Thursday, November 12, 2026
PMT: The most shocking result of them all
There were a lot of shocking results of the mid-term elections on November 3:
-- Texas voted Democrats in as Governor, US Senator, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and as a majority of the state House.
-- Kansas elected Democrats as US Senator and as Governor.
-- South Carolina elected a Democrat as US Senator and flipped a US House seat.
But of them all, the most surprising just became final yesterday: Mississippi-- Mississippi!-- elected a Democrat as US Senator, perhaps the most surprising result from that region since Doug Jones was elected Senator from Alabama in 2018. Scott Colom's win over Cindy Hyde-Smith was by a hairsbreadth, but that was enough.
It could take a while to unpack what that means, but one thing we know is that Georgia and Mississippi now have two Black Democrats as Senator-- something that seemed very unlikely very recently.
