Democrats Seize House, Largest Pickup in 44 Years IS a fucking blue wave, fucking corporate media.

[Fred Sanders]

edit: do the fucking math and check the "history", Mr. Corporate Media Man because this is true and not only that, if not for Republican gerrymandering of Congressional Districts and the majority vote prevailed it would be a Blue Ocean forever. Why is that easy math never mentioned?

edit2: while I have your attention, you fucking ridiculous and even dangerously stupid on purpose corporate media, how about turning the mirror around and looking at yourselves during election time? The reflection you will see is a huge, massive, clear as day financial conflict of interest where NOT having a tight election means huge loss of profit. Ever hear a news story on THAT huge bit of news, do we? Even Fox News is exempt from criticism when there is free and easy sweet Citizen's United (the gift that keeps on giving) juiced cash to be yielded. No news coverage of all that? Puzzling, isn't it?

[BumRushDaShow]

1. That sums it up!

They purposely focused on people like McCaskill while ignoring Sinema and also ignoring where the seismic changes were happening.

The story of the state-wide races is still trickling out but it is significant, with over 300 state/legislative wins around the country.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Unbelievable, I only watched NBC election night and the corporate staff were almost giddy with

delight that we "underperformed" I think is the world repeated often by Chucky and friends, who seemed drunk by the way.

And now the Blue Wave has swamped all their fevered hopes? Well, Chucky and Friends will just put everything into the Wayback Time Machine Shredder and pretend they were not fools that night. But we all k ow different, do 't we?

Time to celebrate now, fuck the sad corporate media....and soon it will be time to work and rule and conquer the lies and evil.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. This is why I purposely did NOT turn on the TV at all election night

because I knew what they would do. When I saw the threads on DU start appearing bemoaning the election, I knew I made the right decision.

Part of the problem is this -

1.) The media had internalized the notion that a "wave" had to be equivalent to what happened to Democrats in 2010. This false comparison completely ignores or dismisses the rampant gerrymandering post-2010, which made it extremely difficult for Democrats to do what they did in this election.

2.) The media, despite acknowledging that Democrats had a difficult class of Senators to defend this year, instead chose to move the goal post of "wave" to include the Senate, regardless of the polling.

3.) The media only wanted to focus on the national elections, with some attention to a couple historic governorships, yet ignored that other states were transforming before our eyes.

[UniteFightBack]

2. Who's saying it's not a blue wave? That's all I'm hearing. nt

[UniteFightBack]

5. Well that's not very nice.

[Roy Rolling]

10. Blue Wave

That's the story now, the media was snake-bit and were hesitant to be over-enthusiastic on election night after a 2016 defeat. That was a week ago.

Media-bashing is "kill the messenger". If you dislike the opinions of a particular pundit, change the channel. I urge you to consider if your anger is at the media or at individuals who said something you didn't like on election night. Opinions are not news. The news media was rightfully reserved to remain neutral and not immediately declare "blue wave!"

Because it's obvious to anyone a week later it IS a blue wave, and that's the news reports. The only no-blue wave opinions remaining are on Fox News and the little broadcaster inside of Trump's head.

[UniteFightBack]

13. Yeah this reply needs to go to Fred Sanders instead of me...well done! nt

[AllyCat]

7. What is your issue?

With this post? Seems an unnecessary response.

[workinclasszero]

17. James Carville, Jake Tapper for example

[former9thward]

6. How is it the largest pickup in 44 years?

The change overs in 2010 and 1994 were far bigger.

[Calista241]

12. I agree with this. Yes, we gained the house, but it's one of the smallest pickup of seats

In the last 40 years by an opposing party in a new President’s midterm election.

I mostly blame gerrymandering for this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Won, again, by a Democratic woman the Republicons demonized. . . . nt

[PatSeg]

11. What an interesting election

It seems like every day we hear of another Democratic win. It is like spreading Christmas over two weeks!

[thbobby]

14. Blue Wave is a subjective and ill-defined term.

Getting caught up on this is useless. Democrats control The House of Representatives, made significant gains in local elections, and lost very few seats in The Senate where they had many more seats exposed. This is a huge win for Democrats, bottom line. I don't see the point of opining whether or not it is a Blue Wave. But, Pence and trump, it was a huge fucking Blue Wave.

[watoos]

15. I think it was a blue tsunami,

when one takes into account the gerrymandering, my district in Pa. is doomed to be red unless fairly redistricted. When one takes into account the voter suppression, the conflicts of interest in Georgia and Florida, the outright shenanigans(cheating) that went on and Democrats outvoted Republicans in the House by over 7 million votes. Let that figure sink in. Hillary won by 3 million votes but this election 7 million more people voted Democratic. We are going to flip in the high thirties, House seats.

I'm sorry but that is impressive and deserves a name, a sound bite, a talking point, something like blue wave.

[malaise]

16. +1,000

You know we shouldn't look for decency from folks who are greedy enough to advertise all that big pharma shit with side effects way worse than any possible relief or cure.

[Baltimike]

18. The conservative press has been at it under the guise of "liberal media" for a very long time

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this is a great post. Thank you for it

[watoos]

19. Bingo,

Having the press push right wing talking points is a huge advantage that is so much underestimated.

When I see cable news anchors like Charlie Pierce, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Thom Hartman, and Keith Olbermann and Dylan Ratigan come back then the station can call itself liberal.

C'mon Tom Steyer, spend your money on a real, liberal, cable news outlet.

[Baltimike]

20. It certainly obfuscates where the middle is when they claim the holy high ground

while standing on a stack of bullshit.

[Fionn MacCuill]

21. Coopted Media

Corporate media is not a public service. That died with I.F. Stone. But there are still legitimate news sources. They are not owned by GE or Rupert Murdoch. Democracy Now, Pacifica, In These Times and many more will give you some balance to corporate propaganda....