The Gods Must be Crazy: Democrats took control of the House in midterm elections yesterday and Republicans added seats to their Senate majority.

Texas voters demonstrated how much they hate their Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, but re-elected him anyway. Two Muslim women were elected to Congress. Florida voters decided to restore the vote to 1.5 million convicted felons, but chose a tough-on-crime governor and a senator. Massachusetts elected nine Democratic members of Congress and a Republican governor.

As you sort it out, one thing is clear. The Blue Wave hoped for by Democrats unhappy with the Trump regime was more of a boat wake.

The wave was really the election of women and minorities.

Our bellwhether pick for the House, Democrat Antonio Delgado, won New York’s 19^thDistrict from incumbent John Faso by two percentage points. That’s big.

The Democrats needed 23 seats to take the House and won just 26. By comparison the Republicans picked up 63 seats from voters unhappy with President Barack Obama.

As largely predicted, Republicans strengthened their hold on the Senate adding two seats to their majority. Incumbent Democrats Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Indiana’s Joe Donnelly, and North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp all were swept out. They all had opposed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Beto O’Rourke, the new darling of the left, lost to Texas incumbent Ted Cruz by almost three points. In deep red Texas, you can read that as a repudiation of the incumbent. It’s still too close to call in Florida between incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Rick Scott, but Nelson appears to be losing.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on CBS, “I think three things helped us in the red states held by Democrats. Kavanaugh united our party, the caravan was seen as sort of an assault on our sovereignty and the good economic news all combined to be really bad news for red-state Democrats.”

Sister Mary-Margaret Tells You What it Means: President Trump may very well shake up his administration quickly after the election. Watch what happens to Jeff Sessions, the attorney general he regrets appointing.

Republicans will be able to keep packing the federal courts with like-minded judges.

House Democrats will have the power to stall the Republican agenda as well as investigate the President and his associates. They may even make a play to get hold of his tax returns. But with strength comes weakness. They will probably come under pressure to approve President trump’s southern border wall in exchange for the young illegal immigrants known as Dreamers being allowed to stay in the country.

The Statehouse: Democrats gained seven governor’s offices. The count this morning is 22 Democratic governors and 25 Republican.

Wisconsin turned out Republican Scott Walker, the anti-labor pro-Trump governor.

It’s  still too close to call in Georgia where Stacey Abrams had Oprah  Winfrey knocking on doors.

In Kansas, Kris Kobach, who led President Trump’s snipe hunt for voter fraud, lost to a Democrat by a resounding for points. There must have been millions of illegal votes

On the Ballot: Michigan, North Dakota, and Missouri voted to legalize marijuana. Voters in Alabama and West Virginia decided that a woman has no right to an abortion.

Ink Stained: Hours before winning a ninth term in Congress, embattled Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King barred the Des Moines Register from covering his election night event, calling the paper a “leftist propaganda media outlet.”

King has said some shaky things about race and immigration and has failed to distance himself from white nationalists. Monday he said he hopes Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor “will elope to Cuba.”He’s that kind of guy.

King’s son Jeff sent an email saying, “We are not granting credentials to the Des Moines Register or any other leftist propaganda media outlet with no concern for reporting the truth.”  King won and the Register’s opinion editors declared in a headline,  “Iowa’s national embarrassment continues, for now, as Steve King wins.”

Dog Catcher: Kim Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, Ky., who famously refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples even though it was legal, was voted out in favor of a Democrat.

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