I hate this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FLyellowdog]

What is wrong with people?

This whole election is leaving me with some very scary feelings. And I'm simply sick...physically sick...and emotionally drained.

What a sad sad day for our country.

[Lifelong Protester]

1. I'm with you. It's also one reason I can't watch sports.

I get too into it. I don't know what's worse, a Republican "do-nothing" Congress, or having to live with a lot of folks thinking this is ok.

[DonCoquixote]

2. it is still tooclose to call

and we all know that the broward machines were moneklyed with. Crist will sue, and I hope to god it becomes the bloody, nasty fight that several elections should have been.

[TroyD]

22. Crist has conceded to Scott

Surprising, but that's what's happened.

[still_one]

3. Did you really think that red states that have voted for republicans for years were going to change

overnight?

[FLyellowdog]

11. Actually I thought people would vote

in their own best interests which usually means votes for Democrats if you're middle class. But apparently, they haven't.

I just hope they'll understand at some point what they've done to themselves. Maybe next time they'll use some logic.

[still_one]

17. They will eventually, but a lot of pain will most likely occur before that.

[elleng]

4. With you.

[PumpkinAle]

5. I am so with you FLyellowdog

I have had to listen to repubs gloat all day and I am so f'g sick of them.

And what's more most of these are people who have a good living thanks to a UNION. I really wish unions would say "hey, you don't pay, you don't get the raises we work for until several months down the road."

I just can't understand the "logic" that the repubs have for voting their rights away.

[BayouBengal07]

6. People are frustrated, misinformed, and fickle.

Frustrated about things they don't understand (the economic recovery, the ACA, ISIS, ebola, Russia); misinformed by the media (Fox News needs no explanation, but the MSM also refused to call out the GOP crazy the way they did a la the "legitimate rape" trend in 2012); and fickle about their politicians (turnover after six years because fuck it, I'm frustrated and projecting my frustrations on the president even though things aren't his fault but I assume the opposition can do better because I suffer from short term memory loss about what happened the last time Republicans were in power).

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. this. ^ ....it's so damn frustrating.

I hope we have good news in the morning.

[TroyD]

7. Looks good for Shaheen & Hagan

But not going well for Mark Warner so far.

Yes, he can still catch up, but it's getting worrisome.

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. Quite a few people right here on DU should be checking

The Joy of Cooking for crow recipes right about now....

[jimlup]

9. I agree I also feel sick tonight

At least we were able to hold the Senate in my state. Gary Peters projected to win over tea party Terri Lynn Land. We're losing the Governor's race to union busting Synder.

[Codeine]

10. Red states vote red.

This was a bad election cycle for us. We knew that going in, regardless of the happy noises some folks insist we make.

[longship]

12. Breathe! Take a breath. Relax. Have a drink, or two, or more.

It still isn't over. And things still aren't as bad as the doomsayers were predicting.

We will also likely do better in governors. But the Senate is not lost yet. We've lost only two at this point, and have held more than that, including NH and MI.

We are with you here.

[FLyellowdog]

13. Thank you. :)nt

[longship]

14. No worries, mate! nt

[FLyellowdog]

15. This makes me feel only slightly better.

"...in 2006 the Republicans suffered from Bush fatigue, losing 30 House and six Senate seats; in 1986 Republicans lost five House and eight Senate seats; in 1974, in the middle of the Watergate period, they lost 48 House and four Senate seats; and in 1958, when Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration was losing steam, they lost 48 House and 13 Senate seats. Democrats have been similarly unsuccessful in their sixth year in the White House, other than in 1998. In 1966, in the sixth year of the Kennedy-Johnson period they lost 48 House and three Senate seats. In 1950, the last midterm of Harry Truman’s nearly eight years in office, they lost 28 House and five Senate seats."

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/11/sometimes-a-midterm-election-is-just-a-midterm-election/#ixzz3I9rTcjlD

[mike dub]

18. Right with ya, FLyellowdog

Your post best sums up what I'm thinking/feeling tonight as well.
EOM

[TroyD]

19. Worse night than expected

The Democratic candidates for Senate are doing worse than we expected.

[Jamaal510]

20. I'm actually not too surprised.

In a nutshell, all these results mean is that we're going to have more of the same old same old for at least the next two years. Republicans might win control, but they still won't have enough votes to override a veto. But yeah, more gridlock...I just feel bad for the President to have to go through this, though. I truly believe he wants to help this country get out of the ditch, and he doesn't deserve to be cursed with this spiteful Republican Congress.

[FLyellowdog]

21. My heart is broken.

Maybe it's time to drop out of this insane political scene. I don't see how I can continue to expend so much of my energy trying to further the progressive agenda when there are so many others who are against it...I'm so tired.

It's very personal to me. I may have just voted in my last election.

[DonCoquixote]

23. dont

That is exactly what the GOP wants.

[davidpdx]

24. Yep

The only thing I can say is WE ARE FUCKED!

[Old Nick]

25. Our STUPID Country