Democrats absolutely crushed Republicans during the US midterm elections. I saw that it was the biggest electoral win since 1974. Texas is blue! Not just one position in Texas either — the governor is now a Democrat, a Democrat was elected to the US Senate, and the whole Texas legislature swung blue! 🌊 Kansas elected a Democrat for the Senate for the first time since 1932!

I’m sure there are many detailed analyses we can all read in coming weeks and months on how this happened, but here are a few obvious reasons the election ended up being so blue:

Surprise, surprise — all of that has led to Republicans staying home, swing voters swinging blue, and Democrats coming out en force.

Not much of this has been driven by a focus on the climate or clean energy. Though, it does play a notable role since solar power and wind power drive down costs, but Trump keeps fighting them — illegally at times. Also, he has wasted billions of dollars paying companies to not turn on wind farms they’ve built! It is just pure fiscal irresponsibility. Overall, though, people were voting directly on climate and cleantech issues, even though Trump’s policies and international politics have been harmful on those matters and come with significant costs as well.

Now that Democrats have won Congress, and have won by a landslide or a big blue wave, they do have power, influence, and the initiative to drive affordable clean energy forward. Strengthen regulations again that help move us to cheaper, cleaner energy and cars, or push for that.

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