The blue wave looks real until you look a little closer

It’s like watching some sci-fi game with players competing on 470 different fields.

Which is your basic definition of crazytown.

No human being, without mainlining AI into his or her arm, could possibly track so many contests, so we bounce from one race to the next, with buzzers and bells, like a pinball machine.

Look! Charlie Cook is moving 18 House races in the Democrats’ favor! This is o-vah! The blue wave is getting stronger.

Put a cork in this one, it’s done! But wait a minute.

The Republicans have a huge cash advantage.

Big-time Democratic donors, for whatever reason, are sitting on their checkbooks.

Don’t they realize the stakes? Are they all blinded by the sun on their private islands? There seems to be a consensus, even privately among Republicans, that the Dems will take the House.

The only question is the margin.

So we all wind-surf across the Senate race, even if we know little more than what we read that morning in Politico, or the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.

The GOP just sent another $30 million to Ken Paxton , the Texas Republican who has more baggage than a 747. (Being impeached by your own party doesn’t help.) He was caught on audio saying "everybody’s numbers dropped" after President Trump’s midterm convention.

Even Trump calls him "a pain in the *ss sometimes." And this is the guy they want to win? DEMOCRATS THINK A BLUE WAVE IS BUILDING.

HERE ARE 3 FORCES THAT COULD STOP IT His Democratic opponent, James Talarico, went into hiding–what’s up with that? Turns out he had a nasty case of the flu.

Still, it’s Texas, the Lone Star State, where Democratic dreams go to die.