This is obviously more than off year swings. There was record turnout, Virginia state legislator got dominated by democrats, and even local races in Georgia and Florida were won by democrats.

Positive media coverage can build the idea of momentum regardless of what’s in people’s hearts

11/5/2025 12:44:25 AM

Fair

I'm just trying to temper expectations. I'd hate for you to be super disappointed and wonder wtf went wrong next year.

11/5/2025 12:50:15 AM

^if Dems don't make heavy gains during midterm, it will be wildly disappointing regardless of yesterday

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"Trump just shutting up for a month or 2 before midterms "

Chances of that happening approach 0, he is incapable

11/5/2025 6:57:06 AM

I just wanted to clarify real quick that we are just happy Democrats won last night right? Like the candidates in Virginia arent actually good but "yay democrats" anyway.

11/5/2025 8:42:06 AM

I am always happy even a Manchin type wins if it's vs even a replacement level republican, much less the maga types. And the turnout and swings from 12 months ago were inspiring and make me a tad hopeful

11/5/2025 8:54:24 AM

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"Relax man being called an alias is not that serious. I think tgl is wrong but just ignore it."

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"I don't expect an apology. I don't expect him to ever admit he was wrong. I just want him to know he's a total piece of shit and that other people think so, too."

mission accomplished let's move on shall we

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"I feel like you have to ignore last November and 4 years ago to not feel excited by these results."

hey i'm not complaining about keeping republicans out of office, i'm just not convinced it's a sign that dems have done anything particularly right in these cases to earn the wins in a way that gives us anything at a national scale to learn from for future elections.

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"I just wanted to clarify real quick that we are just happy Democrats won last night right? Like the candidates in Virginia arent actually good but "yay democrats" anyway."

pretty much

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""CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*"

statewide victory in the south, eh? that's cool even if it's just a utility commission race

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"Two ballot measures to fund Colorado’s universal school meals program, the only statewide contests in the 2025 off-year election, were approved by voters Tuesday night, according to unofficial results."

love this. i'm all about universal, relatively low cost, common sense programs that directly benefit kids.

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"I prefer another post in defense of this:"

hey don't get me wrong i'm happy to see so many dem victories (except mamdani although zero of the options in that race were Good so fuck it let the DSA get their shot and we'll see how much damage they cause) i'm just saying the dems shouldn't act like they've got everything figured out now and they can just coast till 2028 on more and more anti-trump rhetoric.

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"It’s partially r/enlightenedcentrist cope"

"enlightenedcentrist cope" this kind of framing/rhetoric only exists to short circuit critical thinking and to give people permission to dismiss other points of view. don't do that to yourself.

and i'm a (left-leaning) moderate, not a centrist. in the Philippians 4:5 and 1 Corinthians 6:12 sense i mean. i will accept the accusation of being enlightened though

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"there’s truth that this momentum is coming from people hating trump rather than agreeing with democrats"

again i'm not sure the lesson from these wins is "people hate trump" i think y'all WANT that to be true so much so that you end up putting way way too much on trump as a factor.

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"If democrats don’t take this opportunity to make people actually like their viewpoints"

this is the key point. stop talking about trump and how evil republicans are all the god damn time and start talking about what can Dems do to EARN the support of voters.

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11/5/2025 8:59:34 AM