Someplace tonight, one Republican Senator turned to another Republican Senator and said, "Well, we've got good news and bad news. The good news is that Ted Cruz is being returned to the Senate. The bad news is that Ted Cruz is being returned to the Senate."
Results have been coming in earlier than I expected and, so far, being contested less than I expected. I'm happy Democrats have taken back the House. I'm unhappy that the lesson many will take away from certain races is that Trump-style campaigning — smearing your opponents, blatant lying and stoking racial fears — can work.
It's closing in on Midnight here in California and there are still people standing in lines here and there waiting to vote. Vote by mail, people! Vote by mail!
I think this country is better off today than it was yesterday if only because Trump won't have both halves of Congress rubber-stamping his whims and unlikely to hold him accountable for high crimes and low. Yeah, it could have been better but think how much worse it would have been if the House had gone the other way. And though Trump will surely hail today as a big win for him — because he says that about everything — he can't get rid of the Mueller investigation now or bury its findings. That could be, as he says, yuge.