Good News from yesterday's election.

[Angrboda]

I'm glad that one of those Muslim women, Ilhan Omar, was elected in my state. I had something to do with that. However, I didn't vote for her in the primary, but rather for a more moderate Democrat, Margaret Anderson Kelliher. While I agree with Ilhan Omar on a lot of issues, I thought she was too far to the left, and that would hurt her chances at election and her ability to get things done in Washington. We'll see about the latter, but in this election, a lot of candidates won on very progressive platforms. This seems to indicate that Democrats as a whole are becoming more progressive rather than keeping to the center in order to win elections. I have to wonder if that isn't a window into 2020, when we can possibly expect a true liberal to emerge in the presidential primaries. The next two years of Democrat control of the house will likely have a lot to do with whether that comes to pass or not. I suspect that legislation and the federal government will shift toward the center as a result, and that contentious fights between the two parties will be the norm. That could set the stage for a candidate who is more centrist than those that Democrats are electing this year.