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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

A blue wave or a blue ripple

Friday, November 9, 2018

Many people are saying the Democrats didn’t get the blue wave on Tuesday they were hoping for but I disagree. Before the election, most Democrats and a lot of Republicans agreed that the Democrats had a good chance of taking back the House of Representatives and the Republicans would most likely hold on to the Senate. That’s exactly what happened. In fact, the numbers were like a Blue wave. 32 seats were flipped by Democrats and only 3 by Republicans. That’s fairly significant. The results showed House Democrats with 223 seats, several more than they needed to retake control.

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