We won 40 seats. Trump wins!!!

[Kingofalldems]

James Carville, know nothing.

Link to tweet

[bearsfootball516]

1. 40 seats, and still counting too!

[cilla4progress]

2. Wow -

it was 40!

Now, if they are just smart enough to keep Nancy at the helm - at least for now!!!

[Miles Archer]

3. I dismissed Carville's remarks as soon as I read them.

I dunno...Carville may still be a major player on the "big stage," but not for me.

I think part of the problem is that he probably bases his predictions on what has happened in the past, and this is all brand new. There's never been a Trump in the Oval Office, and the groundswell of resistance to him has never existed, either. Charts and graphs are great. Their value was extremely limited this time around.

[DownriverDem]

20. Why dump on James?

Other folks said it wasn't a wave. Sorry I just don't get how folks dump on him, because he was wrong. We don't do purity and never have.

[Tarc]

22. Because post-Clinton, Carville has dabbled with the right

Joining Fox News, and occasionally espousing the "both sides are wrong" tribble.

[libdem4life]

32. Also "spousing" a Republican operative...Matalin. n/t

[elleng]

29. Many people just can't help it,

tho neither do I get how folks can dump on others who may be wrong. I've avoided making a list of those DUers have dumped on.

[Azathoth]

4. Florida and Indiana had me down early on election night too

This has to have been the slowest moving tsunami on record

[BamaRefugee]

21. More like BLUE QUICKSAND, but I love watching the Republicans getting sucked under!!!

[VMA131Marine]

28. It's slow, but inexorable!

[Eric J in MN]

5. What counts is net seats.

In MN, Republicans flipped two seats and Democrats flipped two seats for a net gain of zero.

If we flipped 40 seats nationally then that is 38 or less net.

Did any Democratic US House seats outside of MN go Republican?

[brush]

8. Huh? 40 seats is 40 seats. Why would think the Minn. races weren't factored in?

[Eric J in MN]

13. The tweet says '40 seats flipped from RedToBlue.'

If there were 3 US House seats flipped from BlueToRed that means we netted 37.

[brush]

16. Check your math. They know how not to count reverse flips that amount to a wash.

[Eric J in MN]

18. Maybe the tweet is misphrased, but if so, the problem isn't with my math. NT

NT

[unc70]

9. Believe GOP flipped three seats

The third one might have been in PA where the redistricting mixed things around. So that was more like a retention but with a different district number.

Not sure about the count now.

[Eric J in MN]

11. Thanks. So 2 of 3 US House seats flipped

...by Republicans were in MN.

[gratuitous]

6. Well, that clinches it

Pelosi just has to go. 40 seats flipped? Why should congressional Democrats reward the caucus leader for that?

The above hot take coming soon from a nincompoop posting to a website near you.

[malaise]

7. Blue tsunami

Most excellent.

Now is it fake news if M$Greedia reports that Dems flipped 40 seats?

[Rene]

10. anti pelosi talking is from jerk trolls. Nancy rules

We should have flipped Senate seats though

[ooky]

12. That is some great work by a lot of hard working people to make that

come together.

I'm stoked!

[Kingofalldems]

19. Me too.

[Wintryjade]

14. 40 flipped. Blue wave. And ya, late evening Democrats were being dumped on as failures.

got a bet disheartening for a while there until momentum started picking up as it moved across the nation.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Also, A Lot Of The Doom Merchants Are Ignoring. . .

. . .6 governor seats and about 300 state legislative seats flipping.

Maybe not a tsunami, but definitely a wave, and in a good way.

[Scurrilous]

17. K&R

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. But, Trump made gains in his Senate, so he owns the Judicial branch.

All the empty judicial seats are his, for the next two years.

[former9thward]

24. Democrats have won 35 seats as of 11/15/ pm.

6 remain uncalled. The twitter user in the OP is counting seats the media has not called.

[BadgerMom]

25. We flipped so many GERRYMANDERED seats!

Now I rarely hear how hard overcoming the Republican gerrymanders would be. Yet, since 2010, the obstacle gerrymandering presents has been used to explain all the votes in which more voters vote for Democrats, but more Republicans are elected.

Our win last week was massive. America’s repudiation of Trump was massive. The hard work of phone banking, canvassing, writing postcards and texts paid off. Democrats deserve to be celebrated.

I’m so glad voting rights and elections are the first things we will tackle come January. That’s spot on.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

26. Well DONE everybody!!! Good Job ALLLL around!!! THIS is what DEMOCRACY looks like!

[In It to Win It]

27. Thank You President Trump!

[0rganism]

30. so much winning your head will spin

oh please, Mr. Trump, make the winning stop

[OhZone]

31. I'm not tired of winning yet! ha