agenda than she’s had, for example.

I said I wasn't going to make predictions, but I did.  And I was pretty fucking close. I said Burns was going to beat Ramone by 5 votes and was…

In accordance with tradition, the guy in the top hat pulled the Wild West Lawman out of his burrow.  Upon seeing his shadow the Wild West Lawman predicted another 4…

Fetterman never apologized. He never went into a defensive crouch and tried to answer Oz's bullshit about crime. He was just mocked the shit out of Oz, said "Let's go…

Kari Lake is ranting today: “The people of AZ are sick and tired of elections being run like we’re in some banana republic. I was running against a basement candidate.…

When voters said, "nah" and God the Father didn't show, Mastriano was banking on some last minute intervention by the Holy Spirit. Jesus had other plans. CAMP HILL, Pa. —…

The indispensable Jon Ralston: If Kelly hangs on in Arizona, which seems probable, the the Georgia runoff doesn’t affect control of the Senate. That’s doubly great news, as I can’t…

Whereas all the DC-based big dollar, big brained campaign consultants and Chris Coons would have you believe that the path forward is to adopt slightly less mean spirited versions of…

A breakdown of the mid-term vote by age and race reveals that white people between the age of 45 and 64 are the absolute worst. White people over the age of 64 are a close second, and white people 30-44 are not exactly superstars. And yes...It is more than a little embarrassing to be in the demographic cohort most dedicated to toxic MAGA nonsense.

Did anyone else hear the rabidly racist, white nationalist radio ad on WSTW yesterday? It was enclosed by two statements from the station that they didn't endorse the whites first, Democrats are all black lesbians out to castrate white men* message of the ad. *That's not a direct quote. I'm trying to get to the spirit of the ad.

I have worried about my triumphalism around the idea that DEGOP is basically defunct statewide and that "the Dem primary is the election." These worries continue to be unfounded. There is no statewide GOP in Delaware. Not a single Republican candidate collected more than 148,000 votes.

LEE MURPHY	Republican - REP				138,177	42.97 %

JULIANNE E. MURRAY	Republican - AG				147,353	46.17 %

JANICE LORRAH	Republican - Auditor				145,145	45.8 %

GREG COVERDALE	Republican - Treas				147,293	46.36 %

With no statewide races to really worry about Delaware Democrats need to do a better job leveraging that statewide dominance to win down ballot. That Ramone is still in the Legislature is a goddam disgrace.   Ignoring these races and allowing guys like Buckson to go unchallenged is a misuse of the party's dominance.

Ex-President Trump  hosted a sad election night party at his shitty "resort". The room full pool of reporters were on hand to document what Trump hoped would be a Republican…