Hi there everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York in the end it just goes to show once again that no one, not the pollsters, not the pundits,

not the t-v anchors, not even the candidates themselves can really ever understand what is in the

hearts and minds of voters until the moment they vote and their ballots are counted?

What matters to them and what doesn't?

And that moment of clarity is right now.

Because last night contrary to what many people were led to believe Americans across

the country propelled Democrats to what may have been the most consequential

political achievement for the Democratic Party since the day Joe Biden was

elected.

Voters injected rocket fuel directly into the party's bloodstream,

electing Democratic candidates and advancing a number of their key policy positions.

In Kentucky, a governor's race once projected to be a very close one was not.

Incumbent Democrat Andy Bashir won a second term by a six-point margin margin a wider one than his last time around in a

state that Donald Trump won by 26 points in Virginia.

NBC News projects the Democrats retained control of the state Senate and actually flipped

its House of Delegates. So now Republican Governor Glenn Yunken he's the best guy

the conservative poster boy generating national buzz

will wrestle with two chambers controlled by the Democratic Party

over matters of gun safety, voting rights,

and the issue that defined that race and others'

reproductive freedom.

Nowhere was that more pronounced than in the state of Ohio.

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