2026 Election Post Mortem, Part 3. Changes, accusations, resignations and developments.

November 6, 2026

We've put our two immediate 2026 Election Post Mortems, but we'll need a trailing thread as there's going to be a boatload of things coming.

One thing that already has come is new voters entered the voting scene in spades.  The tyranny of the Boomers at the polls has ended.  The youngest voters in this election were born in 2007 and they are pissed off.  They don't admire their great grandparents in the Boomer generation (or in many cases, their great great grandparents) and they don't think the Boomers saved the world for civilization. They think the Boomers destroyed things for them.

They have good reason to think that. 

For that reason, renewed dire warnings from politicians like Ron Johnson that "the Commies" are coming don't mean anything to them. Socialism?  They aren't afraid of it.

For that reason, look for an early effort to bring in Medicaid for all.  The Republican demographic already on Medicaid will oppose it.

The country is getting national healthcare.  If not in 2027, then in 2029.

But we're seeing the revival of conservative Democrats, which actually isn't inconsistent with what we've noted above. The incoming Democratic 120th Congress will have 22 members in the Blue Dog Caucus.  

Blue Dog Democrats, conservatives, were considered dead and buried in the pet cemetery.  The festering stench of the dying and dead GOP caused, however, a revival.  As already noted, the incoming 120th Congress has a couple of real red blooded Americans in it, so to speak.

Democratic Congressman from Montana, Sam Forstag, a smoke jumper.  By Conorhogan16 - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=194696290

Our neighbor to the North, Montana, is sending a Democratic smoke jumper to Congress, whereas we're sending a man who couldn't even muster up the traditional photo on a horse propaganda.  Alaska is sending a woman who was a commercial fisherman to the Senate whereas we're sending a woman who just likes to sound like an old harpie.  The darling of the far right in the election, Becky Bextel, spent he first part of her campaign bragging about the size of her presumably imaginary testicals.

Alaska Senator, Mary Peltola.

Geez louise, we've become a bunch of candy ass wimps.

Add to that a logger who booted out Susan Collins in Maine.

Also add to that a collection of senior military officers including Eileen Laubacher, who replaced Lauren Boebert.

Eileen Laubacher

Boebert's departure, and that of Tommy Tuberville, raises the intelligence level of Congress in one fell swoop, although Tuberville was inexplicably elected Governor of Alabama, which doesn't speak very well of Alabama.

The fact of the matter is that Wyoming now has a real cadre of wimps and oddballs in D.C.  John Barrasso rose all the way to Majority Whip.  My guess his days of being useful to the GOP are over.  He won't run again, and he shouldn't.  He's as old as dirt now.  Hageman is just going to be malignant, a bit of her specialty.  Chuck, well who knows.  He probably hoped that his beloved, Donald Trump, would pick him for something.

Anyhow:

Wyoming Republicans strike defiant tone as Democratic sweep of Congress ushers in a new era

The blame game is going on in the GOP right now, which is interesting.  No singular blame has been decided on, but some Republicans are speaking the truth. Trump killed his party.  It's all Trump's fault, and that of the ideologues and sycophants surrounding him.

A couple of people surrounding him have begun to run away from him.  J. D. Vance immediately blamed the defeat on the war against Iran which he was always against. That implicitly suggest that Trump listened to dumb ass advice  and the dumb ass is Pete Hegseth.  As of this morning, it looks like Marco Rubio, who like Vance was just riding in the wagon to get through the country and hopefully into the Oval Office, is getting ready to bolt.

Senior Justice Department official Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office, and oversaw investigations into universities, voter rolls and alleged violations of religious freedom, bolted.

That's interesting.  She surely has a reason to be doing so.

Rumors have it that Pete Hegseth is going to get fired.  If that's the case, it has to happen soon as once the 120th Congress is seated, no new Secretary of Defense, and that's what it will be, not Secretary of War, will be confirmed.

One thing we're seeing big time now is Donald Trump's mental decline.  As we noted yesterday:

November 5, 2026.

Donald Trump is fading fast.Frankly, he's becoming a child and is playing with his binkies.  

Yesterday he went to his sandbox, the ballroom, and babbled.  The event was putting up the last steel beam on what is admittedly a massively built structure.  The amount of steel going into this, and reinforced concrete (I'll wager it's' badly done, given the time involved) is massive. Workers signed the beam, forever memorializing their descent into fascism for all time. They'll always be remembered as fascist stooges.  Trump signed it too, thereby putting his signature on a temporary government structure in addition to pubic hair representations for Jeffrey Epstein.  

How charming.

Today he tried to make the gilded shit, which is a kind description, at the White House some sort of national memorial.

It won't work.  A stroke of the pen will erase it, just like it did Federal land designations in Utah.  

The White House designation will fail.

It's really hard for people to waste anything that's been built, and that's the challenge with the ballroom. Trump knows that. And in spite of all the soft headed Democrats who just say "rename it", no renaming will do what needs to be done.  The next administration needs to obliterate it.

And rapidly.

It needs to come down so fast that if it destroys things near it, including the White House, so be it.

And, for goodness sakes, invoke the 25th Amendment.  

We're likely to see more and more of this.  People like Paula White and Franklin Graham aside, Trump has no real concept of religion and probably figures that any immortality he can obtain has to be in stone.  He's desperate to be remembered.  He'll become more and more fixated on this.

Indeed, fwiw, I've noticed this in older people who lack a concept of the existential.  Some physical thing, or a business, becomes their "legacy".

Trump, deep down, know that his legacy is a vile one.  Everything associated with this administration, including the ballroom and the arch, if its built, and the gilded crap will be tossed out like the trash of an all night party on Epstein Island, and smell just as bad. . .a and weird.  He can't accept that.

He'll get worse.

cont:

Ted, who of course is from Texas which saw a major Democratic insurgency:

I will say to every elected Republican: We need to listen to what the voters' said, listen to their frustration, and be working to lower gas prices, food prices, interest rates. Help people succeed and provide for their families.

Ted Cruz.

Cruz showed signs of breaking away the last several months.  Now he's openly doing so.  He's also campaigning for 2028.

In Colorado, Boebert's campaign claims they are investigating "unusual voting patterns".

You have to admit that, by definition, voting for Boebert demonstrates an unusual voting pattern.  The pattern would be profound idiocy. They need to find them so they can get help, or relocate to Tommy Tuberville's house.

cont:

Over the past few days I've received an exposure to the MAGA mindset, some from people I know very well, and then one from somebody I don't.

One very well educated person I know, but who has an exceedingly narrow focus on things, is now all verklempt about socialism.  I.e., he's convinced the Democrats are going to Karl Marx up everything.

That's flat out absurd.

One of the interesting things about that sort of view is that the same people are so blind to how National Socialist, i.e., Nazi the Republican Party had become under Trump.  People are so focused on the racial evil the Nazis espoused (and MAGAs get into that territory themselves) that they don't realize that the Nazis had an economic theory the endorsed, autarky.  

The Trump regime has really combined autarky with state capitalism, economic theories that don't work, and theories associated with fascism.

Anyhow, some people apparently seriously believe that there will a Gastronom coming to your neighborhood soon. That's freakin' absurd.

Another set of people I know very well are now all concerned they need to buy gold to hedge against a Democratic caused economic collapse.  The funny thing about this is that I knew other people buying gold to hedge against a Republican caused economic collapse.  During COVID I knew people who were buying gold to hedge against a COVID caused economic collapse.

Gold's nifty.  Buy it if you want, but there's not going to be an economic collapse no matter how much people enjoy dreaming of one.

Another person talked to me in a panic after the election.  Funny thing there is that its a case of somebody assuming that I have the same political views as they do. 

I'm often amazed by that.  It's based, I think, on being a semi rural person and a Wyoming native.  That must mean, they figure, that I think the same thing they do, if we're both in Wyoming.

As an aside here, I'll note that I've been accused of TDS here before.  I don't worry much about it as Trump is demonstrably demented, and everybody know it at this point.  But where TDS may be asserted about me for sure in the ballroom.

It has to come down as soon as possible.

It's a really strong human instinct not to waste things.  That's why people save piles of crap.  It's why old people begin to hoard thing.  And it's why there are all sort of proposals now to "well, we can rename. . ."

You can rename the Trump ballroom to whatever you want, but it'll be the Trump ballroom forever.  Far better that it be a memory than an existing fascist monument.

Removing monuments is demonstrably difficult.  The aged Confederates and their children put up monuments to their racist rebellion all over the place in the 1910s, and a lot of them are still up.  Madrid decided to quietly start taking down Francoist monuments in 2016 and people who hated Franco were upset about it.  And big buildings are another thing yet.  Occasionally some old big building is the topic of removal and "Save the old big ugly building" will get rolling as a movement.

And this thing is expensive.  It'll be expensive to remove it.

Spare no expense and blow the sucker to the ground is my demand to the next President.  That's a fitting official memorial to Trump.

For that matter, and this is extreme, I'd look at filing suit against every company involved with this project.  It's illegal.  They know its illegal.  It's a largescale act of vandalism, and as they're damaging things, they should be sued.

The ballroom has really become Trump's binkie.  It's pathetic.  He stated yesterday that it will be "the best in the world".

Nobody in the US gives a rusty rat's ass about ballrooms anymore.  The MAGAs who say "we need it" have probably never been in one.  If Trump claimed that he need a giant latrine on the grounds, they'd say "we need it".

Also, fwiw, I don't think that the next administration should wait for anyone to approve taking it down.  It went up illegally, and therefore is an illegal structure.  The way demolition typically works for a large structure is such that it can be removed before anyone says anything about it.

Cont:

Josef Goebbels, um Stephen Miller, is replacing Susie Wiles as White House Chief of Staff.  Wiles position has been on the line for awhile, but this is a seriously moronic move.  Miller is potentially the only political figure on the planet hated more than Trump.

That's a signal that Trump is going to double down on delusion.

John Eisenberg, who headed the DOJ's National Security Division, and Jason Reding Quiñones, who pursued probes into the past criminal investigations of Trump, have resigned.  The DOJ is clearing out.

November 3, 2026

An absolutely laughable op ed in the Cowboy State Daily, posted on election day, but before the election results:

Guest Column: I Am Ready To Take Wyoming’s Fight From The House Floor To the Senate

Hageman goes into the Senate as a freshman Senator and will receive an assignment to the toilet bowl committee.  She's not going to achieve squat for at least four years.

She also posted this screed somewhere on social media:

The people of Wyoming have hired me to do a new job. I am grateful, and I will not let you down. 

Four years ago, you gave me the honor and responsibility that go with serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have worked hard every day to defend your Constitutional rights and look out for your interests in every way possible. I will now move across the Capitol to the Senate, where I will again put my shoulder to the wheel and be the champion Wyoming wants in Washington, D.C.

We are about to engage in a battle for the future of this nation, and as we all recognize, the looming fight with the left is about much more than just policy differences. It’s about the very survival of this country as it has been and as we know it. Are we a capitalist nation, or will we slide precipitously into communism? The left hates our founding principles of freedom, just as they hate our strength and prosperity. A strong United States of America embarrasses them, so they aim to tear it all down. And I aim to stand in their way.

We must keep taxes low, prioritize defending property rights, and produce as much domestic energy as we can. We must protect our borders and enforce immigration laws for those already inside the country. We must aggressively defend freedom and capitalism, or the rabid left and their weak dupes in the Democratic Party will usher in soul-crushing communism.

Wyoming has a great deal at stake in the coming years as we know the forces of the left will stop at nothing to prevent us from safely accessing our own natural resources. Wyoming leads the nation in coal production, has the most uranium reserves, and is prominent in oil and natural gas as well. We must defend America’s energy independence and block all efforts to punish the lawful production of domestic energy. Not only does our economy depend on it, so does the very existence of the United States of America.

As always, I am grateful to President Trump for his continued support. I thank our two current U.S. Senators, Sen. John Barrasso and Sen. Cynthia Lummis, whose retirement was the only reason I decided to run for this seat. And, most of all, I thank the people of Wyoming. 

I can’t wait to join the Republicans in the Senate in January to fight these battles ahead.

This puts Hageman back into the liar category.  The Democrats are not communists and she knows it.

What she might not know is that capitalism is not part of the American political and economic heritage.  It was heavily disfavored in the early republic and should be now, with true free markets being favored.

An increasingly interesting aspect of the last election:

Every Wyoming County Shifted Blue Tuesday, But None More Than Sweetwater

cont:

I should probably make it a seperate thread, but the meaning of Stephen Miller being appointed Chief of Staff cannot be underestimated.

Democrats don't have six weeks to come up with a plan to address Trump.  And Republicans who wish to save themselves better do it right now.

A couple of views, but which I think miss what's about to occur.

Führerbunker time

Stephen Miller Will Drag the GOP Further Into the Electoral Abyss

We don't know what happened in the White House in the immediate aftermath of the election.  Trump seemed at first to accept it, and he hasn't said that he hasn't.  Susie Wiles was let go very quickly however.  We know that there's some discussion of letting Hegseth go, and we know that Hegseth is going to be impeached come the 120th Congress.

But we're not in the 120th Congress.  The 119th is still in session.

Trump is obsessed with his legacy and fears it'll be torn down.  And for good reason, it will be.  Come the next two years, and the advance of old age and dementia will contract that two years, Trump will try to rule through executive order and ignoring the law.  The bloom is coming off that rose, however.  The Democrats know they can't let him do that and will do everything they can, much of it in the courts, to keep that from happen.  

What Trump really has is the next six weeks.

In the next six weeks Trump is going to do everything possible to cement a far right legacy that he himself probably doesn't believe in, but which has become, in his narrow minded way of thinking, the only legacy he has.  A more intelligent person would try to be like Truman, and turn a mid term defeat into a sort of victory by adjusting to the circumstances.  

He's not that smart.

And he doesn't have that much time either.

There are persistent rumors about his health, and his mind is clearly going. 

The first effort along these lines was are on his binkies, the ballroom and the gilded crap in the Oval Office.  Trump can't believe that anyone following him would tear the ballroom down (which is exactly why it needs to be).  This is why, the day after the election, he's out signing the binkie. After he's dead, he thinks, people will look at the binkie and love him.  Indeed, his declining number of fans keep repeating the "it'll be there for future presidents" line.

No, it won't.  Trump has made it so it cannot be.

Same with the gold crap.  Trump signed an order which he believes will preserve it for the future in its current form.

That didn't work for Grand Staircase Escalante, did it?

These are minor things, as they're easy to reverse.  What's coming in the next six weeks won't be.

It should be clear that Trump is, at this point, Miller's vehicle as much as Miller is Trump's.  Miller has a far right wing agenda.  Of all the people in the administration, he is by far the most fascist.  All evidence is that he's a genuine fascist as well, not one of convenience.

Over the next six weeks we're going to see a hardcore push on the wackiest of Trump ideas.  New tariffs will come in.  Real hostility will develop on foreign nations.   The US will sell Ukraine down the river.  We might invade Cuba.

Why?

Because there's only six weeks to do it and this is what the far right in Trump's orbit wants.  If we betray Ukraine, that'll be hard to fix.  If we invade Cuba, we're in a war in Cuba. If we impose new tariffs it will take weeks to unring that bell.

It's their last chance.

November 8, 2026

President Trump has offered the job of Press Secretary to Dana Frederick White Jr., the president and chief executive officer of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.  Figures, it helps toss a bone to the White Trash in MAGA.

November 9, 2026

For those interested:

60 Minutes Transcript: Donald Trump, the 2026 post-midterm elections interview

I read it.  Can't say it was worth doing.

Richard Walters, deputy chief of of staff, is leaving.

cont:

More resignations at the US Attorney's office.  Attorney General Brett Shumate and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg.  These come as its increasingly obvious that Todd Blanche is likely to be impeached.

cont: 

Thomas Massie has introduced a resolution to impeach Hegseth.

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2026 Election Post Mortem, Part I. What happened and what happens next.

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2026 Election Post Mortem, Part 2. The Sargasso Sea for Wyoming.

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Tuesday, November 9, 1976. Smokey Bear dies.

 The Forest Service mascot Smokey Bear died at age 26.

The Smokey Bear campaign to combat forest fires had started in 1944, but in 1950 it was brought into living form with the rescue of a five-pound, three-month-old American black bear cub who was found in the spring of 1950 after the Capitan Gap, New Mexico, fire.  He lived in the National Zoo.

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Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Jimmy Carter wins the Presidential Election, Malcolm Wallop wins the Senatorial contest in Wyoming, and Teno Roncalio is reelected.

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Saturday, November 9, 1946. First flight of the Lockheed R6V Constitution and the Game of the Century.

The Aerodrome: Saturday, November 9, 1946. First flight of the Lo...:   

Saturday, November 9, 1946. First flight of the Lockheed R6V Constitution.

 

Only two of the super sized transports were built, both of which served with the Navy.  They were retired as too expensive to operate in 1953.

Notre Dame played Army in football in a game that's been dubbed the "Game of the Century".  The game ended in a scoreless tie, which is no longer possible.

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Friday, November 8, 1946. Desmond's arrest launches a civil rights movement.

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Tuesday, November 9, 1926. Queen Marie visits Casper.

Today In Wyoming's History: November 9:  1926  Queen Marie of Romania visited Casper.

The Queen's trip was part of her trip to Canada and the United States of that year.  The trip was very wide ranging and covered a huge number of stops.  The stop in Casper was specifically made in order that she might see the facilities belonging to Standard Oil.  Standard Oil was a major economic player in Romania, where the refineries at Polesti existed, and where the company had significant oil production.  This was later to figure significantly in World War Two.

Perhaps emblematic of royalty of the period, which was rapidly becoming an anachronism, the queen was not Romanian by birth. Her father was one of the sons of Queen Victoria and her mother a Russian princess.  In truth, royalty of this period was nearly stateless in origin.  As was also somewhat typical of this period, she worked hard to make a Romanian presentation and dressed in a stylized Romanian fashion.

She would have been queen of England had her mother approved of the English royal family, which she did not, as the Prince of Wales, who would be come King George V of England proposed marriage to her, in spite of her being his first cousin.  The fathers of the prospective union approved, but the mothers did not.  She instead married Prince Ferdinand of Romania, whom ultimately she came to dislike.  Showing, perhaps, the much smaller extent of media attention to such matters at the time, it's believed that she actually gave birth to a child in 1897 due to an affair, in addition to the six other children she bore in the royal household.  That child disappeared soon after birth, and the pregnancy itself was basically kept secret.  The whereabouts of that infant member of the Romanian royal family are unknown, and the child may have been stillborn.   The paternity of three of the other six children of the royal household is disputed.  Her husband, the King, would die the year after this 1926 visit and she would die in 1938, when Romania was still a kingdom.  The monarchy fell early in World War Two to a fascistic dictatorship.

To add, the monarchy did not cease to exist until after World War Two, but it lost its real powers.  None the less King Michael I  lead a late warcoup against the fascist government, causing Romania to become a very late war Allied power after it had been an Axis one.

I have to admit that the Romanian queen visiting Casper makes almost no sense to me.

All 123 members of the Italian opposition lost their seats in parliament and warrants were issued for their arrest.

A tornado hit La Plata, Maryland, killing 17, including 13 students at the elementary school.

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Wednesday, November 3, 1926. Annie Oakley passes.

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Thursday, November 9, 1911. 11-9-11.

The day was the first, and only, time a November palindrome day occurred in the 20th Century.

Kwangtung Province seceded from China as the National Assembly at Canton (now Guangzhou) proclaimed a republic.

Sultan Abdelhafid of Morocco announced that he would consent to the conditions of the Franco-German peace treaty making Morocco a French protectorate.

President Taft dedicated a memorial to the replica of Abraham Lincoln's childhood log cabin in Kentucky.

Howard Pyle,"the father of American magazine illustration" died at age 76.

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Wednesday, November 8, 1911. Stop gambling. Progressives take 1911 Election.

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The 2026 Election. 28th Edition. The Count (before the coup).

Counting Mayfield, Hill County Texas, ballots, 2/20/24.

November 3, 2026.  0000.

And so the fateful day has arrived.

Election Day, November 3, 2026.

And a fateful day it will be.  The election of 2026 is the most important election since that one held on November 3, 1860.  By the end of the day, if predictions hold, it will have taken a step back from fascism. The question will be how big of step back it will be, how much of a step in a new direction, and whether the step is so decisive that a major GOP/Fascist coup attempt can be averted.

I have my doubts.

What seems certain, if early predictions are correct, are that the Democrats, as disliked as they seem to be, will regain the House of Representatives.  Polling seems to suggest that there may be a "blue wave" that swamps the GOP in the House.  If that's correct, the House may have taken a major Democratic Party turn and a turn back towards real democracy.  It seems likely that the Senate may be taken by the Democrats, but it's not likely that it'll be a "wave".  But it's not impossible either.  It'll take both to really arrest a Trump coup attempt, and it will take both to really being to turn the arch of history back towards democracy.

Another question is to what degree Wyoming participates in this.  Wyoming is so ignored in the overall polls that, going into this day, we really don't know.

People who are of the betting persuasion would have placed their bets on Chuck Gray and Harriet Hageman right after the primary. But bets on Gray are much less certain now.  Gray is widely despised and rightly so.  The best thing that could happen to him, and for him, and for the state, would be to send him packing.  He needs to become a real boy and get a real job.  Lisa Kinney might be the person who symbolically does that for him, and to him, although if that's the case, she'll be a one term Congressman, elected solely to put an end in a carpetbagger's career, which would be a service to the state in and of itself.

A much better candidate, all the way around, is James Byrd.  Byrd's chances of defeating Harriet Hageman are not as good as Kinney's are of defeating Gray, but they are real.  

Otherwise, the big question is whether gadfly Rebecca Bextel of the "Constitution" Party, and Shawn Johnson of the Libertarian Party, draw enough votes to qualify both of those parties as "major" parties.

Bextel, who is engaged in a hopelessly naive campaign against Eric Barlow for the Governor's seat, comes across as a potty mouth, ignorant, Southerner, but there are right now enough potty mouth, ignorant carpetbaggers to perhaps give her 10% of the vote.  It's ironic in that the Constitution Party candidate for the House isn't a Southerner or ignorant, but the Constitution Party is smart enough to mount up a Southern Mule when they see one, if it profits them. Their beliefs are genuinely wacky, and Bextel pegs out on the wacky meter, and the Wyoming Freedom Caucus is the Woodstock of wacky, so she is likely to draw at least 10%.

My guess is that Shawn Johnson will as well.  Wyoming Libertarians aren't real Libertarians, so some disaffected Republicans can in fact feel comfortable voting for them.  Some Anybody But Chuck Republicans' who can't stomach voting for a Democrat will vote for Johnson instead.

Overall, if this election broke the back of the two party system, which is unlikely, in Wyoming, it would be a good thing. The batshit crazy wing of the GOP should be in the Constitution Party.  The flirting with anarchy wing of the GOP should be Libertarians.  Would that we had an American Solidarity Party that was viable here.  The Two Party System is moronic.

And, due to its failure, we have Donald Trump as President.

The next two years will not be easy. The best thing that could happen for the republic today is that there was such a blue wave that Trump could, and would, be impeached.  That would allow the GOP to save itself, as spineless bastards like John Barrasso realized that they had to save themselves, his primary instinct, and moved towards the middle.  Other GOP figures held captive by cowardice would as well. That would leave National Conservative chameleon J. D. Vance as President.  Vance is actually conservative, extremely so, but with some sort of a philosophy.  Trump is just about Trump.  Vance also has a survivors instinct.

But will that sort of majority happen by the end of the day?  Probably not.  

Recovery takes years for many things.  We are likely to start on that path today.  A lot of us won't be around anymore by the time we probably get there.  But a lot of us probably will.

04:10

The Tribune reports that 5,000 people have voted early in Natrona County.  Only 1,500 did in the last election.

Absentee ballots with a postmark no later than 7:00 p.m. today will be counted.  If races are close, this may make a difference.

04:37

The United States Supreme Court rejected a request to review a coup attempt on California's mail in ballots.  The coup working through the U.S. Attorney's office sought to require verification of citizenship for 20,000 California mail in ballots.

07:00

The polls in Wyoming are now open.

07:32

Wyoming Public Radio reports that absentee ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m., contrary to the item noted above.  I think this is correct.

14:19

Guam's non voting U.S. House delegate seat flipped from the GOP to the Democratic Party with Democrat Alicia Anne Garrido Limtiaco defeating incumbent James Moylan.  It appears the election for Governor flipped from Democratic to Republican, with the Republican Ada-Calvo team winning the race over the Democrat Terlaje-Perez team, although it's quite close and that result is uncertain.

While I hate to say it, neither result really matters much as Guam has no vote in Congress.  

15:01

Apparently Guam's representative can introduce bills, vote in committees, and offer amendments.

17:44

The inside news must be really bad for Republicans.  Trump is having a meltdown:

Trump cannot handle being blamed for failure, and yet he knows this is a referendum on him.  At the Oval Office he's clearly being told that this is going badly.

He's also unstable and has his hands on the nuclear trigger.  We're entering a very dangerous period.

18:00

First called race of the night, incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff retains his seat as senior Senator from Georgia.

I don't know if that's a surprise, or not, it's just the first to be called.

18:08

Incumbent Democrat Kathy Castor of Florida won the Florida 14th district which had been gerrymandered to favor Republicans.

If this trend holds, it's going to be an extremely bad night for Republicans.

November 4, 2026

Donald Trump leading the GOP into the 2026 midterms.

It was an outright slaughter of Republicans across the nation yesterday.

Donald Trump asked the nation to pretend he was on the ballot. They did. 

They completely rejected him, his cabinet, his family, his policies, and the Republican Party.

The slaughter was so vast it appears that even Trump won't attempt to challenge them.  He probably is aware doing so will result in his impeachment.

The Democrats flipped Senate seats in Maine, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alaska, and even Texas,  Susan Collins 30 year career in the Senate was put to an end.   Dr. Annie Andrews prevailed over the poorly chosen Senator Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.  Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won in Michigan.

Mississippi may be added to the toll, where as of this morning, only 50 votes separated what had been a safe Republican state.

 

In terms of Governor's races, which had been trending GOP for years, Democrats also reversed the tide. Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first black woman to be elected governor in U.S. history, taking Georgia. Gina Hinojosa ousted three term Trump lackey Gov. Greg Abbott.  Dr. Amy Acton became the first woman elected governor of Ohio.  The Democrats retook Nevada.

Locally, results were as predicted, but disappointing.

Harriet Hageman is now the incoming U.S. Senator.  Given Wyoming's history, she'll be able to retain the seat a decade after she's dead, as Wyoming reelects incumbents no matter how bad they are. So we replaced one bad Senator with an even worse one, based on her history as a Congressman.

Her challenger, Byrd, took about 35% of the vote, which was underperforming in my view.

Chuck Gray, who is widely despised, took the House, but in a closer race.  He still drew 55% of the vote, which is amazing.  Lisay Kinney underperformed at 34%.  Libertarian Johnson got the balance, 7.5%, vastly underperforming.  

All this shows how Republican Wyoming remains.  Wyomingites will blindly vote for the GOP candidate because he or she is the GOP candidate.

In terms of underperforming, Republican candidate Eric Barlow blew the doors off of carpetbagger Rebecca Bextel. Bextel did so badly that even the hopeless Democratic candidate took about the same number of votes that she did.

She should take that as a message.

Her Make Alabama Great again campaign did draw 17% o of the vote, to Casner's 15%.  Barlow took 69%.

This means the Constitution Party will qualify as a Major Party in the 2028 election.

Proposition 1 failed, a major victory for common sense and an additional rebuke to the Wyoming Freedom Caucus.

Democrats did pick up a State House seat in Laramie County.

In Natrona County people voted, apparently, for familiar names, even reelecting a 1,000 year old county commissioner and returning a 2,000 year old candidate to the Casper city council.

Turning back to the national results, Trump had the unmitigated gall to congratulate the Democrats and assumes they'll work with him. They ought to impeach him.

05:28

In really tight races, it looks like Cindy Holscher will become the Democratic Governor of Kansas and that Lauren Boebert has lost her seat in Congress.

06:31

Democrats took ever single statewide office in Georgia.

Every, single one.

To add to it, the winners were black Democrats.  This hasn't happened ever.

A political party that is morally and intellectually bankrupt deserves the rebuke of the American people.  

It is now time to make America good again.  

Republican Mayor Holt of Oklahoma City. 

Emergency Triad: MAGA Drowns Under a Blue Wave

Pop the champagne. Preserve the documents.

09:56

Mike Johnson, the worst Speaker of the House of all time, has indicated that he will not seek to be House Minority Leader in the 120th Congress.

Frankly I doubt anyone wants him as House Minority Leader. At this point, he should resign as Speaker.

10:46

Vance starts to break away.

Vance was always against Trump's war, but he needed Trump.  Now he doesn't.  He's trying to position himself for 2028.

November 5, 2026

Amy Klobuchar was elected Governor of Minnesota.

Democrat Britney Tennant Picks Up Cheyenne's House District 11

Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans Wins Reelection Against Outspoken Republican

That last headline should read "Outspoken Carpetbagging Republican from California who should go back to the Golden State".

Democratic Teton County Sheriff Matt Carr Wins By Huge Margin Amid Controversy

Bobo lost in Colorado to Eileen Laubacher, a retired two-star United States Navy rear admiral.

That last race is pretty symbolic of what just occurred this week.  White trash lost to education.

cont:

The reaction to Trump has been so large that suddenly conservative Democrats are back and have to be contended with.  The Blue Dog Caucus in Congress is back, now with 22 members.  In contrast the Democratic Socialist whom cause MAGA's to lose their bowels is a whopping six people.

This is really significant. Democrats are moving to the center. The Blue Dogs were always the center of reason in Congress.

November 6, 2026

The initiative to repeal Idaho's relatively strict ban on abortion failed.

For some reason, conservatives in Wyoming will not take on the initiative created statute on making your own "medical decisions" which is why Wyoming's abortion bans failed.  Idaho's result shows voters will in some cases support a strict ban.  Wyoming might as well find out if they will here.

November 8, 2026

• Arizona Senate and House: Democrats flipped the Arizona Senate and House, and they hold the governorship. It is the first time the party has had a trifecta in the state since the 1960s. 
• Georgia House: Flipped to Democrats, the first time they’ve held it since before the 2004 election. Democrats now hold the House and the governor’s office, moving from a Republican trifecta to a divided government.
• Minnesota House: Flipped to Democrats, after being tied between the two parties since the 2024 election. Democrats have regained their trifecta in the state.
• Michigan House: Flipped to Democrats. The Michigan Senate and the governor’s office were already controlled by Democrats, once again giving the party the trifecta that it lost in the 2024 election.
• New Hampshire House and Senate: Flipped to Democrats. With more than 400 seats in the New Hampshire House, the state often experiences swings from one party to another. Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) won re-election, moving the state from unified Republican to divided control.
• North Carolina House: Flipped to Democrats. Going into the election, Republicans were one seat short of a supermajority in the chamber. Gov. Josh Stein is a Democrat. 
• Pennsylvania Senate: Flipped to Democrats for the first time since before the 1994 elections. This gives Democrats a trifecta.
• Texas House: Democrats take the House for the first time since the 2002 election. Democrats hold the House and the governor’s office, while Republicans maintain control of the Senate.
• Wisconsin Senate and House: Both legislative chambers flipped from red to blue for the first time since 2010. The governor’s office stayed in Democratic hands as well, giving the state a Democratic trifecta.

Voters in 46 states chose 6,139 state legislators, deciding over 83% of all legislative seats nationwide. Washington, D.C., American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands also elected 157 legislators.  

Note that the Texas House flipped.  The Republicans really took a pounding in Texas.

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