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You don't think some R Senators who just saw their counterpart get trounced last night will be thinking about their own reelection when casting a vote?
No. I've lived in Kentucky, Alabama and Florida. Their senate candidates shrugged off the blue wave.
Alabama and Florida in particular are just fucking stupid.
None of those states flipped a Senate seat yesterday. Both the Carolinas, Kansas, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, and Texas all flipped a seat, with 5-20 point victories. Nevada didn't have a Senator on the ballot but the governor's office flipped. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that some of the incumbents from those states will shift some of their votes in the wake of yesterday's results.
There were no slim margins yesterday. For the most part nothing was neck and neck, and that's after all their redistricting and ratfuckery. People are pissed.
And I'm telling you that is a delusion.
You really need to live in the south for a decade or so to realize just how nuts they are.
I'm from Texas and have lived here for 30+ years.
Texas is not Alabama. And they just proved it with a vote.
Meanwhile Alabama just proved they are not Texas by voting pure red.
Yes, continue citing a state that did not flip any statewide seats as a rebuttal to the possible future actions of statewide office holders in other states where other statewide offices were flipped. perhaps you'd also like to convince me that my friend in Arizona won't like switching from English breakfast tea to Irish breakfast tea because you only have coffee in Louisiana.
I cite it because I lived there for decades and saw it retreat farther into the republican camp.
Just as you cite Texas as it rejects the republicans.
Not everyplace is the same
My dude that is my fucking point. Ohio and Kansas are not Alabama! The elections in those states booted at least one statewide Republican last night, which did not happen in Alabama. So perhaps you could recognize that it's not delusional to think that the surviving statewide Republicans in Ohio and Kansas, neither of which are Alabama, might respond differently to the staunch and safe Republicans in Alabama, perhaps even to the point of voting less staunchly Republican in the next two years so as to bring back some of the formerly Republican voters who broke Democratic last night.