I knew Adam Hamilton was on the up when I went to Kansas last month and found that middle-aged white women who smoke had joined his coalition—which is “not nothing in this country,” as I wrote at the time.
Obviously, I was correct, because Hamilton won his election Tuesday and flipped his seat from red to blue. So did a few other Democrats I wrote about this election cycle, including Senator-elect James Talarico in Texas as well as House winners Sarah Trone Garriott in Iowa, Sam Forstag in Montana, and Bob Brooks in Pennsylvania. Democrats snagged many other big pickups too: from Annie Andrews, who won the South Carolina Senate race, to Josh Turek, who won the Iowa Senate race, to Gina Hinojosa, who will be the next governor of Texas.
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