Delaware Liberal

in Tuesday's election results.  Let's get a big long list. Maybe we'll feel a little better.  I'll start: 1. Jack Markell won't be Secretary of Education. 2. There will be…

Thank you. Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all…

I'm already seeing some revisionist history about what this Trump win means. It is hard to fathom because Trump didn't run on some secret agenda. He was right out in the open. These are the things he ran on, and the things Trump voters voted for: 1) Build a wall with Mexico (invoice them) 2) Overturn Obamacare 3) Overturn the constitutional right to gay marriage 4) Ban Muslim travel to the U.S. until we know "what's going on" 5) Jail Hillary 6) Stop and frisk blacks 7) Strip first amendment protections from the press 8) "Bomb the shit out of" ISIS 9) Enact extreme abortion restrictions 10) Be unpredictable with nuclear weapons 11) Soft pull out of NATO And for what it is worth, I believe he can do all of these things. He has been underestimated all along and has always prevailed, so his track record points to his getting these things if he still wants them once he is sworn in.

As expected Carney (58.34%), Hall-Long (59.44%), Blunt-Rochester (55.52%), and Navarro (59.28%) swept effortlessly into office. Nobody cracked 60%, but neither did they break a sweat. With the national outcome, I…

I'm sure there will be a great deal of analysis around the question of what went wrong. Errors will be discussed. This or that group will be questioned. Villains will be identified. The staggering sums of money spent on negative ads in the Philadelphia media market will be traced back to the "Citizens United" decision. There will be, in short, a lot of forensics. For me, it comes down to Democrats not having a clear sense of who we are as a party, and why voters should vote for us. We've fallen into identifying ourselves, not as what we are, but as what we aren't. Democrats aren't racists. We aren't homophobes. We aren't religious bigots or xenophobic. We aren't misogynists. Those are all good things to not be, but we also aren't... good at politics. We haven't knitted those identifiers into a compelling case for Democratic governance. I'm old enough to remember when it was widely known and accepted that being a Democrat meant being on the side of the little guy. We've lost that brand identity. This election we ceded that ground to a wealthy charlatan. A one-dimensional cartoon version of a rich guy. I suppose the silver lining is that we can't fall lower than this. After the forensics will come the rebuilding. Eventually, I'll listen to the acceptance speeches of John Carney, and the other Delaware Democrats who won last night. I'll be searching to find some foundation for the rebuilding. Some acknowledgment that being a Democrat means being on the side of the little guy.

Farmland along Ashland Clinton School Road in Ashland.

So I voted. Guess who for? LOL. So what are you seeing and hearing out there today. Use this thread to report your voting experiences. And report any problems you encounter out there, whether they be with poll workers, machines, or Trump supporters trying to intimidate voters.

Fall colors are showing along Upper Pike Creek Road in Pike Creek.

The Democrats are not in jeopardy of losing the House. In fact, I predict they will pick up two seats, the 9th RD with Monique Johns in Jason330's Upset Special, and Bradley Connor in the 41st RD. That would give the Dems 27 seats again, and the Republicans will have 14 seats. As for the Senate...

...will that mean that she has been acquitted in the court of popular opinion, and Republicans will call off their Jihad against her? And having called off their Jihad, ...will that mean she will be free to "govern toward the center" and continue the consensus seeking/New Democrats/DLC/Third Way course charted by Bill Clinton and attempted by Obama? Those rhetorical questions are easy to answer.

A Latino blue wave sweeps Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and Texas, though not quite enough yet to turn the Lone Star state blue. Texas will be a two to three point race, and a swing state from here on out. Hillary Clinton's ground operation wins North Carolina and Ohio, but is not quite enough to turn Iowa blue, probably because the state has just been trending extremely red since 2012. It is also the whitest state in the nation. There will be no congressional district splits in Maine or Nebraska, after all the attention placed on both. The final popular vote margin will be Hillary 51, Trump 43, Other 6. Dems will come very close to winning the House because of the blue Latino wave. They will win unexpected seats in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, California, Texas and Florida because of it. I am just not sure they will win enough to take the majority. Either way, Paul Ryan will have an ungovernable majority of maybe 5 seats. Dems will take the majority in the Senate after winning Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Florida, Missouri, Nevada and Arizona. That's a net pick up of 9 seats, for a 54-46 majority. In Delaware, no surprises on the Statewides: Carney, Blunt Rochester, Hall Long, Navarro all win. Meyer wins in New Castle County.