Well...

...it's not as big as I'd hoped, but the outcome is grounds for informed hope about the future.

Now, to keep building on that.

As for my side of the border, we've got to make sure that we arrest our own backsliding. Losing the Ontario and Québec legislatures was bad enough...

Good News Hidden Amongst the Madness

Quoting from the article by Hilary Brueck and Peter Kotecki that you're about to read in full:

On Tuesday, at least eight new science-credentialed candidates were elected: one senator and seven members of the House. Full results are not yet available in Washington state, where a pediatrician is likely to be elected to the House.

The members of the 115th Congress include one physicist, one microbiologist, and one chemist, as well as eight engineers and one mathematician. The medical professions are slightly better represented, with three nurses and 15 doctors.

The new winners will bolster those science ranks. The Democratic candidates who won all ran successful campaigns with the support of a nonprofit political-action committee called 314 Action, which started in 2016 and is dedicated to recruiting, training, and funding scientists and healthcare workers who want to run for political office. (One Republican engineer-turned-businessman won a race in Oklahoma, without support from the PAC.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/2018-midterms-8-new-scientists-elected-to-house-senate-2018-11