Today's Cheap Shots

I check in with Bill Maher every once in a while - and pretty much every time, I'm reminded why it was a good decision to drop cable.

• This was the first time a Dem got re-elected NJ Gov in 45 years
• This was the first time since Reagan that the party in the White House didn't lose both VA & NJ in their 1st term
• Democrats picked up a seat in Ohio
• Democrats won pretty big in Georgia - again
• Democrats won at the county level in a lot of places, including Virginia
• A Democrat won NYC Mayor
• and and and

Politics is a brick fight, dressed up and pretending to be a covered dish supper at church.

And there's no doubt the Dems got their nose bloodied, but this knee-jerk doom-n-gloom is the standard formulaic junk that the Press Poodles barf up on a regular basis. It's disingenuous and intellectually lazy. But it sells lotsa dick pills and tactical flashlights, so hey - it's all about the eyeballs, right?

The bean-counters are driving this bus, and they don't care if it's true or not - they're busy worrying about the analytics.