Bearish Beyond The 'Blue Wave' Bounce Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Well, the voters have spoken. Screamed, actually. And if last night’s election results were supposed to provide some kind of reprieve for the Trump administration, they did precisely the opposite.
Democrats delivered a decisive, sweeping victory, taking control of both the House and Senate and flipping seats in places Republicans have considered safe for generations . “Democrats are on track to win the largest House majority since 2008, when they won 257 seats,” Alicia Parlapiano of the New York Times wrote this morning.
Chart: NY Times Perhaps most remarkable was Texas, where Democrats captured the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat, an extraordinary political development in a state that has become central to the country’s energy, technology and industrial infrastructure.