Good News Thread

Good News Thread

TL;DR - The Democrats not only won the house, but kicked out dozens of GOP incumbents, elected more woman, more women of various colors, more LGTBQ - so many firsts. Record amounts of money being raised by individual small donors, and the Democrats have moved to be materially more progressive and less "diet-conservatives". Trump is on the run, fired Sessions and is now looking at the pointy end of two years of miserable (for him) investigations.

Rules:

For this thread only - you must contribute only good news or positive comments. We can debate in other threads, we can wring hands in other threads, we can talk about the various ways the Democrats could screw this up or Trump do more evil - save all of that for other threads. (For this thread only, I will simply delete negative comments.)

The Democrats and people of sanity had a great day yesterday - let's take the time to savor the wins!

* Voter turnout has been historic with 114m vs 83m (2014) up 37%!

From Randall Terrell:

Just to point out, Dems won BOTH the House and Senate 2018 contests:

House:

Dems- ~48 Million votes and 230 seats

GOP- ~45 Million votes and 205 seats

Senate:

Dems- ~42 Million votes and 22 seats

GOP- ~32 Million votes and 13 seats

** Women are killing it! ***

* Two 29 year old women leaders set the record for youngest women to congress - ever. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Democratic Socialist.

* A Muslim congress woman - Rashida Tlaib of Michigan - first.

* Laura Kelly won the governorship of Kansas

* Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland - first Native American women elected to the House and Davids is openly gay

* Two latina congress women from Texas were elected: Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar! First time Texans have elected Latinas.

* Jennifer Wexton defeated the NRA in Virginia to claim a congress seat from the GOP

* Lauren Underwood a black woman ousted the GOP incumbent from a reliable red district

* A Gay governor - Jared Polis of Colorado - first!

* Beto raised $70m in the last quarter from small donors and has lifted many down-ticket Democrats into victories, and now Texas is objectively purple and in play for 2020.

* In Florida over 1m black Americans have regained their right to vote after paying their debt to society.

* After eight years, the Democrats have won back the House with a strong decently strong buffer of nearly 30 seats for majority control

* Trump insta-fired Sessions when he saw the Democrats take control of the House - how many different ways is he and his family guilty?

* We will finally get to see Trump's taxes and all the dirty financials of this crime family

What other good news bits do you guys have?

Originally posted on Facebook on November 07, 2018.